Biography:
Josh Pyke (born 18 December 1977 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriting musician. His albums include Memories & Dust (2007), Chimney's Afire (2008), Only Sparrows (2011).
It didn't take long before Josh's unique voice and song writing style, influenced by the likes of Elliott Smith, Evan Dando, and Sparklehorse, began to find favour amongst music tastemakers, critics and Triple J listeners. The first taste, the assured 'Kids Don't Sell Their Hopes So Fast'
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Other songs:
- Love Lies
- Memories And Dust
- Silver
- The Lighthouse Song
- Beg Your Pardon
- Book Of Revelations
- Buttons
- Candle In Your Window
- Chimneys Afire
- Covers Are Thrown
- Diet Of Worms
- Doing What Youre Told
- Endless Summer
- Fed And Watered
- Fill You In
- Forever Song
- Goldmines
- Good Head Start
- Hollering Hearts
- House At Pooh Corner
- Leeward Side
- Lighthouse Song
- Lines On Palms
- Make You Happy
- Middle Of The Hill
- Momentary Glow
- New Years Song
- Private Education
- Punch In The Heart
- Sew My Name
- Staring Down The Sun
- Still Some Big Deal
- The Beginning And The End Of Everything
- The Best Man At Your First Loves Wedding
- The Doldrums
- The Summer
- Theres A Line
- Vibration In Air
- Vibrations In Air
- When Your Colours Go
- Where Two Oceans Meet
- Wuthering Heights
- You Dont Scare Me
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Chords:
A5 5770xx
B5 x2440x
C5 x3550x
D5 x5770x
G5 3550xx
Em 0220xx
B7 x212xx
D/F# 200xxx
E5 x7990x
[Intro]
A5 B5 C5 D5
[Verse 1]
A5 B5 C5
In my mind, not enough birds have died
D5 A5
In the shadow of this once cast stone
B5 C5
And I'm not unwell, but I am ill at ease
D5 A5
With all the buttons still left to sew
B5 C5 D5 A5 B5
Through needles eyes, see me sharper than I see myself
[Refrain]
G5 D5 A5 C5
So you should stitch me in to stop me from bleeding
[Verse 2]
A5 B5 C5
And education can be fickle I think
D5
Sometimes the more you learn
A5 B5 C5
The more you lose a sense of what you think you know
D5 A5
About all the buttons still left to sew
B5 C5 D5 A5 B5
And I'm outside myself more and more these days
[Refrain]
G5 D5 A5 C5
So you should stitch my skin to stop me from bleeding
A5
All over this fresh song and I
C5
Acknowledge all the corners
G5 D5 A5 C5
And all the freshly painted walls, that bear no former scars
A5
Since they're patched up and over now
C5
But I was born of miners
G5 D5 A5 C5 B5
And I'm designed to chip away, tunnel into the dark
[Chorus]
C5 G5 D5
But why must it always come down to some unseen contender?
A5 B5 C5
I don't know
G5 D5 A5
When hatchlings all we are just battling the whitewash birds above
B5 C5
Sharks below
G5 D5
Though I feel empathy towards the ones who threaten me
A5 B5 C5 B5
I'd still leave them soft-shelled to the beaks of crows
[Bridge]
Em G5
But every now and then a tempest blows
Em B7
And the veneer I keep becomes unsewn
C5 G5
But will you ever read me well?
C5
I can only assume so
Em G5
And I'm buoyant like a flotsam man
Em B7
Relegated by the waves to land
C5 G5
They dry me like a brittle bone
C5 A5 C5 D/F# G5 D5 A5 E5 Em D/F#
Paraded like a polished stone
[Chorus]
C5 G5 D5 A5
But why must it always come down to some unseen contender?
Em D/F# C5
I don't know
G5 D5 A5 Em
When hatchlings all we are just battling the whitewash birds above
D/F# C5
Sharks below
G5 D5 A5
Though I feel empathy towards the ones who threaten me
Em D/F# C5 G5 A5 Em D/F#
I'd still leave them soft-shelled to the beaks of crows
[Chorus]
C5 G5 D5 A5
But why must it always come down to some unseen contender?
Em D/F# C5
I don't know
G5 D5 A5 Em
When hatchlings all we are just battling the whitewash birds above
D/F# C5
Sharks below
G5 D5 A5
Though I feel empathy towards the ones who threaten me
Em D/F# C5 G5 D5 A5 Em
I'd still leave them soft-shelled to the beaks of crows
D/F# C5 G5 D5 A5 Em
And that's what you ought to know
D/F# C5 G5 D5 A5 Em D/F# C5 D/F# G5 D5 A5 Em
I'd see them smashed on the reefs below
A5 5770xx
B5 x2440x
C5 x3550x
D5 x5770x
G5 3550xx
Em 0220xx
B7 x212xx
D/F# 200xxx
E5 x7990x
[Intro]
A5 B5 C5 D5
[Verse 1]
A5 B5 C5
In my mind, not enough birds have died
D5 A5
In the shadow of this once cast stone
B5 C5
And I'm not unwell, but I am ill at ease
D5 A5
With all the buttons still left to sew
B5 C5 D5 A5 B5
Through needles eyes, see me sharper than I see myself
[Refrain]
G5 D5 A5 C5
So you should stitch me in to stop me from bleeding
[Verse 2]
A5 B5 C5
And education can be fickle I think
D5
Sometimes the more you learn
A5 B5 C5
The more you lose a sense of what you think you know
D5 A5
About all the buttons still left to sew
B5 C5 D5 A5 B5
And I'm outside myself more and more these days
[Refrain]
G5 D5 A5 C5
So you should stitch my skin to stop me from bleeding
A5
All over this fresh song and I
C5
Acknowledge all the corners
G5 D5 A5 C5
And all the freshly painted walls, that bear no former scars
A5
Since they're patched up and over now
C5
But I was born of miners
G5 D5 A5 C5 B5
And I'm designed to chip away, tunnel into the dark
[Chorus]
C5 G5 D5
But why must it always come down to some unseen contender?
A5 B5 C5
I don't know
G5 D5 A5
When hatchlings all we are just battling the whitewash birds above
B5 C5
Sharks below
G5 D5
Though I feel empathy towards the ones who threaten me
A5 B5 C5 B5
I'd still leave them soft-shelled to the beaks of crows
[Bridge]
Em G5
But every now and then a tempest blows
Em B7
And the veneer I keep becomes unsewn
C5 G5
But will you ever read me well?
C5
I can only assume so
Em G5
And I'm buoyant like a flotsam man
Em B7
Relegated by the waves to land
C5 G5
They dry me like a brittle bone
C5 A5 C5 D/F# G5 D5 A5 E5 Em D/F#
Paraded like a polished stone
[Chorus]
C5 G5 D5 A5
But why must it always come down to some unseen contender?
Em D/F# C5
I don't know
G5 D5 A5 Em
When hatchlings all we are just battling the whitewash birds above
D/F# C5
Sharks below
G5 D5 A5
Though I feel empathy towards the ones who threaten me
Em D/F# C5 G5 A5 Em D/F#
I'd still leave them soft-shelled to the beaks of crows
[Chorus]
C5 G5 D5 A5
But why must it always come down to some unseen contender?
Em D/F# C5
I don't know
G5 D5 A5 Em
When hatchlings all we are just battling the whitewash birds above
D/F# C5
Sharks below
G5 D5 A5
Though I feel empathy towards the ones who threaten me
Em D/F# C5 G5 D5 A5 Em
I'd still leave them soft-shelled to the beaks of crows
D/F# C5 G5 D5 A5 Em
And that's what you ought to know
D/F# C5 G5 D5 A5 Em D/F# C5 D/F# G5 D5 A5 Em
I'd see them smashed on the reefs below
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