Biography:
Andrew Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician. He was born in Lake Bluff, Illinois and resides in the Chicago area. Bird is a singer, a violinist and, since 2004, a guitarist. He is also an accomplished whistler.
His early work, which echoed gypsy jazz and traditional folk, has led into his current sound, which mixes rock with more broad compositions. His years of solo song-craft have now enabled him to produce a sound that is uniquely his own.
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Other songs:
- Action/adventure
- Anonanimal
- Are You Serious
- Capsized
- Cataracts
- Dyin' Bedmaker
- Fatal Shore
- Gotholympians
- Lull
- Manifest
- Masters Warm
- Measuring Cups
- Meet Me Here At Dawn
- Oh No
- Orpheo Looks Back
- Pulaski
- Pulaski At Night
- Something Biblical
- Spare Ohs
- Tea And Thorazine
- Three White Horses
- Why?
- Heretics
- 1111
- A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left
- Action Adventure
- Armchairs
- Banking On A Myth
- Bloodless
- Candy Shop
- Case In Point
- Cathedral In The Dell
- Chemical Switches
- Dark Matter
- Darkmatter
- Dear Old Greenland
- Desperation Breeds
- Dont Be Scared
- Dora Goes To Town
- Drunk By Noon
- Effigy
- Fake Palindromes
- Far From Any Road
- Fatal Flower Garden
- Fiery Crash
- Fitz And The Dizzyspells
- Frogs Singing
- Giant Of Illinois
- Give It Away
- Glass Figurine
- Headsoak
- How You Gonna Keep Em Down On The Farm
- If I Needed You
- Imitosis
- Lazy Projector
- Left Handed Kisses
- Lusitania
- Masterfade
- Masterswarm
- Mx Missiles
- Mx Missles
- My Sisters Tiny Hands
- Near Death Experience Experience
- Nomenclature
- Not A Robot But A Ghost
- Nuthinduan Waltz
- Oh Sister
- Opposite Day
- Orpheo
- Plasticities
- Puma
- Railroad Bill
- Richmond Woman
- Roma Fade
- Scythian Empire
- Scythian Empires
- Section 8 City
- Sisyphus
- So Much Wine
- Soldier On
- Some Of These Days
- Souverian
- Spare
- Spirograph
- Sweetbreads
- Tables And Chairs
- Take Courage
- Tenuousness
- The Naming Of Things
- The New Saint Jude
- The Privateers
- The Sad Milkman
- Tin Foil
- Tin Foiled
- Too Long
- Truth Lies Low
- Twistable Turnable Man
- Two Way Action
- Valleys Of The Young
- Wait
- When That Helicopter Comes
- Why
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[Intro]
Bb D Em D Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm D
Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em
[Verse 1]
A Em A Bm Em
They're profiting from your worry
D Em Bm Em
They're selling blanks down at the DMZ
A F# D
They're banking on the sound and fury
Em A Em A C
Makes you wonder what it all's got to do with me
[Bridge]
Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em
Bloodless for now
[Verse 2]
Bm A D Em
I'm keeping mine with the altruists
D G Em Bm Em
I'm putting my weight behind the dancer
G Bm Em A F C
I know it's hard to be an optimist
Em C F
When you trust least the ones who claim to have the answers
D G C
And it's an uncivil war
G C
It's an uncivil war
G Bb C
It's an uncivil war
[Bridge]
A
Bloodless for now
[Chorus]
D
And the poets they explode like bombs
A
Bloodless for now
Bm D
While the gentry is drinking Moet Chandon
A
Bloodless for now
D
Turn around and quote a well known psalm:
G C
Don't you worry 'bout the wicked
G C G
Don't you envy those who do wrong
C
And your innocence will be like the dawn
G C G
While the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun
[Instrumental]
Em F#m G Em F#m G
Em F#m Em Bm
Em F#m G Bm
Em Bm Em A Bm
Em F#m G Bm Em Bm A
Em Bm Em Bm Em G
Bm
[Verse 3]
Em Bm Em Bm
Well, the best, have lost their convictions
Em Bm
And the worst keep
A G Em
Sharpening their claws
A Em C F
They're peddling in their dark fictions
Em Bm C
While what's left of us, well, we just hem and we haw
G F C
And it feels like 1936
G Bb C
In Catalonia
G Bb C
In Catalonia
[Bridge]
A C D
Bloodless for now
[Whistle]
Bm F A D
[Bridge]
A
Bloodless for now
[Chorus]
D
And the poets they explode like bombs
A
Bloodless for now
Bm D
While the gentry is drinking Moet Chandon
A
Bloodless for now
D
Turn around and quote a well known psalm:
G C
Don't you worry 'bout the wicked
G C G
Don't you envy those who do wrong
C
And your innocence will be like the dawn
G C G Em Bm
While the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun
[End]
Em Bm Em Bm
repeat till fade
Bb D Em D Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm D
Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em
[Verse 1]
A Em A Bm Em
They're profiting from your worry
D Em Bm Em
They're selling blanks down at the DMZ
A F# D
They're banking on the sound and fury
Em A Em A C
Makes you wonder what it all's got to do with me
[Bridge]
Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em Bm Em
Bloodless for now
[Verse 2]
Bm A D Em
I'm keeping mine with the altruists
D G Em Bm Em
I'm putting my weight behind the dancer
G Bm Em A F C
I know it's hard to be an optimist
Em C F
When you trust least the ones who claim to have the answers
D G C
And it's an uncivil war
G C
It's an uncivil war
G Bb C
It's an uncivil war
[Bridge]
A
Bloodless for now
[Chorus]
D
And the poets they explode like bombs
A
Bloodless for now
Bm D
While the gentry is drinking Moet Chandon
A
Bloodless for now
D
Turn around and quote a well known psalm:
G C
Don't you worry 'bout the wicked
G C G
Don't you envy those who do wrong
C
And your innocence will be like the dawn
G C G
While the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun
[Instrumental]
Em F#m G Em F#m G
Em F#m Em Bm
Em F#m G Bm
Em Bm Em A Bm
Em F#m G Bm Em Bm A
Em Bm Em Bm Em G
Bm
[Verse 3]
Em Bm Em Bm
Well, the best, have lost their convictions
Em Bm
And the worst keep
A G Em
Sharpening their claws
A Em C F
They're peddling in their dark fictions
Em Bm C
While what's left of us, well, we just hem and we haw
G F C
And it feels like 1936
G Bb C
In Catalonia
G Bb C
In Catalonia
[Bridge]
A C D
Bloodless for now
[Whistle]
Bm F A D
[Bridge]
A
Bloodless for now
[Chorus]
D
And the poets they explode like bombs
A
Bloodless for now
Bm D
While the gentry is drinking Moet Chandon
A
Bloodless for now
D
Turn around and quote a well known psalm:
G C
Don't you worry 'bout the wicked
G C G
Don't you envy those who do wrong
C
And your innocence will be like the dawn
G C G Em Bm
While the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun
[End]
Em Bm Em Bm
repeat till fade
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