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]
G G/F# C G
[Chorus]
G
Do you need a reason
G/F#
We should commit treason
C G
And bring into this world a son
C
And leave the valleys of the young
G
Valleys of the young
C G
Valleys of brunch and tedium
[Verse 1]
Am D
Well, your friends will become strange to you
G
Just as you will become strange to them
C
You'll live across a great divide
Am D
And the problems that seem like luxuries
G
They're off getting stoned and hugging trees
C G Am
All the things you'll be forsaking
D
Still our hearts are constantly breaking
F C G
From their cradle to our grave
F C G
Is it selfish, or is it brave?
[Pre-Chorus]
F C G
Nana nanananana
G/F#
Nananana
C G
Nananana nana na
[Break]
C G C G
[Instrumental Verse]
Am D G C G
Am D
F C G
F C
[Chorus]
G G/F#
Do you need a reason we've
C G
Been making all to become three
C
And believe in this holy valley
G
Land of brunch and misery
C
I'm living on
G
The valleys of the young
[Verse]
Am D
Now you're going on 64
G
Driving down 65, to the hospital
C G Am
To see if your adult son will survive or not
D
After taking those pills in the parking lot
G
You know the one behind the Marriott
C G
This is a dream you won't be waking
Am D
Still our hearts are constantly breaking
F C G
From their cradle to our grave
F C G
Is it selfish, is it brave?
F C G
From their cradle to our grave
F C G
Is it selfish or is it brave?
[Outro]
F C G (x4)
C F G (repeat and fade)
G G/F# C G
[Chorus]
G
Do you need a reason
G/F#
We should commit treason
C G
And bring into this world a son
C
And leave the valleys of the young
G
Valleys of the young
C G
Valleys of brunch and tedium
[Verse 1]
Am D
Well, your friends will become strange to you
G
Just as you will become strange to them
C
You'll live across a great divide
Am D
And the problems that seem like luxuries
G
They're off getting stoned and hugging trees
C G Am
All the things you'll be forsaking
D
Still our hearts are constantly breaking
F C G
From their cradle to our grave
F C G
Is it selfish, or is it brave?
[Pre-Chorus]
F C G
Nana nanananana
G/F#
Nananana
C G
Nananana nana na
[Break]
C G C G
[Instrumental Verse]
Am D G C G
Am D
F C G
F C
[Chorus]
G G/F#
Do you need a reason we've
C G
Been making all to become three
C
And believe in this holy valley
G
Land of brunch and misery
C
I'm living on
G
The valleys of the young
[Verse]
Am D
Now you're going on 64
G
Driving down 65, to the hospital
C G Am
To see if your adult son will survive or not
D
After taking those pills in the parking lot
G
You know the one behind the Marriott
C G
This is a dream you won't be waking
Am D
Still our hearts are constantly breaking
F C G
From their cradle to our grave
F C G
Is it selfish, is it brave?
F C G
From their cradle to our grave
F C G
Is it selfish or is it brave?
[Outro]
F C G (x4)
C F G (repeat and fade)
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