(intro)
AEAEAEAEFDFDBFAEAEAEAEA
All nineteen birds flying fast up
EAEBFE
They are dead they are not alive
AEAEA
Bad bird you flap off you beak
EAEBE#
High and mighty beady bird eye
ADFGA
Featherless me and I be all glad on my own
DFGD#
Doggy-eyed graceless in my home
G#C#
Steps in wire
F#BEAE
High and mighty beady bird eye
BFE
They're not alive
AEAEAE
They eat no love, they curl up in their hollow tree
AEBF#AE
And leak the sap that bad birds do
BFAEAEADFGA
Poison in the drops of black and white pearl
DFGD#
On the 'leaving the cinema' girl
G#C#
Steps in wire
F#BEAE
High and mighty beady bird eye
BFE
They're not alive
BFAEAEABCE
Don't linger on not pure gold in your hand
ABCE
And fly again to the end of England
C#G#BF#DFBA#F#
Sad birds flying through the famous London fog
A#F#A#F#
There is no God
BF#AEE
There is no 'alive'
BF#E
In my menagerie
(repeat chords x6)
ABCEC#G#BF#DFB
Sad birds they are not alive
A#F#A#F#
Nineteen birds flying fast up
A#F#BF#AE
They are not alive
BFE
They're not alive
BFE
They're not alive
BFAEAEBF#AEAE
(chords repeat - fade out)