Newcomb - Empty Birdcage Chords & Tabs
Newcomb - Empty Birdcage Chords
'Empty Birdcage' Written and Tabbed by Noah Newcomb
Capo on 2nd
Mostly strum - DDDUD - switching chords on the last down.
Intro: E G C D
G C E
You’re not deserving
A E
just standing there
G D C
watching your friend burning
E
it's alright
C D
they couldn't put up much of a fight,
G
anyways,
C E C G
they still loved you until the end.
E C G
It's sad that they've left the Birdcage
E G C C D
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G E C G
And nothing's sadder than an Empty Birdcage
G D C
there's nothing flimsier than a promise
G E
from the escapee
G
I don't know,
E
Maybe,
C
they've changed
G E C
it isn't all that strange
G E
the ones you held
C G E
chose to meld into the background, and
D C G
they refused to make a single sound
E C G
lest they be found, and forced
G C
into the Empty Birdcage
E G C C D
G E C
And you're not deserving, to watch
G C
these fields turning.
E
It's alright
C G
you'll return them tonight
C G C D
An Empty Birdcage, is all you've left.
E G
They were never your friends
E Am
they lied to live,
C G
biding time, to survive
G C
until they left the Birdcage.
E E G G C D D
G E C G
And nothing's sadder than the Empty Birdcage
G D C
and nothing's flimsier than a promise
G C
from the escapee.
G
I don't know,
E
maybe,
C G D
you've changed, able to rearrange
E Am
the feeling, you'd been wishing the world to burn
C G
in the Empty Birdcage
E E C C G D D
G G
They loved you until the end.
