Big Bird

  C
I'm afraid of the way I live my 
life.
    Am
I'm afraid of the way I don't.
    F                      G      
I'm afraid of the things I want to
          C
 do but I won't.
    C
I'm afraid of God.
                              A
I'm afraid to believe and I'm afraid
 of all the loved ones that I've 
made leave.
    F                          G  
I'm afraid that my dog doesn't 
     C
love me anymore.

[Verse 1]
    C                            
I'm afraid of the social laziness 
          Am
that let Kitty Genovese die.
        F                 G       
And I'm afraid of the mob 
             C
mentality that makes otherwise 
normal people go blind.
    C                              
I'm afraid of the way that the 
                Am
world works and I'm afraid of the 
words in my notebooks.
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    F                        G    
I'm afraid that you all know that 
       C
I am a pervert.

[Chorus 1]
                F              
But the big red bird that lives 
           G
under the city
        Am          C             
doesn't give a damn about me and 
             F
it dies every night.
           Dm
By burning alive.

[Verse 2]
    C
I'm afraid of my grandfathers 
cancer.
        Am
And I'm afraid of my mom's dying 
arm.
    F                        G    
I'm afraid that I've somehow 
            C
caused my family harm.
    C                          
I'm afraid that the ones I love 
             Am
won't have enough.
    F                      G  
I'm afraid that the ones I love 
              Am
won't have enough.

[Bridge]
     F            G                
It's harder to be yourself than it 
Am
is to be anybody else.
F               G                
I wish I were a little less of a 
Am                     F
coward but the big red bird that 
lives under
    G
the city
        Am                         
doesn't give a damn about me and it
            F
 dies every night.
              Dm
So I bought a knife.
       C
I am a knife.