G            D            G
Looking at a picture of a bird
                 D               C
From a series of books about the sea

And the life above and in it
        Bb                G
Looking at a picture of a bird

[Verse 1]
                D        G
Staring out the window
               D          C
Of an elevated train in a storm

Of blossoms and debris
            Bb          G
Staring out the window

             D         G
Looking at a jumble of words
                        D             C
From something that you once wrote to me

You said, "I'll never leave"
                     Bb             G
Still you're looking at the jumble

[Bridge]
Em

                                   G    Em
Everybody's gotten their hearts burnt
                                   G      C
From the turnpikes to the mud roads
                                A         C
They got nothing left to die for
                                     D
And they got nothing left to run from


[Verse 2]
G

                 D           G
Heading past the ring road
                       D             C
To the place where you came from you see

It's not your destiny
                     Bb                C   G
Still you're heading past the ring road

             D        G
Looking into windows
                 D           C
People got their fires lit today

Gonna find your own cave
                        Bb             C  G
Where you'll be looking at a picture of a bird


[Chorus]
             D            G
Looking at a picture of a bird
                 D               C
From a series of books about the sea

And life above and in
           Bb          C  G
Looking at a picture of a bird