As The Crow Flies

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[Verse 1]

C                   F       C
When that bird fell from its nest,
Am                F     C
Me and my sister did our best,
Am                    F    C
To feed it earthworms everyday,
       Am                   F   C
After school we watched it fly away,

[Verse 2]

       C                F         
And I miss my mother my old room 
                   C
and the sound of the rain
       Am                       F 
As it fell on the rooftops and ran
           C
 along the drains
     Am                         F 
But sometimes it feels like an 
                C
ocean that railway line
E                              F 
Sometimes it feels like we're 
               C
living in darker times

[Verse 3]

     C          B           F    
I'm heading back home for a 
    C
couple of days
     Am        G          F      
I can't imagine all that much has
   C
 changed
Am                G             
See that town it moves with the 
F           C
colour of the sky
                        G      F
There's a face I recognise
    E          C
As the crow flies

[Verse 4]

      C                     F     
Well someone's opened up a cafe on
            C
 the river's edge,
      Am                           
I will go there in the summer rent 
       F       C
some boats out, we said,
       Am                  F      
Those kids grew up in the beat of 
             C
the old bass drum,
     E                   F        
From son to father, from father 
       C
back to son,

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[Verse 5]

      C                        
That cat she used to run rings, 
 F                           C
always playing tricks on the dog,
         Am                   
He'd be sitting in the kitchen 
   F                          C
rolling round all covered in mud,
             Am                    
Now they're buried in the garden in
      F                      C
 the shadow of the hawthorn tree,
E                              F 
Farewell travellers, may your 
              C
souls always be free

[Verse 6]

         C          B        F   
Well we always get together this 
        C
time of year,
        Am            G           
Always wish I could tell them what
         F          C
 they're waiting to hear,
     Am      G              F    
But who said time moves in 
   C
straight lines,
                       G        F
At least I can say I tried,
   E         C
As the crow flies

[Verse 7]

                 C                 
She said "you're drinking too much,
          F               C
 "I said, "yes I probably am"
           Am           F         
I find it easier to forget what I 
             C
can't understand
      Am                   F      
Like how all those snakes made it 
                  C
past the lions so fast
    Am                       F    
And how the future turned so 
             C
quickly into the past

[Verse 8]

        C          B           
Now the cafe by the river's all 
F       C
boarded up,
            Am          G    
There's an autumn wind blowing 
             F            C
through the old horse chestnuts,
       Am           G             
And I saw him in a dream, said 
   F         C
"he's doing alright,"
                        G        F
I can see him in your eyes
    E         G    F
As the crow flies
E   F       C
As the crow flies

[Verse 9]

      C                    
But sometimes it feels like 
F                     C
everything's been done before,
     Am                 F      
The same ideas and the same four 
      C
chords,
             Am                    
We're still leaving in the morning 
       F          C
for to cross the sea
    Am                 F           
Cos not everything has been done by 
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me

[Verse 10]

   C                       F      
I remember that boy in the fading 
      C
August light
    Am                     F      
We watched that fledgling bird 
            C
take its first flight
   Am               F       C
I hope that I have done you proud
      Am               F     C
And I promise to wake up and fight

[Verse 11]

        C           B              
On the roads that we travel on the 
F         C
oceans we sail,
        Am         G           
In the jaws of the dragon in the 
   F          C
belly of the whale,
       Am          G      F    C
Yeah I always keep you by my side
                               G   
We'll get old and we'll get wise,
   F

    E        C
As the crow flies,
                  G         F
Anywhere any time,
   E         C
As the crow flies