Flightless Bird, American Mouth
Iron & Wine
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[Verse]CI was a quick wet boyAmDiving too deep for coinsFAll of your street light eyesGWide on my plastic toysCAnd when the cops closed the fairAmI cut my long baby hairFStole me a dog-eared mapGAnd called for you everywhere[Chorus]CHave I found you?Am F GFlightless bird, jealous, weepingCOr lost you?AmAmerican mouthF GBig pill looming[Verse]CNow I’m a fat house catAmNursing my sore blunt tongueFWatching the warm poison ratsGCurl through the wide fence cracksCPissing on magazineAmPhotos, those fishing luresFThrown in the cold and cleanGBlood of Christ mountain stream[Chorus]CHave I found you?Am F GFlightless bird, grounded, bleedingCOr lost you?AmAmerican mouthF G CBig pill, stuck going down[Outro]Am F GC Am F G x3
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