Songbook

Armchairs

By Andrew Bird

Key of C

F G F G

C Cmaj7 C56 Cmaj7

C G

C
   I dreamed you were a cosmonaut
G
   of the space between our chairs
C
   And I was a cartographer
G
   of the tangles in your hair

F
   I sang the song that silence sings

It's the one that everybody knows
          C
Everybody knows the song that silence sings
                   G
And this is how it goes

C Cmaj7 C56 Cmaj7

C
   These looms that weave apocrypha,
G
   they're hanging from a strand
C
   The dark and empty rooms were full
G
   of incandescent hands

F
   The awkward pause
F
   The fatal flaw
F
   Time, it's a crooked bow
                 C
Time's a crooked bow

In time you need to learn to love
                      G
The ebb just like the flow

D7                   B5                        Em
   Grab hold of your bootstraps, and pull like hell
                              Am                   D
Until gravity feels sorry for you, and it lets you go
          G               Gmaj7        C    Cmaj7
As if you lack the proper chemicals to know
    Am                            B5           F
the way it felt the last time you let yourself fall this low

                 C
Time's a crooked bow
                 D7
Time's a crooked bow
                     F  G  C
Time, it's a crooked bow

F                              G
   Fifty-five and three-eighths years later
F                        G
   At the bottom of a gigantic crater
   F                 G
An armchair calls to you
           F                 G
Yeah, this armchair calls to you
             C
It says, someday, we'll get back at them all
                         G
With epoxy and a pair of pliers
C
   As ancient sea slugs begin to crawl
                               G
through the ragweed and barbed wire

C
   You didn't write
           G
You didn't call
F                               G
   It didn't cross your mind at all
            C
Through the waves
                 G
waves of hay and straw
F                               G
   You couldn't feel a thing at all

Fifty-five and three-eighths
F
   Time
G
   Fifty-five and three-eighths
F
   Time
G

F
   Time