Songbook

Manifest

By Andrew Bird

Key of Bb

[Intro]
Bb Fm Eb Bb
Bb Fm Eb Bb

[Verse]
  Bb                          Fm
I'm coming to the edge of the widest canyon
  Eb             Bb
My companion's dear
 Bb                           Fm
I'm starting to question my manifest destiny
 Eb                 Bb
My claim to this frontier

[Pre-Chorus]
 Bb                          Fm
I'm coming to the brink of a great disaster
 Eb               Bb
End just has to be near
  Bb                     Ab
The earth spins faster, whistles right past you
  Cm                   F
Whispers death in your ear
  D7                   Gm
Don't pretend you can't hear
  D7                 Cm
Don't pretend you can't

[Chorus]
Bb F Cm                 Cm
        I can hear your tendrils still
Bb F Cm                        Cm
Digging, for everything that's walked this earth once
Bb F Cm              Cm
Living, then to be exhumed and burned to
Bb F
Vapor
        Ab   G
Can you save her?
          G7     Cm  F
Now she's in the air
            Bb   G
Radical and free
                 Cm
Neither here nor there
        F
She's obliged to no one
        F
She's obliged to no one
F
Yeah, yeah

Bb Fm Eb Bb
Bb Fm Eb Bb

[Verse]
Bb                         Fm
I'm coming to the edge of a rising ocean
Eb                      Bb
Such commotion and fear
  Bb                             Fm
Keeping all our eyes on what's on the horizon
   Eb              Bb
And all that we hold dear

[Pre-Chorus]
  Bb                            Fm
I'm coming to the brink of a great disaster
  Eb             Bb
End just has to be near
  Bb                          Ab
The earth spins faster, whistles right past you
 Cm                  F
Whispers death in your ear
   D7                   Gm
Don't pretend you can't hear
    D7               Cm
Don't pretend you can't

[Chorus]
Bb F Cm                 Cm
        I can hear your tendrils still
Bb F Cm                        Cm
Digging, for everything that's walked this earth once
Bb F Cm              Cm
Living, then to be exhumed and burned to
Bb F
Vapor
        Ab   G
Can you save her?
          G7     Cm  F
Now she's in the air
            Bb   G
Radical and free
              Cm
Not a goddamn care
        F
She's obliged to no one
        F
She's obliged to no one
F
Oh, no

[Outro]
Eb Bb Bb Eb
Eb Bb Bb Eb
Eb Bb Bb7 Eb
Cm Gm D7 Ebmaj7

 D7                     Ebmaj7
Don't pretend you can't hear
 D7                     Cm
Don't pretend you can't hear