Chord Humans by Islands

Am love bird , you flew into my window E now in the sticky love nest sits a widow Am the tree it fell on all the people E who gathered there to watch it topple Am - E - Am - E Am now turn around , it’s burning down Dm the city we live in C should we mobilize? C take them by surprise? F E let them have their way with us? Am wounds be by old enemies Dm broke my heart to see C foundations ripped apart C and investments fade away F E i guess we got off to a bad start C no oxygen Am what is the outcome? F hungry humans G we’ve got to enslave them C we’ll burn those bridges Am when we come to them F i’m not just their leader G i’m also one of them Am the food supply has been depleted E the river’s run dry just when it was needed Am the rats come out to take it over E singing , squeaking , "we built this city" Am it’s hard to breathe Am but we couldn’t leave Dm nowhere left to go C almost everybody died C drank the tears from those who cried F E we shriveled from the sodium Am and a map was found with an x on it Dm so we followed it there C and what did we find C an underground design F E as we entered in to our surprise C oxygen Am rivers and playgrounds F the ancients just stayed down G they never stopped moving C we stumbled towards them Am but they locked all the barn doors F so we had to dig deeper G we had to dig deeper Am and the deep was dark E i wanted to sleep forever E wake up later , maybe never Am we had to build a civilization E let the planet focus on the planet’s rotation Am we tried , we tried Am we really tried Dm but no one could do it C not really alive C never learned how to survive F E we were humans being useless C no oxygen Am what is the outcome? F hungry humans G we’ve got to enslave them C we’ll burn those bridges Am when we come to them F i’m not just their leader G i’m also one of them Am C we fade into oblivion C F Dm E no traces of civilized living eating the earth C we’re fading to oblivion C F Dm E no traces of civilized living eaten by earth