Little Birds

Am

[Verse]
Am
Little birds born without a mother or a father
I can feel their feathers forming in the running water
G
Now there is another in the middle of my mouth
Em
A hundred altogether inside of me now
Am
Little birds, little birds come into my body
Am
Mother, they're within me every moment I'm awaking
Bodies multiplying 'til they finally overtake me
G
Put your ears up to my mouth and you can hear them signing
Em
Put you hand within me and you'll know what I'm feeling
Am
I just want to swallow up and promise to protect them
Am
Daddy, come towards me, I can see his hands are shaking
Put his hands against me, he could feel their bodies breaking
G
Push me to the floor and put his hands up for a beating
Em
"I don't want to hear it anymore," he kept repeating
Am
Do you really want the burning hell to come and get you?
Am
Did you see the burning hell, it took your baby brother?
Did you see how far he fell and how he made us suffer?
G
Another boy in town at night he took him for his lover
    Em
And deep in sin they held each other
Am
So I took a hammer and nearly beat his little brains in
Knowing God in Heaven, no, could never, could forgive him
                                                       G Em
So I took a hammer and I nearly beat his little brains in
Am
Little boy born without a father or a mother
Am
Taken to the river and then pushed into the water
G
And the priests are singing that the hell is getting hotter la la la la la
Am
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him

[Outro]
Am                   G
And here beneath the water I can see
        Em                Am
How the lights distort so strange
                  G                      Em
And this is how I would like to leave my body
          Am
And start again