Intro
Verse
A Em7
How long before I get in?
G D
Before it starts, before I begin?
A Em7
How long before you decide?
G D
Before I know what it feels like?
A Em7
Where to, where do I go?
D
If you never try, you'll never know,
A Em7
How long do I have to climb?
G D
Up on the side of this mountain of mine?
Instrumental
Verse
A Em7
Look up, I look up at night
G D
Planets are moving at the speed of light
A Em7
Climb up, up in the trees
G D
Every chance that you get is a chance you seize
A Em7
How long am I gonna stand
G D
With my head stuck under the sand
A Em7
I'll start before I can stop
G D
Before I see things the right way up
Pre Chorus
G A
All that noise
Bm
And all that sound
G A Bm
All those places I got found
Chorus
G Bm7
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
D G
To show you how it all began
Bm7
Birds came flying from the ground
F#m G
If you could see it then you'd understand
Instrumental
Verse
A Em7
Ideas that you'll never find
G D
All the inventors could never design
A Em7
The buildings that you put up
G D
Japan and China all lit up
A Em7
A sign that I couldn't read
G D
Or a light that I couldn't see
A Em7
Some things you have to believe
G D
Others are puzzles, puzzling me
Pre Chorus
G A
All that noise
Bm
And all that sound
G A Bm
All those places I got found
Chorus
G Bm
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
D G
To show you how it all began
Bm
Birds came flying from the underground
F#m G
If you could see it then you'd understand
F#m G
Ah, when you see it then you'd understand
Instrumental
D all along
Pre Chorus
G A Bm
All those signs, I knew what they meant
E
Some things you can't invent
G A Bm E
Some get made and some get sent, ooh
Chorus
G Bm
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
D G
To show you how it all began
Bm
Birds came flying from the underground
F#m G
If you could see it then you'd understand
F#m G
Ah, when you see it then you'll understand
Ending
G all along
