Intro: B5 , G5 , B5 , G5 , B5 , G5 , B5 , G5 ,

B5                        E5
Your heart sings like a kettle

         G5                           B5
And your words, they boil away like steam.

B5                               E5
And a lie burns long while the truth bites quick,

G5                                  B5
A heart is built for both it seems.

B5                        E5
You are lonely as a church,

              G5                     B5
Despite the queuing out your door.

B5                  E5         G5           B5         
I am empty as a promise, no more.


F#5         E5            B5
  When the time comes,

    F#5            E5          B5
And rights have been read,

  F#5            E5
I think of you often

     B5         F#5          E5         
But for once I meant what I said.

B5 , G5 , B5 , G5 , B5 , G5 , B5 , G5

   B5                  E5
I was salted by your hunger,

         G5                       B5
Now you've gone and lost your appetite

B5                     E5             G5               B5
And a little bird is every bit as handy in a fight.

    B5              E5
I am lonely as a memory

            G5                          B5
Despite the gathering round the fire.

B5                  E5            G5      B5
Aren't you every bird on every wire?


F#5           E5           B5
   When the time comes,

    F#5             E5        B5
And rights have been read,

  F#5           E5
I think of you often

      B5            F#5        E5          B5
But for once I meant what I said.

F#5        E5            B5
 Here I stay, I lay me down,

    F#5         E5        B5
In a house by a hill.

   F#5              E5     B5     F#5           E5        B5 
I'm dug from the rubble,    and cut from the kill.

F#5         E5            B5
 Here I stay, I lay me down,

   F#5         E5          B5
In a house by the Hill.

   F#5              E5     B5     F#5           E5       B5
I'm dug from the rubble,    and cut from the kill.         (Times 3)