'Empty Birdcage' Written and Tabbed by Noah Newcomb

Capo on 2nd

Mostly strum - DDDUD - switching chords on the last down.

Intro: E G C D 


G       C      E
You?re not deserving
A               E
 just standing there 
G             D       C
watching your friend burning
      E
it's alright
                      C         D
they couldn't put up much of a fight, 
G
anyways, 
C                E     C           G
they still loved you until the end.
E                     C            G
 It's sad that they've left the Birdcage

E G C C D

G             E              C       G
And nothing's sadder than an Empty Birdcage
 G               D                   C
there's nothing flimsier than a promise
     G    E
from the escapee
G
I don't know,
E
Maybe,
         C
they've changed
G        E        C
it isn't all that strange
    G         E
the ones you held
 C         G            E
chose to meld into the background, and
     D       C                 G
they refused to make a single sound
 E           C          G
lest they be found, and forced 
                G    C
into the Empty Birdcage

E G C C D

 G               E           C
And you're not deserving, to watch
G                 C
these fields turning.
      E
It's alright
        C            G
you'll return them tonight
    C       G          C     D
An Empty Birdcage, is all you've left.
E                    G
They were never your friends
E            Am
they lied to live,
      C          G
biding time, to survive
                   G    C
until they left the Birdcage.

E E G G C D D

 G            E               C     G
And nothing's sadder than the Empty Birdcage
   G          D               C
and nothing's flimsier than a promise 
   G     C
from the escapee.
G
I don't know,
E
maybe,
         C       G           D
you've changed, able to rearrange
E             Am   
 the feeling, you'd been wishing the world to burn
C              G
in the Empty Birdcage

E E C C G D D 

G                        G
They loved you until the end.