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by Jackson Browne


The birds of St Marks – Jackson Browne (CD: Solo acoustic Vol. 1)

Capo I

Intro:
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Oh how sad they sound the songs the queen must sing of dying
                                          
A prisoner upon her throne of melancholy sighing
                          
If she could see her mirror now
                             
She would be free of those who bow and
                              
Scrape the ground beneath her feet

                      
Silently she walks among her dying midnight roses
                                               
Watches as each moment goes that never really know us
                          
And so it seems she doesn't care
                          
If she has dreams of no one there
                          
Within the shadows of her room

                        
But all my frozen words agree, and say it's time to
                   
Call back, all the birds i sent to
               
Fly behind her castle walls, and i'm
             
Weary of the nights i've seen
                  
Inside these empty halls

Interlude:
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Wooden lady turn and turn among my weary secrets
                                                 
And wave within the hours past and other empty pockets
                             
Maybe we've found what we have lost
                                    
When we've unwound so many crossed entangling
        
Misunderstandings; but


                        
But all my frozen words agree, and say it's time to
                   
Call back, all the birds i sent to
               
Fly behind her castle walls, and i'm
             
Weary of the nights i've seen
                  
Inside these empty halls


Coda:
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