Neutral Milk Hotel - Little birds

^AmLittle birds born without a mother or a father ^AmI can feel their feathers forming in the running water ^GNow there is another in the middle of my mouth ^EmA hundred altogether inside of me now ^AmLittle birds, little birds, come into my body

^AmMother, they're within me every moment I'm awaking ^AmBodies multiplying until they finally overtake me ^GPut your ears up to my mouth and you can hear them singing ^EmPut you hands within me and you'll know what I am feeling ^AmI just want to swallow up and promise to protect them

^AmDaddy, come towards me, I can see his hands are shaking ^AmPut his hands against me, he could see their bodies breaking ^GPush me to the floor and put his hands up for a beating ^Em"I don't want to hear it anymore," he kept repeating ^AmDo you really want the burning hell to come and get you? ^{F Am F Em}

^AmDid you see the burning hell it took your baby brother? ^AmDid you see how far he fell and how he made us suffer? ^GAnother boy in town at night he took him for his lover And ^Emdeep in sin they held each other ^AmSo I took a hammer, nearly beat his little brains in ^AmKnowing God in heaven no could never could forgive him ^AmSo I took a hammer nearly beat his little bra^Gins^Em in

^AmLittle boy born without a mother or a father ^AmTaken to the river and then pushed into the water ^GAnd the priests are singing that the hell was getting hotter ^{Em Am}Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him ^AmFrom the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him ^AmFather, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only one to save ^Ghim^Em

^AmAnd here beneath the ^Gwater I can see How the^Em light distorts so ^Amstrange ^AmAnd this is how I^G would like to leave my^Em body And start a^Amgain