Biography:
Elbow is an alternative rock band that got started in Bury, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom in 1990. Formed when its members were in sixth-form college, the group consists of Guy Garvey (vocals, guitar), Mark Potter (guitar, vocals), Pete Turner (bass), Craig Potter (keyboards) and Richard Jupp (drums). Over the band's twenty plus year career, it has released six studio albums and four EPs while also having over five top 40 singles in the U.K. alone.
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Other songs:
- Audience With The Pope
- Fugitive Motel
- Grounds For Divorce
- Grounds For Divorce (version 2)
- Leaders Of The Free World
- Mirrorball
- Mirrorball (version 2)
- One Day Like This
- One Day Like This (version 2)
- Red
- Some Riot
- Starlings
- The Fix
- The Lonliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
- Weather To Fly
- Golden Slumbers
- An Audience With The Pope
- An Imagined Affair
- Any Day Now
- Asleep In The Back
- Charge
- Colour Fields
- Dear Friends
- Everthere
- Fly Boy Blue Lunette
- Forget Myself
- Friends Of Ours
- Futitive Motel
- Gentle Storm
- Grace Under Pressure
- Great Expectations
- Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl
- K2
- Kindling
- Lippy Kids
- Little Fictions
- Magnificent She Says
- Magnificient She Says
- Montparnasse
- My Sad Captains
- My Very Best
- Neat Little Rows
- New York Morning
- Newborn
- Not A Job
- Open Arms
- Picky Bugger
- Powder Blue
- Real Life Angel Acoustic
- Scattered Black And Whites
- Station Approach
- Stops
- Switching Off
- The Birds
- The Blanket Of The Nights
- The Bones Of You
- The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
- The Seldom Seen Kid
- The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
- This Blue World
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Intro]
D D D D F C C C C C
[Verse]
D
The birds
Em D C D F C
Are the kee - pers of our se - cret
Dm C Bb C D
As they saw us where we lay
Em D C D F C
In the dee - pest grass of spring - time
Dm C Bb C D
In a reck - less guil - ty haze
Em D C D F C
And they wove a sweet in - diff - erence
Dm C Bb C D
And it set - tled on our skin
Em D C D F C
Till the eyes that I re - mem - bered
Dm C Bb C D
For the last time drew me in
[Break]
D
[Verse]
D
The birds
Em D C D F C
Though I wore your gla - cial pa - tience
Dm C Bb C D
To a smudge of bi - tter dust
Em D C D F C
On the last day you em - braced me
Dm C Bb C D
With a gliste - ning sap - ling trust
Em D C D F C
Did they sing a mill - ion ble - ssings
Dm C Bb C D
As they watched us slow - ly part
Em D C D F C
Do they keep those fi - nal ki - sses
Dm C Bb C D
In their ti - ny ra - cing hearts
[Instrumental]
D
D D D D F C C C C C
D D D D F C C C C C
[Bridge]
D
What are we gonna do with you...
Same tale, every time
F C
What are we gonna do with you, come on inside
D
Looking back is for the birds
D
What are we gonna do with you...
Same tale, every time
F C
What are we gonna do with you, come on inside
D
Looking back is for the birds
D
What are we gonna do with you...
Same tale, every time
F C
What are we gonna do with you, come on inside
D
Looking back is for the birds
D
What are we gonna do with you...
Same tale, every time
F C
What are we gonna do with you, come on inside
D
Looking back is for the birds
[Instrumental]
D D D D Em D C D F F C C C C C C Dm C Bb C
D D D D Em D C D F F C C C C C C Dm C Bb C
[Verse]
D
Ohhhhhh, the birds
Em D C D F C
Are the kee - pers of our se - cret
Dm C Bb C D
As they saw us where we lay
Em D C D F C
In the dee - pest grass of spring - time
Dm C Bb C D
In a reck - less guil - ty haze
Em D C D F C
Did they sing a mill - ion ble - ssings
Dm C Bb C D
As they watched us slow - ly part
Em D C D F C
Do they keep those fi - nal ki - sses
Dm C Bb C D
In their ti - ny ra - cing hearts
D D D D Em D C D C F C Dm C
What are we gonna do with you...
Bb C D
Looking back is for the birds
D D D D Em D C D C F C
What are we gonna do with you...
Dm C Bb C
[Outro]
D C D Am D
Oohooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
D C D Am D
Oohooh-ooh, ooh ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
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D D D D F C C C C C
[Verse]
D
The birds
Em D C D F C
Are the kee - pers of our se - cret
Dm C Bb C D
As they saw us where we lay
Em D C D F C
In the dee - pest grass of spring - time
Dm C Bb C D
In a reck - less guil - ty haze
Em D C D F C
And they wove a sweet in - diff - erence
Dm C Bb C D
And it set - tled on our skin
Em D C D F C
Till the eyes that I re - mem - bered
Dm C Bb C D
For the last time drew me in
[Break]
D
[Verse]
D
The birds
Em D C D F C
Though I wore your gla - cial pa - tience
Dm C Bb C D
To a smudge of bi - tter dust
Em D C D F C
On the last day you em - braced me
Dm C Bb C D
With a gliste - ning sap - ling trust
Em D C D F C
Did they sing a mill - ion ble - ssings
Dm C Bb C D
As they watched us slow - ly part
Em D C D F C
Do they keep those fi - nal ki - sses
Dm C Bb C D
In their ti - ny ra - cing hearts
[Instrumental]
D
D D D D F C C C C C
D D D D F C C C C C
[Bridge]
D
What are we gonna do with you...
Same tale, every time
F C
What are we gonna do with you, come on inside
D
Looking back is for the birds
D
What are we gonna do with you...
Same tale, every time
F C
What are we gonna do with you, come on inside
D
Looking back is for the birds
D
What are we gonna do with you...
Same tale, every time
F C
What are we gonna do with you, come on inside
D
Looking back is for the birds
D
What are we gonna do with you...
Same tale, every time
F C
What are we gonna do with you, come on inside
D
Looking back is for the birds
[Instrumental]
D D D D Em D C D F F C C C C C C Dm C Bb C
D D D D Em D C D F F C C C C C C Dm C Bb C
[Verse]
D
Ohhhhhh, the birds
Em D C D F C
Are the kee - pers of our se - cret
Dm C Bb C D
As they saw us where we lay
Em D C D F C
In the dee - pest grass of spring - time
Dm C Bb C D
In a reck - less guil - ty haze
Em D C D F C
Did they sing a mill - ion ble - ssings
Dm C Bb C D
As they watched us slow - ly part
Em D C D F C
Do they keep those fi - nal ki - sses
Dm C Bb C D
In their ti - ny ra - cing hearts
D D D D Em D C D C F C Dm C
What are we gonna do with you...
Bb C D
Looking back is for the birds
D D D D Em D C D C F C
What are we gonna do with you...
Dm C Bb C
[Outro]
D C D Am D
Oohooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
D C D Am D
Oohooh-ooh, ooh ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
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