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Birdman by Our Lady Peace
Birdman
Time:4/4
Tuning: 6-Eb 5-Ab 4-Db 3-Gb 2-Bb 1-Eb
Riff: #1 (Let Ring)
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Riff: 2 Riff: 3 (Let Ring)
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Riff: 4A (Let All Notes Ring Except:*) *
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Riff: 4B (Let All Notes Ring Except:*) *
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Riff: 5A
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Riff: 5B
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Riff: 6
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Riff: 7A
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Riff: 7B
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Riff: 8 (Note: The time signature on this one riff is 6/4)
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Riff: 9 (Guitar Solo)
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Arrangement:
Intro/First Verse:
| Riff 1 |
Hopelessly, a man starts to feed your day
| Riff 1 |
Once was there, you never looked back
| Riff 1 |
How do you think those words might just fade away?
| Riff 1 |
He's harmless enough so you let him in and now you'll pay
?
| Riff 2 | (slight feedback)|
I can't see him but he's stuck in my thoughts
?
| Riff 3 | Riff 3 | Riff 3 | Riff 3 | Riff 3 | Riff 3 | Riff 3 | Riff 3 |
Ooh Yeaheeee!
Second Verse:
| Riff 4A | Riff 4B |
How does it feel when you can't concentrate? I just stare
| Riff 4A | Riff 3 | Riff 3 |
All of your daydreams are a seesaw for him to play on
| Riff 5A | Riff 5B |
Now do you feel when he calls your name? You plug your ears but, it's not the same
| Riff 5A | Riff 3 | Riff 3 |
Yeah, do you know when he pulls you back? Oh, he pulls you back, back, back
Pre Chorus:
| Riff 6 |
Get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on...
Chorus:
| Riff 7A | Riff 7B |
Nobody's wrong, Nobody's right, the BIRDMAN wouldn't lie...
| Riff 7B | Riff 7B |
Nobody's wrong, Nobody's right, but I just can't trust him tonight...
Main Riff:
| Riff 3 | Riff 3 | Riff 3 | Riff 3 |
Third Verse:
| Riff 4A | Riff 4B |
How do you forget a stranger that plagues your days...
| Riff 4A | Riff 3 | Riff 3 |
We arm ourselves when there's nothing to fear right? Wrong...
| Riff 5A | Riff 5B |
Now do you feel when it comes to pass? There's something there but, It's not quite right...
| Riff 5A | Riff 3 | Riff 3 |
Yeah, do you know? Does it make you mad? Oh, it makes you mad, mad, mad...
Pre Chorus:
| Riff 6 |
Get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on...
Chorus:
| Riff 7A | Riff 7B |
Nobody's wrong, Nobody's right, the BIRDMAN wouldn't lie...
| Riff 7B | Riff 7B |
Nobody's wrong, Nobody's right, but I can't trust him tonight...
Bridge:
| Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 |
| Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 |
I feel him, I feel him close...
| Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 |
I feel him, I feel him hide...
Solo:
| Riff 9 |
How do we find out...
Chorus:
| Riff 7A | Riff 7B |
Nobody's wrong, nobody's right, the BIRDMAN wouldn't lie...
| Riff 7B | Riff 7B |
Nobody's wrong, nobody's right, but I can't trust him tonight...
| Riff 7B | Riff 7B |
Nobody's wrong, nobody's right, the BIRDMAN wouldn't lie...
| Riff 7B | Riff 7B |
Nobody's wrong, nobody's right, people I know you people...
| Riff 7B | Riff 7B |
Get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on, and on and on...
| Riff 7B | Riff 7B |
Get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on...
Outro:
| Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 |
I feel him...
| Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 |
I feel him close, I feel him...
| Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 |
I feel him close, I feel him hide...
| Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 |
I feel him hide, yeah, yeah, yeah...
| Riff 8 | Riff 8 | Riff 8 | (ends very loosely)
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