Selling Rope Swan Dive To Estuary

	  		

Intro: C 

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As I swan dive into the estuary, the birds do not flinch at my fall 
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They perch in the rafters, before, during, after: They do not notice me at all 


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As I float down into the estuary, wind cases my body in cool 
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I smell petrol fumes, see the smoke rise in plumes: The earth is one big fireball 
      F          Dm      C 
The earth is one big fireball 


G    C 
Anecdote, lie 
G       C 
My own alibi 
F          G        C 
I've been telling jokes 
G      C 
Piled notes high 
G       C 
My own alibi 
F          G       C 
I've been selling rope 


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As I break the film of the estuary, the seaweed submerges my form 
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No passing cars stop, not a single jaw drops, as my wallet and keys sink before 
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A splash all I left in the world 


G    C 
Anecdote, lie 
G        C 
My own alibi 
F            G      C 
I've been telling jokes 
G      C 
Piled notes high 
G       C 
My own alibi 
F           G      C 
I've been selling rope 


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Once held a magpie in the palm of my hand and the blood in our veins flowed faster, as I'd planned 
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Got a heart full of love and a head full of more but a fist full of threads from the seams 
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And I saw a smile in that beak 


G    C 
Anecdote, lie 
G        C 
My own alibi 
F            G      C 
I've been telling jokes 
G      C 
Piled notes high 
G       C 
My own alibi 
F           G      C 
I've been selling rope 


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Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again 
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I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you 
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Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again 
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I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you 

(at 3:59) C  Am x5 
(at 4:53) Dm  C x4 


F           G               Am             C 
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again 
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I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you 
F           G               Am             C 
Oh I was a bird right then, one day I will be again 
F                  Dm                          C 
I've been telling jokes while selling rope to you 

            F                G 
There's no ticker-tape, no pearly gates 
     Am              C 
No carnival and no parade 
      F   Dm        C 
Just one, one for sorrow 
             F               G 
There's no ticker-tape, no pearly gates 
     Am              C 
No carnival and no parade 
      F   Dm        C 
Just one, one for sorrow