Port of Morrow Lyrics

by The Shins

The Shins Port of Morrow Lyrics

I've tried to line up the chords as best as possible, as always, listen to the
song for best comparison. I'm sure this is right, then again, I have just spent an
hour I should've spent in bed working this out. I've actually worked out a lot of
the new album, will likely add them soon. The lyrics are makeshift, based on what
I could decipher, will update when the album comes out :D Enjoy! Sounds best
played on open chords!
Through the rain and all the clatter
Under the Fremont bridge I saw a pigeon fly
Fly in fear from the raptor come to take its life
And as it closed in for the capture
I funnelled the fear through my ancient eyes
To see in flight, what I know are
The bitter mechanics of life
Under my hat it reads "the lines are all imagined"
A fact of life I know to hide from my little girls
I know my place amongst the bugs and all the animals
And it's from these ordinary people
You are longing to be free
My hotel and on the TV
A preacher on the stage like a buzzard cries
Our a warning of phony sorrow. He's trying to get a rise.
The cyanide of an almond
Let him look at your hands, get the angles right
Ace of spades, Port of Morrow, life is death is life.
I saw a photograph; Cologne in ??27
And then a postcard after the bombs in ??45
Must have been a world of evil clowns that let it happen
But now I recognise, dear listeners,
That you were there and so was I
Instrumental break
(whole break x2)
Under my hat I know the lines are all imagined
A fact of life I must impress on my little girls
I know my place amongst the creatures in the pageant
And there are flowers in the garbage
And a skull under your curls
Instrumental break
Repeat instrumental break until fade.
Ace of spades, Port of Morrow, life is death is life.
for example, with another A in place of the F. It sounded right to me, but I went

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