Starling
Brave Saint Saturn

Chords used:
Csus2:--- x35533
G#maj7:-- 435533
D#sus2:-- x68866
G:------- 355433
G#m:----- 466444
A#m:----- x13311


(verse 1)

Csus2       G#maj7      D#sus2 G
     Filthy bird laying in our yard,

     Csus2         G#maj7       D#sus2  G
     four chambered heart never beat so hard.

     Csus2    G#maj7  D#sus2   G
     Dad said she was almost gone,

     Csus2  G#maj7   D#sus2    G
     upside down out on our lawn.

     And I could hold her in a shoe box,
     if she healed she could be mine.
     And if I cannot save her spirit,
     Dad says I should break her spine.

     Csus2               D#sus2
     Shaking, brilliant, silver-black wings,

     G#m                A#m
     Jesus Christ, what prayers these tears sing.


(chorus)

     Csus2                D#sus2              G#m
     Wear your hearts out on your sleeves for

                A#m
     starlings... starlings.

     Csus2           D3sus2
     Of the least of all of these

         G#m        A#m
     are  starlings... starlings.


(verse 2)

     Two years pass, I pump the chamber,
     full of air to shoot the birds.
     Harmless game to hit them slightly,
     to scare them off, in other words.
     Slarling falling to her death,
     pircing copper steals her breath.
     See the flutter in her breast,
     starving babies in her nest.

     Raise their souls up to the sky,
     why must helpless creatures die?

(chorus)

(bridge)

     Csus2            D#sus2
     Every breath has sacred weight,

   G#m                   A#m
     every life has some design.

     Csus2             D#sus2
     Can we kill and also save,

     G#m                  A#m
     speak of life, while digging graves?

     Raise their souls up to the sky,
     why must helpless creatures die?

(chorus)