Am
Little birds born without a mother or a father
 Am
I can feel their feathers forming in the running water
 G
Now there is another in the middle of my mouth
 Em
A hundred altogether inside of me now
 Am
Little birds, little birds come into my body

 Am
Mother, they're within me every moment I'm awaking
 Am
Bodies multiplying 'til they finally overtake me
 G
Put your ears up to my mouth and you can hear them singing
 Em
Put you hands within me and you'll know what I am feeling
 Am
I just want to swallow up and promise to protect them

 Am
Daddy come towards me I can feel his hands are shaking
 Am
Put his hands against me he can feel their bodies breaking
 G
Push me to the floor and put his hands up for a beating
 Em
"I don't want to hear it anymore" he kept repeating
 Am
Do you really want the burning hell to come and get you?

 Am
Did you know the burning hell it took your baby brother?
 Am
Did you see how far he fell and how he made us suffer?
 G
Another boy in town at night he took him for his lover
 Em
And deep in sin they held each other
 Am
So I took a hammer and nearly beat his little brains in

Knowing God in heaven no could never could forgive him
                                          G   Em
So I took a hammer nearly beat his brains in

 Am
Little boy born without a mother or a father
 Am
Taken to the river and then pushed into the water
 G                                                        Em
And the priest is singing that the hell is getting hotter la la la la la
 Am
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
 Am
From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him
 Am                                                G   Em
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him

 Am                   G
And here beneath the water I can see
        Em                Am
How the light distorts so strange
                 G                      Em            
And this is how I would like to leave my body
           Am
And start again