Salt, Pepper, Birds, And The Thought Police Chords by Mili

_ [Fm] _ _ [Cm] _ [Gm] Bamboo basket, _ _
_ [Bb] _ [Eb] reflector, making [Ab] breaks, never forget [Fm] your helmet, [D] trust [B] the image, see I'm [Cm] off [Bb] to the [Eb] morning _ [Ab] market
_ [Gm] 33 lemons, a healthy looking chicken, and [Bb] a dozen [C]
of free [Fm] range eggs
[Bb] Thanks Pete, _ for the cake, _ _ [C] _ _
whistling [Fm] a tune, _ [Bb] I'm home, _ [Eb] I'm [Bb] home, _ _ _ _ [Ab] what a _ perfect [Gm] day
I hang the sheets [Eb] out in [E] the yard, pull it [Fm] off my bed, [Ab] _ [Gm] eat dry, think [Bbm] about [C] your lover
To realize [Fm] your famous [Ab] _ [Bb] words, I need [Eb] a salt and [C] pepper, to taste [Fm] the happiness [Bb] of life, _ [Eb] forever
_ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Fm] Then the mint [Eb] _ [Bb] _ roast, and green [Eb] lemon _ [Ab] chicken, roasted in [Fm] the oven
[D] And then [B] blacked it down [Cm] my [Bb] front door, [Eb] hey, _ [Gm]
what, why?
[Fm] Your boy, all laid it [Bb] out, 6 or 17, [Eb] you can bet you're [Cm] on the right
We humbled the true answer, [Fm] was he shouldn't have [F] been born [Gm] the way he was
_ [Eb] And _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Eb] we're packed in a cargo, [Dm] future train, squeezing against a body [Gm] similar _ to me
[Cm] With tears rolling [F] down our faces, we [Bb] began to say
[Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] Anything from our [C] souls, [Ab] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C]
sugar, _ [Ab] [Gm] anything from [C] our souls
[Ab] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [Ab] They shaved off [Gm] my hair, sent me a foreign _ [C] [E] language, walking [Fm] on the bright [Ab] side, yeah, [Bb] I'm alive
I still [Db] remember all the people [C] I loved, so come and [Fm] hear me, hear [Gm] my [D] words
All [Eb] this pain and [C] _ suffer, don't stand [Fm] a chance against [D] our _ _ [Eb] iron hearts _ _ _ _
[Ab] As the morning came in, when [Gm] _ the people stayed and left
And [D] the years [G] went rambling around, [Cm] the snow's [G] never looked [Cm] so kind [C] of him
And [Fm] the sun's bright red, [Bb] saw the tiny sweat on [Eb] the wall
Every night I'll stand by [D] that true watch, be [G] the air that's wiped by [Cm] many [G] rivers
His [Cm] wild hair winds [C] carrying [Fm] the heart, his [Gm]
voice is saying [G] a word, his [C] story's source
Letting [Fm] everyone in the [Gm] future know that we [Eb] existed _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] [Ab] What a _ perfect [Gm] _
night, I felt the urge [Eb] to [C] put a [E] book past [Fm] my life
_ _ [Gm]
Until recently, [Bbm] I [Dbm] did a few [C] things with my [Fm] bloody _ _ [Ab] _ [Bb] handkerchief
All I needed were sticks and [C] paper, I [E] started [Fm] to write poems [Bb] after poems
And [Fm] the neighbors _ [Bb] came to meet me, they [Gm] said they'd keep [Eb] an [E] open-air place where [Gm] I'm [Ab] finally free
I picked [D] up my bicycle, [Bbm] riding home to [C] my bed, riding [Fm] my _ illusion
[Bb] Wrote a song, version of every word sat [C] in my yard, [Ab] reading a _ paperback [Bb] _ _
_ [Eb] of my book _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] On a _ [D] _ hillside, your [Eb] little fist [Ab] clutching sweat
Walked to the [Fm] memorial [D] park, [B] you put down [Cm] freshly [Bb] cut [Eb] white _ crits and [Ab] bombs
A former [Gm] thought police, a [Bb] worser hat, [Eb] children lying [C] on the grass
[Fm] _ Seeing [Ab] coupons, _ read it, _ [Eb] finally _ _ _ _
_ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _ _