BIRDY – People Help The People

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This song is from the album People Help the People(2011), released on 28 October 2011.
As with all of her other songs, I loved her performance of this song. The production felt fine, but the emotion and the passion in her voice makes this song really beautiful. The lyrics of this song felt really nice and calm, however, the high frequencies of the piano could have been tamed and controlled. You can feel the piercing tones of the higher octaves especially in the intro. I wish that mix engineer had taken care of those.
SongRating: 8.5/10


Requested By Jenni Nguyen

Scale: Bb Minor
Time Signature: 4/4
Tempo: 74
[INTRO] F# Bbm F# Bbm
[VERSE]
F#                                  Bbm
God knows what is hiding in those weak and drunken hearts
            Ab
Guess he kissed the girls and made them cry
        F#
Those hard-faced queens of misadventure
F#                                Bbm
God knows what is hiding in those weak and sunken lives
         Ab
Fiery throngs of muted angels
        F#
Giving love but getting nothing back, oh

[CHORUS]
F#                Bbm
People help the people
               Ab
And if you're homesick
                             F#
Give me your hand and I'll hold it
F#                Bbm
People help the people
                   Ab
And nothing will drag you down
        Ebm  C#     F#
Oh and if I had a brain,
        Ebm  C#     F#
Oh and if I had a brain
        Ebm      C#          F#
I'd be cold as a stone and rich as a fool
        Ebm             F           F#
That turned all those good hearts away

[INSTRUMENTAL] F#

[VERSE]
F#                                  Bbm
God knows what is hiding in this world of little consequence
   Ab
Behind the tears, inside the lies
    F#
A thousand slowly dying sunsets
F#                                  Bbm
God knows what is hiding in those weak and drunken hearts
            Ab
Guess the loneliness came knocking
         F#
No one needs to be alone, oh singin'

[CHORUS]
F#                Bbm
People help the people
               Ab
And if you're homesick
                             F#
Give me your hand and I'll hold it
F#                Bbm
People help the people
                   Ab
And nothing will drag you down
        Ebm  C#     F#
Oh and if I had a brain,
        Ebm  C#     F#
Oh and if I had a brain
        Ebm      C#          F#
I'd be cold as a stone and rich as a fool
        Ebm             F           F#
That turned all those good hearts away

[INSTRUMENTAL] F# Bbm Ab F# x2

[CHORUS]
F#                Bbm
People help the people
               Ab
And if you're homesick
                             F#
Give me your hand and I'll hold it
F#                Bbm
People help the people
                   Ab
And nothing will drag you down
        Ebm  C#     F#
Oh and if I had a brain,
        Ebm  C#     F#
Oh and if I had a brain
        Ebm      C#          F#
I'd be cold as a stone and rich as a fool
        Ebm             F           F#
That turned all those good hearts away

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