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Intro
G / G/F# / E / E / A / A / D / A / D / A /
G G/F# E
When I went to your town on the wide open shore,
A D G
Oh I must confess I was drawn, I was drawn to the ocean,
G/F# E A
I thought it spoke to me, it said, ³Look at us,
B G A B G
We're not churches, not schools, not skating ponds, swimming pools,
E
And we have lost people, havenıt we though?²
A D
Oh, that's what the ocean can know of a body,
G A F#
And that's when I came back to town, this town is a song about you.
G A B G A B G A
You don't know how lucky you are, you don't know how much I adore you,
B G A E A D
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.
G G/F# E
I went back to the ocean today,
A D G
With my books and my papers I went to the rocks by the ocean,
G/F# E A
But the weather changed quickly, oh the ocean said,
B G A B
³What are you trying to find, I donıt care, Iım not kind,
G E
Iıve bludgeouned your sailors, Iıve spat out their keepsakes,
A D
Oh itıs ashes to ashes, but always the ocean,²
G A F#
But the ocean can't come to this town, this town is a song about you.
G A B G A B G A
You don't know how lucky you are, you don't know how much I adore you,
B G A E A D
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.
Interlude: (La la)
G G/F# A b (4 times)
G E A D
G A F#
And the ones that can know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
G A B G A B G A
I have a good and I have an evil, I thought the ocean, the ocean thought
nothing,
B G E A D
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.
G G/F# E
I didn't go back today,
A D G
I wanted to show you that I was more land than water,
G/F# E A
I went to pick flowers. I brought them to you,
B G A B
Look at me, look at them, with their salt up the stem,
G E
But you frowned when I smiled and I tried to arrange them,
A D
You said, ³Let me tell you the song of this town,²
G A F#
You said, ³Everything closes at five. After that, well, you just got the bars,
G A B G
You donıt know how precious you are,
A B G A
walking around with your little shoes dangling,
B G A E
I am the one who lives with the ocean,
A F#
It's where we came from, you know, and sometimes I just want to go back.
G A B G
After a day, we drink ıtil weıre drowning,
A B G A
walk to the ocean, wade in with our workboots,
B G D
Wade in our workboots, try to finish the job.
G A B G A B G A
You don't know how precious you are, I am the one who lives with the ocean.
B G A B G A B E A D
You don't know how I am the one. You don't know how I am the one.²
Interlude: (La la)
G G/F# A b (22 times, fading out)
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