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Intro
SOL / SOL/FA# / MI / MI / LA / LA / RE / LA / RE / LA /
SOL SOL/FA# MI
When I went to your town on the wide open shore,
LA RE SOL
Oh I must confess I was drawn, I was drawn to the ocean,
SOL/FA# MI LA
I thought it spoke to me, it said, ³Look at us,
SI SOL LA SI SOL
We're not churches, not schools, not skating ponds, swimming pools,
MI
And we have lost people, haven¹t we though?²
LA RE
Oh, that's what the ocean can know of a body,
SOL LA FA#
And that's when I came back to town, this town is a song about you.
SOL LA SI SOL LA SI SOL LA
You don't know how lucky you are, you don't know how much I adore you,
SI SOL LA MI LA RE
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.
SOL SOL/FA# MI
I went back to the ocean today,
LA RE SOL
With my books and my papers I went to the rocks by the ocean,
SOL/FA# MI LA
But the weather changed quickly, oh the ocean said,
SI SOL LA SI
³What are you trying to find, I don¹t care, I¹m not kind,
SOL MI
I¹ve bludgeouned your sailors, I¹ve spat out their keepsakes,
LA RE
Oh it¹s ashes to ashes, but always the ocean,²
SOL LA FA#
But the ocean can't come to this town, this town is a song about you.
SOL LA SI SOL LA SI SOL LA
You don't know how lucky you are, you don't know how much I adore you,
SI SOL LA MI LA RE
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.
Interlude: (La la)
G G/F# A b (4 times)
SOL MI LA RE
SOL LA FA#
And the ones that can know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
SOL LA SI SOL LA SI SOL LA
I have a good and I have an evil, I thought the ocean, the ocean thought
nothing,
SI SOL MI LA RE
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.
SOL SOL/FA# MI
I didn't go back today,
LA RE SOL
I wanted to show you that I was more land than water,
SOL/FA# MI LA
I went to pick flowers. I brought them to you,
SI SOL LA SI
Look at me, look at them, with their salt up the stem,
SOL MI
But you frowned when I smiled and I tried to arrange them,
LA RE
You said, ³Let me tell you the song of this town,²
SOL LA FA#
You said, ³Everything closes at five. After that, well, you just got the bars,
SOL LA SI SOL
You don¹t know how precious you are,
LA SI SOL LA
walking around with your little shoes dangling,
SI SOL LA MI
I am the one who lives with the ocean,
LA FA#
It's where we came from, you know, and sometimes I just want to go back.
SOL LA SI SOL
After a day, we drink ¹til we¹re drowning,
LA SI SOL LA
walk to the ocean, wade in with our workboots,
SI SOL RE
Wade in our workboots, try to finish the job.
SOL LA SI SOL LA SI SOL LA
You don't know how precious you are, I am the one who lives with the ocean.
SI SOL LA SI SOL LA SI MI LA RE
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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