Lighthouse chords by
The Roots
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Key: Eb major
Intro 1
D
D

E
E

D
D

A
A

F#m
F#m

G#m
G#m

E
E

Verse 1
D
D

If you can't
A
A

F#m
F#m

swizzim then ya bound to drizzown
D
D

G#m
G#m

Passing out life jackets bout
E
E

D
D

to go didown
Get down with the captain or
A
A

go down with the ship
F#m
F#m

Before the dark abyss
D
D

G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

E
E

I'ma hit you wit dis
C#m
C#m

If
Verse 2
D
D

you can't swizzim then
ya bound to drizzown
F#m
F#m

G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

Passing out life jackets bout to go didown
D
D

Get down with the captain or
go down with the ship
F#m
F#m

Before the dark abyss
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

I'ma hit you wit dis
D
D

Verse 3
G#m
G#m

And no one's in the light house
C#m
C#m

D
D

You're face down in the ocean
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

And no one's in the light house
D
D

And it seems like you just screamed
C#m
C#m

F#m
F#m

C#m
C#m

It's no one there to hear the sound
D
D

And it may feel like there's no one there
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

That cares if you drown
D
D

Face down in the ocean
A
A

Smoking cheap weed sipping
Verse 4
D
D

A
A

on cheap vodka
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

You pick your poison down
Davey Jones' locker
D
D

C#m
C#m

D
D

It's rum we be wanting
E
E

By the tons my consumption
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

Take a look at my lungs and my liver
It's disgusting
D
D

Take a look at the man in the mirror
E
E

We start fussing
C#m
C#m

G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

Only one person gets hurt when
throwing the punches
D
D

Me
And the man behind the glass just laughs
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

The waves come over my
head and just crash
D
D

My hand start bleeding
water starts receding
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

A feeling comes into my heart
D
D

I start believing that
I actually might survive
through the evening
C#m
C#m

G#m
G#m

Survive my own thoughts of
C#m
C#m

suicide that's competing
D
D

With thoughts of tryna stay
alive which been weakened
G#m
G#m

By the feeling of putting on a smile
C#m
C#m

while being beaten
D
D

The fear of drowning still diving
G#m
G#m

in the deep end
The waters carried me so far
C#m
C#m

you can't reach 'em
D
D

And it feels like there's no one
Verse 5
G#m
G#m

And no one's in the lighthouse
C#m
C#m

D
D

You're face down in the ocean
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

And no one's in the light house
D
D

And it seems like you just screamed
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

It's no one there to hear the sound
D
D

And it may feel like there's no one there
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

That cares if you drown
D
D

C#m
C#m

D
D

Face down in the ocean
C#m
C#m

G#m
G#m

After the love is lost
Verse 6
C#m
C#m

Friendship dissolves
D
D

And even blood is lost
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

D
D

Where did it begin
G#m
G#m

The way we did each other wrong
C#m
C#m

Troubled water neither one of us
D
D

could swim across
C#m
C#m

D
D

I stopped holding my breath
G#m
G#m

Now I am better off
C#m
C#m

There without a trace
D
D

And you in my head
C#m
C#m

D
D

All the halted motion of
E
E

G#m
G#m

a rebel without a pause
C#m
C#m

What it do is done till you dead and gone
D
D

The grim reaper telling me to
G#m
G#m

swim deeper
Where the people go to lo and
C#m
C#m

behold the soul keeper
D
D

C#m
C#m

D
D

I'm not even breaking out in a sweat
G#m
G#m

Or cold fever but
I'm never paying up on
C#m
C#m

my debt or tolls either
D
D

I'll leave the memories here
C#m
C#m

I won't need 'em
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

If I stop thinking and lie,
now that's freedom
D
D

Your body's part of the
C#m
C#m

G#m
G#m

Maritime museum
C#m
C#m

Face down in the past is
where I'm bein'
D
D

Verse 7
G#m
G#m

And no one's in the light house
C#m
C#m

D
D

You're face down in the ocean
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

And no one's in the light house
D
D

And it seems like you just screamed
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

It's no one there to hear the sound
D
D

And it may feel like there's no one there
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

That cares if you drown
D
D

Face down in the ocean
Verse 8
D
D

If you can't swizzim then ya
G#m
G#m

bound to drizzown
C#m
C#m

D
D

Passing out life jackets bout to go didown
Get down with the captain or
go down with the ship
G#m
G#m

Before the dark abyss
C#m
C#m

I'ma hit you wit dis
Verse 9
D
D

If you can't swizzim then
ya bound to dridown
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

Passing out life jackets bout to go didown
D
D

Get down with the captain
or go down with the ship
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

D
D

Before the dark abyss I'ma hit you wit dis
Outro 1
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

D
D

G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

D
D

G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

D
D

G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

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