Key: E minor•
Verse 1
B
Em
Am
Em
Am
From
the point he gazed from the choice was made,
The oily cave seemed to breathe on
him through gravestone jaws
he weighed up his coin
Em
Somewhere a blue-eyed girl girl in the world
is just waiting for a boy
up to the grey cave floor
ever escaping this fort
when ordered to take the shore
Em
'Why on earth', as he wandered the warmth,
Verse 2
'am I obeying this coin?'
you'd normally avoid
Am
And promise me you'll follow what it says
Verse 3
or swim the swell of the sea?
like certain death to he
- it never occurred to be very easy
the coin and it twirled to his feet
the coin now aiming for the waves
as it raged and rained
he was drowning in the spray
Em
Blue-eyed girls girls he should have been
Verse 4
acquainted with but for shouting and flailing
you'd normally avoid
Am
And promise me you'll follow what it says
Verse 5
chewed-up and and foolish
Staggers back to his dad
who's too cool to be
B
Baug
So he says 'why did you have me
I was just as afraid as you
people and places ever new
of my baby son's future
if you could ever make do
that rock looking angry at me
a man you've ended up being
swim, which I hadn't had in me
proudest a man has ever been
Verse 6
you'd normally avoid
Outro 1
Whatever it says
Em
Em
Em
Em
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ChordsB Em Am Baug
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