Key: D# minor
Intro 1
Am
Eaug
E
Eaug
E
Em
G
Em
F#dim
F
Am
E
Am
Summer passed by before
Verse 1
Eaug
I could bat an eye
Eaug
E
Tequila sun sets and bleak sunrises
G
There are no more long days now,
Em
no more prize fighting
F#dim
I’ll even give up on the drinking,
just please no more surprises
F
I see her wave to me,
covered it from A to Z
E
Am
E
With a look so heavenly that
she’s no longer giving me
Am
Ships
Verse 2
pass by outside the
window in my room
Eaug
They only know where they’ve been
E
and where they’re going to
Em
G
They pass so mightily,
Em
steady in their gaze
F#dim
They pass by each other
without so much as a wave
F
Ships in the night are we,
E
convinced we’re gonna be
Am
E
Reunited come the day
Am
My brother, how you been while I’ve been
Verse 3
Am
E
blinded by my own
Eaug
Worries and stories and this sense
E
that I’m alone
Em
G
Heaven zips by a million
Em
more ships in the night
F#dim
And and trillion tons of gases
Verse 4
from a billion silly asses
F
And I still pray for the masses as
we fight the bloody fight
E
Am
E
But bodies cannot stop these jacked up,
gakked up ships in the night
Am
And I reach out in the darkness
for somebody I might hold
Eaug
I reach out to the cosmos
E
by staring at my phone
Em
G
Em
I reach a state of ecstasy, I return
Verse 5
to despair
F#dim
I remain educated,
well-informed, and and unaware
F
But my sister, my sister,
I swear that I am good
Esus4
Am
Reach your arms around me and tell
E
me that I’m understood
Am
I can’t believe the things for which
Verse 6
Am
Eaug
I'm forced to take a stand
E
I can’t believe that I’m the problem,
Eaug
E
Em
not the plan
G
I can’t believe that we
Em
elected that man
F#dim
Yes I can, yes I can,
yes I can, yes I can
F
Ships in the night are we,
miss other entirely
Am
E
Am
From cradle to the grave
E
without so much as a wave
Verse 7
Am
And my my, hey hey,
looks like the sky is falling down
Eaug
No, it's my time, it's your time,
E
it's all just coming 'round
Em
Run up the mountain and hide
out while you can
F#dim
There's a storm coming full of lonely
disaffected angry men
F
And father time knows the way
the cancer grows inside of me
E
Am
And who will hold my hand when I'm
E
in my final bed
Am
When ships in the night are we
Verse 8
Eaug
Ships in the night are we
E
G
Em
Miss each other entirely
C
F#dim
Ships in the night are we
F
Someone shine your light
on me
Am
Someone shine your light
E
on me
Am
Ships in the night are we
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