The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future chords by 
Los Campesinos! 
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Key: G# minor•
Intro 1
G#m
B
G#m
B
E
C#m
E
F#
E
G#m
F#
A
Verse 1
G#m
I grabbed
hold of her wrist and my hand closed from tip to tip
B
I said, you've taken the diet too far,
you've got to let it slip
G#m
But she's not eating again,
she's not eating again
B
She's not eating again,
she's not eating again
Verse 2
E
I ask her to speak French and then
C#m
E
I need her to trans late
F#
I get the feeling she makes the
meaning more significant
E
G#m
She was always far too pretty for me
F#
To believe in a single word she said,
believe a word she said
A
Verse 3
C#m
At fourteen her mother died
in a routine operation
E
From al lergic reaction to a
general anesthetic
C#m
Spent the rest of her teens
experimenting with prescriptions
E
In a futile attempt to know
Verse 4
more than the doctors
A
She said, one day to leave her
B
Sand up to her shoulders
C#m
A
waiting for the tide
C#m
To drag her to the ocean,
B
to another sea's shore
Bm
B
A
This thing hurts like hell but
what did you ex pect
C#m
Verse 5
E
A
E
And all you can hear is the sound
A
of your own heart
E
F#
And all you can feel is your lungs
B
C#m
flood and the blood course
E
A
But oh I can see five hundred
E
A
years dead set ahead of me
E
Five hundred behind,
F#
C#m
a thousand years in perfect symmetry
Interlude 1
G#m
B
G#m
B
Verse 6
E
Best known left wrist right finger
through all the southern states
F#
On every video games machine
B
they call her triple A
F#
E
There were racists on the radio try
G#m
ing to give up smoking
F#
The chat show host, he joked
B
You have to wait for the
government pro gram
F#
You
Verse 7
A
talk about your politics
And I wonder if you could
be one of them
C#m
But you could nev er kiss a Tory boy
Without wanting to cut
off your tongue again
Verse 8
E
A good place to look to the future is
When you are sat at the sea
C#m
With the salt up to your ankles
And a view of the end of the pier
Verse 9
E
You may look down at your model's feet
And wish that you'd just float away
A
And the weather here is overcast
E
And the sea is the same shade of gray
Verse 10
B
So the land scape before you looks
just like the edge of the world
A
But to the left side and the right side
C#m
Either way is a crazy golf course
B
A
The sea is a good place to
think of the future
C#m
Verse 11
E
A
E
And all you can hear is the sound
of your own heart
F#
And all you can feel is your lungs
B
C#m
flood and the blood course
E
A
But oh I can see five hundred
E
years dead set ahead of me
Five hundred behind,
F#
F#sus4
F#
a thousand years in perfect symmetry
G#m
E
A thousand years no getting
rid of me
A
E
B
A thousand years in perfect symmetry
E
Outro 1
C#m
C#m
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG#m B E C#m F#...
G#m
B
E
C#m
F#
A
Bm
F#sus4
Capo: 4
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