INTRO: FDm7DmGCFDm
When I went to your town on the wide open shore
GCF
Oh, I must confess, I was drawn, I was drawn to the ocean
CDm
I thought it spoke to me, it said,
GAmF
"Look at us, we're not churches, not schools,
GAmF
Not skating ponds, swimming pools,
Dm
And we have lost people, haven't we though?"
GC
Oh, that's what the ocean can know of a body
FG
And that's when I came back to town
Em
This town is a song about you
FGAmF
You don't know how lucky you are
GAmFG
You don't know how much I adore you
AmFGDmGC
You are the welcoming back from the ocean
Dm
I went back to the ocean today
GCF
With my books and my papers, I went to the rocks by the ocean
CDm
But the weather changed quickly
GAmF
Oh, the ocean said, "What are you trying to find,
GAmF
I don't care, I'm not kind, I have bludgeoned your sailors,
Dm
I've spat out their keepsakes"
GC
Oh, it's ashes to ashes, but always the ocean
FG
But the ocean can't come to this town
Em
This town is a song about you
FGAmF
You don't know how lucky you are
GAmFG
You don't know how much I adore you
AmFGDmGC
You are the welcoming back from the ocean
INTERLUDE: F G Am F Dm G C
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FG
And the ones that can know you so well
Em
Are the ones that can swallow you whole
FGAmF
I have a good and I have an evil
GAmFG
I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing
AmFGDmGCF
You are the welcoming back from the ocean
AmDm
I didn't go back today
GCF
I wanted to show you that I was more land than water
AmDm
I went to pick flowers
GAmF
I brought them to you, look at me, look at them
GAmF
With their salt up the stem, but you frowned
Dm
When I smiled and I tried to arrange them
GC
You said, "Let me tell you the song of this town"
FG
You said, "Everything closes at five.
Em
After that, well, you just got the bars."
FGAmF
"You don't know how precious you are
GAmFG
Walking around with your little shoes dangling
AmFGDm
I am the one who lives with the ocean.
G
"It's where we came from, you know."
Em
"And sometimes I just want to go back.
FGAmF
After a day, we'll drink 'til we're drowning
GAmFG
Walk to the ocean, wade in with our work-boots
AmFGC
Wade in our work-boots, try to finish the job."
FGAmF
"You don't know how precious you are
GAmFG
I am the one who lives with the ocean
AmFAm
You don't know how, I am the one
FGAmDm
You don't know how, I am the one"
INTERLUDE: (## repeat about 15x - fade to end ##)
FGAm
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