Key: B
Introduction:
Bb F/A
Take a breath take a long look around
Gm
Before you step
Eb
'Cause the tide is coming
Bb
Swallowing the ground-
F/A F Gm
And there's no way to tell if we will drown tonight
Eb6 Eb7
Or we'll be found tonight
Bb F/A
Come in close if the current gets us
Gm
Then it gets us both
Eb
And we can't wait here anymore
Gm7 Eb7
So if the waves come, let 'em take us
Bb F4 F
As they cover you and me, and they pull us underneath
Gm7 Eb Bb/D F/C
I hope that fate will forgive us for tempting the sea
Gm7 Eb7
I hope that they won't forget us
Bb F/A
But we can't go back to the way it used to be
Bb F/A
Take it in take a good look at
Gm
What it might have been.
Eb Bb
As we're swept into the water from the shore
F/A Gm
Because there's no way they can tell us that we can't have more
Eb
Because we can have more
Gm7 Eb7
As the waves come, let 'em take us
Bb F4 F
As they cover you and me, and they pull us underneath
Gm7 Eb Bb/D F/C
I hope that fate will forgive us for tempting the sea
Gm7 Eb7
I hope that they won't forget us
Bb F/A
No we can't go back to the way it used to be
Eb Bb F/A Eb
So certain, where it would take us
Bb F/A Gm7
So sure that we were never lost
F/A Bb Eb
To notice whether we'll be drowned tonight or found tonight
Gm7 Eb7
So as the waves come, let 'em take us
Bb F4 F
As they cover you and me, and they pull us underneath
Gm7 Eb7
It takes the shape of who will save us
Bb
When it leaves it's hard to know
F4 F
But I will not let you go
Gm7 Eb Bb/D F/C
I hope that fate will forgive us for tempting the sea
Gm7 Eb7
I hope that they won't forget us
Bb F/A
No we can't go back to the way it used to be
Gm7 Eb7
I hope that they won't forget us
Bb F/A Eb
No we can't go back to the way it used to be