The Coral Castle

Em B7 Em B7


[Verse 1]
Em                     B7
Late one night I had a notion
   Em                         D
An epiphany would be a better word
      Am                              C
So I stumbled in the dark down to the ocean
      B7                                Em   D
And I pulled my broken heart out of the surf

      Em                              B7
I had told her I did not have much to offer
          Em                                D
And I had told her I would treat her like a queen
      Am                                C
But I guess I wasn't worth what I would cost her
       B7                                  Em  D
So the night has brought me to this coral reef


[Chorus]
    C                        G
So down to the water I will come
   C                                G
To raise for her this castle with my hands
    C                            A
And steal away before the morning sun
               D               C               G  C G B7
Cause I don't need her love to love her all I can


[Verse 2]
   Em                         B7
So night on night and year on year
        Em                              D
Well, I worked until my hands no longer bled
      Am                         C
And I let the ocean bear away my tears
        B7                                   Em   D
So that she would know that I could love her best


[Chorus]
      C                            G
And a desert's just a sea without a shore
      C                             G
And a lonely man at worst is still a man
    C                         A
And I ain't gonna cry for her no more
              D                C               G  C G B7
Cause I don't need her love to love her all I can


[Verse 3]
        Em                               B7
I often dreamed I saw her face among the people
              Em                           D
Who'd come to see the coral fortress I had built
      Am                             C
But it may as well have been another seagull
         B7                              Em   D
And the castle is there waiting for her still


[Chorus]
    C                        G
So down to the water I will come
   C                                G
To raise for her this castle with my hands
    C                            A
And steal away before the morning sun
               D               C               G
Cause I don't need her love to love her all I can
             D                C               G  C G D G
Well I don't need her love to love her all I can