The Ocean

INTRO: F  Dm7 Dm  G  C

       F                        Dm
When I went to your town on the wide
 open shore
              G                    
Oh, I must confess, I was drawn, I 
    C            F
was drawn to the ocean
  C                Dm
I thought it spoke to me, it said,
         G             Am         
"Look at us, we're not churches, 
   F
not schools,
    G              Am             
Not skating ponds, swimming pools,
  F

                         Dm
And we have lost people, haven't we 
though?"


    G                         C
Oh, that's what the ocean can know 
of a body
    F                          G
And that's when I came back to town
                          Em
This town is a song about you
F              G   Am        F
You don't know how lucky you are
G              Am  F       G
You don't know how much I adore you
Am          F         G         
You are the welcoming back from 
    Dm      G  C
the ocean


                   Dm
I went back to the ocean today
        G                      C  
With my books and my papers, I 
                      F
went to the rocks by the ocean
        C               Dm
But the weather changed quickly
        G                         
Oh, the ocean said, "What are you 
Am        F
trying to find,
        G              Am          
I don't care, I'm not kind, I have 
F
bludgeoned your sailors,
     Dm
I've spat out their keepsakes"


Continues after the ad
         G                   C
Oh, it's ashes to ashes, but always 
the ocean
        F                       
But the ocean can't come to this 
 G
town
                          Em
This town is a song about you
F              G   Am        F
You don't know how lucky you are
G              Am  F       G
You don't know how much I adore you
Am          F         G         
You are the welcoming back from 
    Dm      G  C
the ocean



INTERLUDE: F                   G    
    Am             F    Dm  G  C
           La la lee la la, le la la
 le la la la (3x)  la


        F                         
And the ones that can know you so 
G
well
Are the ones that can swallow you 
Em
whole
F        G        Am        F
I have a good and I have an evil
G             Am         F 
I thought the ocean, the ocean 
            G
thought nothing
Am          F         G         
You are the welcoming back from 
    Dm      G  C    F
the ocean


         Am        Dm
I didn't go back today
  G                       C       
I wanted to show you that I was 
             F
more land than water
  Am           Dm
I went to pick flowers
  G                            Am 
I brought them to you, look at me,
         F
 look at them
           G           Am         
With their salt up the stem, but 
   F
you frowned
                    Dm
When I smiled and I tried to arrange
 them


    G                          C
You said, "Let me tell you the song 
of this town"
           F                   
You said, "Everything closes at 
 G
five.
After that, well, you just got the 
Em
bars."
 F              G   Am           F
"You don't know how precious you are
G        Am              F      
Walking around with your little 
      G
shoes dangling
Am       F       G              
I am the one who lives with the 
Dm
ocean.
               G
"It's where we came from, you know."
"And sometimes I just want to go 
Em
back.
F       G          Am           
After a day, we'll drink 'til 
    F
we're drowning
G           Am          F       
Walk to the ocean, wade in with 
    G
our work-boots
Am          F               
Wade in our work-boots, try to 
   G          C
finish the job."


 F              G   Am           F
"You don't know how precious you are
G        Am      F              
I am the one who lives with the 
G
ocean
Am             F             Am
You don't know how, I am the one
F              G    Am       Dm
You don't know how, I am the one"


INTERLUDE:    (## repeat about 15x -
 fade to end ##)
           F                   G  
           La la lee la la, le la 
      Am
la le la la la