G -  320003
Am - x02210
F -  133211


[Verse 1]
     C
If I wasn't just one kid
standing on another kid's
G
shoulders in a trench coat
      F
you'd be in trouble buddy.
   C
If I was an innertube rolling
                   G
down the quad city river
in the Summer I'd be
F
hauling something tubby


[Verse 2]
       C
To the coast where the bones
peek up like the ship ribs
  G
I played hide and seek with
    F
the bleach boned kids
     C
They asked who I was
and so I ran and hid.
     G
They asked who I was
         F          F
and so I ran and hid.


[Chorus 1]
       C            G
In the belly of the whale
       F
with a candle and a pen
       C            G
In the belly of the whale
       F
with a candle and a pen
         Am       C
And it's my lucky day
         G          F
when the tide rolls in
    C      G
The new ribcages of
    F             F
the dead young men


[Verse 3]
C               G
  Mandibles and bows and sterns
Am               G
Captains that it seems ain't
F                   C
never gonna learn I gotta go
             G
back I don't care if it was
             Am       G
killing me I gotta go back
         F
you're unbearable like this


[Verse 4]
  C        G           F
I gotta go back cuz goddamnit
               C
you're right I didn't wanna
G               F
wake up in this place tonight
C         G       F
Now all I hear is bitching
            C
and moaning Fools barely
G               F
keeping up with where
                 F    F
they're come and going


[Guitar Solo]
C G Am G F  x2


[Bridge]
     Am
This tired argument is the
G                    F
only one you've ever known
    Am
I'm gonna get going my
G
path is a showing
       C    G   F
It's a long way home


[Chorus 2/Outro]
       C            G
To the belly of the whale
       F
with a candle and a pen
       C            G
To the belly of the whale
       F
with a candle and a pen
         Am       C
And it's my lucky day
         G          F
when the tide rolls in
    C      G
The new ribcages of
    F
the dead young men I write
    C      G
The new ribcages of
    F
the dead young men yeah
    C      G
The new ribcages of
    F
the dead young men come out
    Am     G
The new ribcages of
    F
the dead young men
    C      G
The new ribcages of
    F    G     C  C
the dead young men