Standard Tuning
G# C# G# C#
I'd like to know you as a promise kept well
G# C# G#
B ballast of incessant dispel
G# C# G# C#
B stone in the water, a stillness in time
G# Fm A#m Fm
The peace that I'd left home to find ~
A#m Fm A#m Fm
To find ~ I ~
G# C# G# C#
To find ~ To find ~
G# C# G# G# C# G#
What must I say to keep you all day, any day?
G# C# G# D#
What must I say to change your mind
Fm G#
Maybe if I could turn off the tape
C# G#
Rub the death from my face
C# G# D#
Head home, and forget all my songs
Fm G# C# G#
I'm changing the shape of this miserable place
C# G# D#
Maybe then, you'd wanna solve me
G# C# G# C#
'Cause I'd like to tell you I've been dripping with sin
G# C# G# C#
Your skiff left this beach once again
G# C# G# C#
I turned from the water, not a thought in my mind
G# Fm A#m
Of the peace that I'd left home to find
Fm A#m Fm A#m
I ~ I ~
G# C# G# G# C# G#
And what must I say to keep you all day, any day?
G# C# G# D#
What must I say to change your mind?
G#
Maybe if I could stop
Fm G# C# G#
Turn off the tape, rub the death from my face
C# G# D#
Head home, and forget all my songs
Fm G# C# G#
I'm changing the shape of this miserable place
C# G# D#
And maybe then you'd wanna solve me
G# C# G# G# C# G#
What must I say to keep you all day, any day?
G# C# G# D#
What must I say to change your mind?
G#
Maybe if I could stop
~The End~
If you're not a fan of bar chords, then you can tune a half-step down and play
the chords a half-step up. (G, C, Em, Am, etc...) I hope this helps.