Standard Tuning
F A# F A#
I'd like to know you as a promise kept well
F A# F
G# ballast of incessant dispel
F A# F A#
G# stone in the water, a stillness in time
F Dm Gm Dm
The peace that I'd left home to find ~
Gm Dm Gm Dm
To find ~ I ~
F A# F A#
To find ~ To find ~
F A# F F A# F
What must I say to keep you all day, any day?
F A# F C
What must I say to change your mind
Dm F
Maybe if I could turn off the tape
A# F
Rub the death from my face
A# F C
Head home, and forget all my songs
Dm F A# F
I'm changing the shape of this miserable place
A# F C
Maybe then, you'd wanna solve me
F A# F A#
'Cause I'd like to tell you I've been dripping with sin
F A# F A#
Your skiff left this beach once again
F A# F A#
I turned from the water, not a thought in my mind
F Dm Gm
Of the peace that I'd left home to find
Dm Gm Dm Gm
I ~ I ~
F A# F F A# F
And what must I say to keep you all day, any day?
F A# F C
What must I say to change your mind?
F
Maybe if I could stop
Dm F A# F
Turn off the tape, rub the death from my face
A# F C
Head home, and forget all my songs
Dm F A# F
I'm changing the shape of this miserable place
A# F C
And maybe then you'd wanna solve me
F A# F F A# F
What must I say to keep you all day, any day?
F A# F C
What must I say to change your mind?
F
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.