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