The Spill Canvas
The Tide
One Fell Swoop
2005
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com
Key: A
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
F#m - 244222
E - 022100
D - xx0232
C#m - x46654
A - x02220
E/G# - 476xxx
Intro: F#m--E-D- x2
Intro:
F#m
And there's three
E
count them three
D
Children playing
F#m
on the beach
They were eager to learn
E D--
To be taught and to teach
Verse 1:
F#m
There's Veronica
She's biting her lip
E
As she watches the waves
D
turn white at the tip
F#m
And there's Vada
Radiating with joy,
E
And luckily she still can't
D D--
stand the sight of a boy
F#m
And lastly there's Dade
His hair dances in the wind
E D
And he's wondering what love is
F#m E D
And why it has to end
Chorus 1:
E F#m
And he can't understand
D A
How everyone goes on breathing
E/G# D
when true love ends
His mother whispers quietly
F#m
Heaven's not a place that
you go when you die
C#m
It's that moment in life
A E D
when you actually feel alive
C#m
So live for the moment
F#m
And take this advice
live by every word
C#m A
Love is just a hoax so forget
E D
anything that you have heard
C#m F#m--E-D--D--D--D--
And live for the moment now
Post Chorus:
F#m E
And there's three count them three
D F#m
Children growing on the beach
They were eager to learn
E D--
To be taught and to teach
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Verse 2:
F#m
There's Veronica
She's licking her lips
E
As she waits for her real
D
first passionate kiss
F#m
And there's Vada
She can't admit her jealousy
E D
Of her sister Veronica and how
she's so pretty (And how
D--
she's so pretty)
F#m
Lastly there's Dade
Still sitting on the dock
E
He ponders his life and
D
he skips his rocks
F#m
And he wonders when his
father will return
E D
But he's not coming back
Chorus 2:
E F#m
And he can't understand
D A
How everyone goes on breathing
E/G# D
when true love ends
His mother whispers quietly
F#m
Heaven's not a place that
you go when you die
C#m
It's that moment in life
A E D
when you actually feel alive
C#m
So live for the moment
F#m
And take this advice
live by every word
C#m A
Love is just a hoax so forget
E D C#m
anything that you have heard
Interlude: F#m--E-D-- x2
forget everything
F#m E
And there's three count them three
D F#m
Children missing on the beach
They were eager to learn
E D--
To be taught and to teach
Verse 3:
F#m
But the sad thing
Is that they never lived
E
passed the age of fifteen
D F#m
Due to neglect from their mother
Who was bed ridden by
E D--
her ex-lover their father
F#m
She didn't even notice
or pay much attention
E
As the tide came in and swept
D
her three into the ocean
F#m
Now all her advice
E D--
it seems useless
Chorus 3:
F#m
No, Heaven's not a place that
you go when you die
C#m
It's that moment in life
A E D
when you actually feel alive
C#m
So live for the moment
F#m
And take this advice
live by every word
C#m A
Love's completely real so forget
E D
anything that you have heard
C#m F#m(hold)
And live for the moment now
