Spill Canvas – Tide chords

The Spill Canvas
The Tide
One Fell Swoop
2005
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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#mAnd there's three 
           Ecount them three 
DChildren playing 
       F#mon the beach
They were eager to learn
      E             D--To be taught and to teach


Verse 1:
          F#mThere's Veronica
She's biting her lip 
       EAs she watches the waves 
     Dturn white at the tip
            F#mAnd there's Vada
Radiating with joy,
         EAnd luckily she still can't 
          D             D--stand the sight of a boy
                   F#mAnd lastly there's Dade
His hair dances in the wind 
        E               DAnd he's wondering what love is
    F#m          E DAnd why it has to  end


Chorus 1:
    E                  F#mAnd he can't understand
    D                AHow everyone goes on breathing 
     E/G#      Dwhen true love ends
His mother whispers quietly
F#mHeaven's not a place that 
you go when you die
          C#mIt's that moment in life 
         A        E     Dwhen you actually feel alive
   C#mSo live for the moment
    F#mAnd take this advice
live by every word
C#m                       ALove is just a hoax so forget 
   E                   Danything that you have heard
    C#m                 F#m--E-D--D--D--D--And live for the moment now


Post Chorus:
            F#m              EAnd there's three count them three
D                       F#mChildren growing on the beach
They were eager to learn
      E             D--To be taught and to teach


Verse 2:
          F#mThere's Veronica
She's licking her lips
       EAs she waits for her real
      Dfirst passionate kiss
            F#mAnd there's Vada
She can't admit her jealousy
       E                   DOf her sister Veronica and how 
she's so pretty (And how 
                D--she's so pretty) 
               F#mLastly there's Dade
Still sitting on the dock 
   EHe ponders his life and 
    Dhe skips his rocks
       F#mAnd he wonders when his 
father will return
E          D  But he's not coming back 


Chorus 2:
    E                  F#mAnd he can't understand
    D                AHow everyone goes on breathing 
     E/G#      Dwhen true love ends
His mother whispers quietly
F#mHeaven's not a place that 
you go when you die
          C#mIt's that moment in life 
         A        E     Dwhen you actually feel alive
   C#mSo live for the moment
    F#mAnd take this advice
live by every word
C#m                       ALove is just a hoax so forget 
   E                   D    C#manything that you have heard


Interlude: F#m--E-D-- x2forget everything


            F#m              EAnd there's three count them three
D                       F#mChildren missing on the beach
They were eager to learn
      E             D--To be taught and to teach


Verse 3:
        F#mBut the sad thing
Is that they never lived 
                  Epassed the age of fifteen
    D                     F#mDue to neglect from their mother
Who was bed ridden by 
       E             D--her ex-lover their father
    F#mShe didn't even notice
or pay much attention
       EAs the tide came in and swept 
    Dher three into the ocean 
    F#mNow all her advice
   E     D--it seems useless 


Chorus 3:
    F#mNo, Heaven's not a place that 
you go when you die
          C#mIt's that moment in life 
         A        E     Dwhen you actually feel alive
   C#mSo live for the moment
    F#mAnd take this advice
live by every word
       C#m                   ALove's completely real so forget 
   E                   Danything that you have heard
    C#m                    F#m(hold)And live for the moment now