Tide Pools
View chords used in this chart
Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: DCapotraste:
2nd traste
[Chords]
D/A x00232
Dsus4/G 300233 (G note played with middle finger)
Dsus2/F# 200230 (F# note played with thumb)
Em7* 022030
[Intro]
D/A Dsus4/G Dsus2/F# Em7* x2
[Verse 1]
D/A Dsus4/G
Have you seen the tide pools on the coast
Dsus2/F# Em7*
They're miniature worlds constructed carefully?
D/A Dsus4/G
And each tiny part fits to the others like
Dsus2/F# Em7*
The track list on a mix cd
D/A Dsus4/G
And each one needs the others
Dsus2/F# Em7*
To stay trapped there to survive,
D/A Dsus4/G
Or maybe that’s just what it feels like
Dsus2/F# Em7*
When you’re stuck there on the inside.
D/A Dsus4/G
And my friend wove me a blanket
Dsus2/F# Em7*
And on their couch there they explained how it’s just
D/A Dsus4/G
The tension between the fibers that bears
Dsus2/F# Em7*
Such fantastic weight,
D/A Dsus4/G
How the patterns of their bodies
Dsus2/F# Em7*
Over and over intertwined
D/A Dsus4/G
Pulls our glances tight at some february
Dsus2/F# Em7*
House show on the east side.
[Verse 2]
D/A Dsus4/G
But was it just something in the way I looked at you,
Dsus2/F# Em7*
Or was it burning in the words I sang to you?
D/A Dsus4/G
Or was it buried in the very special
Dsus2/F# Em7*
Kind of isolation that we shared?
D/A Dsus4/G
You know you might be my silver key
Dsus2/F# Em7*
That I lost in Arizona
D/A Dsus4/G
Or maybe you’re my catalytic converter
Dsus2/F# Em7*
And maybe I’m out fifteen hundred dollars.
D/A Dsus4/G
But in the darkness beneath that blanket
Dsus2/F# Em7*
I will find a place to hide,
D/A Dsus4/G
A shelter from the world
Dsus2/F# Em7*
Like a pool built by the tide.
D/A Dsus4/G
And just let the missed calls from my landlord
Dsus2/F# Em7*
Pile thirty thousand high,
D/A Dsus4/G
Don’t you know I’ll be okay just give me a
Dsus2/F# Em7*
Couple of weeks or so
[Verse 3]
D/A Dsus4/G
Cause it’s running wild in the way you look at me,
Dsus2/F# Em7*
It’s writhing in the way you challenge me,
D/A Dsus4/G
And it’s woven in the way your ocean heart
Dsus2/F# Em7*
Just drags me out again.
D/A Dsus4/G
Don’t you know that you’re the tension before a jump
Dsus2/F# Em7*
Into a summer river from a bridge,
D/A Dsus4/G
And you’re the hunger in the drunken light
Dsus2/F# Em7*
That pours out of my fridge.
D/A Dsus4/G
Don’t you know that you could hotwire this old haywire heart and
Dsus2/F# Em7*
Drive it off a fucking cliff,
D/A Dsus4/G Dsus2/F# Em7*
I know I’ve always been good at getting your old truck to start
[Outro]
D/A Dsus4/G Dsus2/F# Em7* x2
D/A
How to play Tide Pools
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What is the starting chord?
The first identified chord is E. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.