This Island Life chords by Violent Femmes

Chords with lyrics

Key: B minorBm

🎸 Intro:

B minorBm


🎸 Verse 1:
B minorBm
This tea's too strong for me
B minorBm
As I await your company
E MajorE
I had too much sun today
B minorBm
Ocean waters wash away
B minorBm
Nothing but the present
B minorBm
Presenting its presence

🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA
This island life
             B minorBm
Separate my right from my wrong


🎸 Verse 2:
B minorBm
No I am not pagan
             F# minorF#m
But my heart has been forsaken
    E MajorE
And the hand of God was on my mind
  B minorBm
It took some time from time to time
         F# minorF#m
Now in the course I know
B minorBm
Time itself will go when


🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA
This island life
              B minorBm
Separates my right from my wrong

Guitar 🎸 Solo:
B minorBm  F# minorF#m B minorBm A augmentedA B minorBm   F# minorF#m
B minorBm F# minorF#m


🎸 Verse 3:
B minorBm       F# minorF#m
You forgot your shoes and I
B minorBm      F# minorF#m
I have sent a message but I
    E MajorE
There's so many stars in the sky
B minorBm
It's the truths that will not lie
B minorBm
There's a you wild native maiden
B minorBm
Running mad and barefoot to the sea until


🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA
This island life
              B minorBm
Separates my rights from my wrongs
A augmentedA
This island life
                  B minorBm
Finally separates my right from my wrong


🎸 Verse 4:
B minorBm
This tea's too strong for me
B minorBm
As I await more company
E MajorE
I had too much sun today
B minorBm
Dream of lands lying far away
B minorBm
Pregnant with the present
B minorBm
Presenting its presents


🎸 Chorus:
A augmentedA
This island life
             B minorBm
Separate my right from my wrong
A augmentedA
This island life
                B minorBm
Will separate my rights from my songs
B minorBm
Separate my right from my wrong


🎸 Outro:
B minorBm

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