The Tower chords by The Future Islands

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:

F minorFm  C majorC  C majorC  (x4)


🎸 Verse 1:
F minorFm C majorC      C majorC
   Threw a bottle
F minorFm C majorC       C majorC
   Across the water
F minorFm C majorC       C majorC
   To someone who's
F minorFm C majorC      C majorC
   Thinking of me
F minorFm C majorC      C majorC
  There's a tower
F minorFm C majorC     C majorC
  In the ocean
F minorFm C majorC      C majorC
  Pouring through me
F minorFm C majorC      C majorC
   That's my will and testament

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC   G+G       C majorC      C majorC
I, I, I A minorAm waiting on the other side, sigh
 G+G        C majorC
Looked out into everything and
C majorC    G+G         C majorC          C majorC
I lie, tell myself, "It's nothing", when it's quite right
 G+G         C majorC
Everything grows stronger in the light

🎸 Interlude:
F minorFm  C majorC  C majorC

F minorFm  C majorC  C majorC


🎸 Verse 2:
F minorFm C majorC      C majorC
  When a boy who
F minorFm C majorC       C majorC
   Played with razors
F minorFm C majorC       C majorC
   Met a girl who
F minorFm C majorC    C majorC
  Opened cages
F minorFm C majorC     C majorC
  All the birds flew
F minorFm C majorC        C majorC
   Through the graveyard
F minorFm C majorC       C majorC
   And their laughter
F minorFm C majorC     C majorC
   Was contagious

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC   G+G       C majorC      C majorC
I, I, I A minorAm waiting on the other side, sigh
 G+G        C majorC
Looked out into everything and
C majorC    G+G         C majorC          C majorC
I lie, tell myself, "It's nothing", when it's quite right
 G+G         C majorC
Everything grows stronger in the light

🎸 Post-Chorus:
B#mB#m C majorC C majorC
     In the light
B#mB#m C majorC C majorC
     In the light
B#mB#m C majorC G+G       B#mB#m C majorC C majorC
     In the light

🎸 Bridge:
B#mB#m C majorC  C majorC       B#mB#m    C majorC  G+G
    Standing at the sea and swallowing
B#mB#m C majorC       C majorC
   Without you, beside you
B#mB#m   C majorC    G+G
 But you knew what I knew

🎸 Chorus:
C majorC   G+G       C majorC      C majorC
I, I, I A minorAm waiting on the other side, sigh
 G+G        C majorC
Looked out into everything and
C majorC    G+G         C majorC          C majorC
I lie, tell myself, "It's nothing", when it's quite right
 G+G        C majorC
Everything goes, everything grows
C majorC   G+G       C majorC
I, I, I A minorAm watching, I A minorAm waiting
C majorC   G+G       C majorC
I, I, I A minorAm waiting, I'm not breaking
C majorC    G+G         C majorC        C majorC
I lie, tell myself, "It's okay", when it's not quite
 G+G         C majorC
Everything grows stronger in the light