The Tower chords by The Future Islands

🎸 Intro:

Fm   C   C   (x4)


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

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

🎸 Interlude:
Fm   C   C

Fm   C   C


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

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

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

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

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