Watching The Waves chords by David Gray

INTRO:
Cm  Ab6/C  Cm
Eb  Fm/Eb  Eb
Cm  Ab6/C  Cm
Eb  Fm/C   Eb
Cm  Ab6/C  Cm
Eb  Fm/C   Eb
Cm  Ab6/C  Cm
Bb  Ab


Verse 1:

Cm   Ab6/C  Cm         Eb
 I'm here watching the waves

Cm        Ab6/C  Cm    Eb
 Just how long can it be

Cm    Ab/C   Cm     Eb
 Till that melody strays

Cm       Ab6/C       Cm  Bb Ab
 Through my mind and I'm cancelled

Cm            Ab6/C    Cm     Eb Ab6/Eb Eb
 Can't see no wood for the trees

Cm          Ab6/C        Cm     Eb
 Can't tell no land from the sky

Cm           Ab6/C    Cm     Eb Ab6/Eb Eb
 When you're in up to your knees

Cm        Ab6/C        Cm      Bb   Ab
 You soon find out who your friends are

Cm  Eb  Cm  Eb


VERSE II:

Cm       Ab6/C        Cm      Eb
 Ah, for the taste of it sweet

Cm   Ab6/C          Cm     Eb
 One more time from the top

Cm        Ab6/C          Cm        Eb
 Thoughts like crumbs in the sheets

Cm            Ab6/C         Cm   Eb
 Words thrown like coins in a cup

Cm        Ab6/C         Cm     Eb
 Just one more house in the rain

Cm        Ab6/C         Cm    Eb
 Just one more spoonful of salt

Cm       Ab6/C     Cm   Eb
 And now I'm at it again

Cm       Ab6/C   Cm   Bb Ab
 Banging on like it's my fault


CHORUS:

               Cm
Everything you are

               Eb
Everything you are

               Bb        Cm    Eb
Everything you are I long to be

               Cm
Everything you are

               Eb
Everything you are

               Bb G        Cm  Eb
Everything you are I long to be
Cm  Eb


VERSE III:

Cm      Ab6/C    Cm     Eb
 I gave it all I could give

Cm      Ab6/C          Cm   Eb
 I took that ghost for my bride

Cm        Ab6/C         Cm   Eb
 Went day by day trying to live

Cm       Ab6/C        Eb
 With my heart on the outside

Cm         Ab6/C        Cm   Eb
 I watched the shape of it rise

Cm        Ab6/C             Cm   Eb
 To dance like wind through the wheat

Cm         Ab6/C          Cm   Eb
 And steal the light from your eyes

Cm      Ab6/C    Cm  Bb Ab
 In the space of a heartbeat
Eb

PRE-CHORUS:

Bb                     Cm
 Everything fills with distance

Eb               Bb  Cm
 Yeah, everything


CHORUS:

               Cm
Everything you are

               Eb
Everything you are

               Bb            Cm
Everything you are I long to be

               Cm
Everything you are

               Eb
Everything you are

               Bb            Cm
Everything you are I long to be

               Cm
Everything you are

               Eb
Everything you are

               Bb            Cm
Everything you are I long to be

               Cm
Everything you are

               Eb
Everything you are

               Bb G          Cm
Everything you are I long to be
Cm  Eb  Cm  Eb


OUTRO:

Cm                            Eb
 Songs that push through the dirt

Cm                           Eb
 Ploughing these roads into fields

Cm                          Eb
 Sounding the notes of the words

Cm                          Bb Ab  N.C.
 Till everything fills with distance