Red Upon The Sails chords by Helena Ruth

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
Eb MajorEb             F minorFm
Is there blood beneath your nails?
AbAb            Eb MajorEb
Sun casting gold upon the sails
Eb MajorEb          F minorFm
Are you waiting on an answer
AbAb      Eb MajorEb
That doesn’t come?


Verse 2:
Eb MajorEb              F minorFm
And as you’re standing by the water
AbAb             Eb MajorEb
Gods, I too have thought...
Eb MajorEb             F minorFm
But I’m still waiting on an answer,
       AbAb Eb MajorEb
That doesn’t come.

Bridge:
Eb MajorEb              F minorFm
And as you’re standing in the water
  AbAb
  A augmentedA thousand frames I’ve seen
   F minorFm                Eb MajorEb
  A augmentedA dozen times and words I’ve heard before
          F minorFm
That this is the betrayal,
             AbAb
It’s the blood beneath my nails
             Eb MajorEb
It’s a train run off the rails
            C minorCm
But I’ve been this way before.


Chorus:
           F minorFm
And this is where I’d end it,
             AbAb
I would twist it, I would bend it
              Eb MajorEb
I would change the way it’s written
              C minorCm
‘Cause I've sung this song before

           F minorFm
Do we really have to do this?
              AbAb
Just to raise it, must you bruise it,
             Eb MajorEb
God, I hate the way it’s written
             C minorCm
‘Cause I wrote this song before

               F minorFm
And as you’re kneeling in the water
               AbAb
(Gods, I, too, have thought.)
              Eb MajorEb
But I’m still waiting on an answer…
             Eb MajorEb
And I'm not sure that it comes.


Verse 3:
              Bb majorBb
Is there blood beneath your nails?
AbAb            Eb MajorEb
Sun sinking red upon the sails
Eb MajorEb             Bb majorBb
Are you still waiting on an answer… ?