Red Upon The Sails chords by Helena Ruth

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

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


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

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


Chorus:
                      Fm
And this is where I’d end it,
                          Ab
I would twist it, I would bend it
                            Eb
I would change the way it’s written
                           Cm
‘Cause I've sung this song before

                     Fm
Do we really have to do this?
                           Ab
Just to raise it, must you bruise it,
                         Eb
God, I hate the way it’s written
                         Cm
‘Cause I wrote this song before

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


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