Lifeboats chords by Jorja Smith

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:

Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7    Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7 D#Maj7D#maj7
    And it all falls down, yeah
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7    Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7 D#Maj7D#maj7
    And it all falls down again
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7    Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7 D#Maj7D#maj7
   And it all falls down, yeah
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7    Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7 D#Maj7D#maj7
   And it all falls down


Verse 1:

Gm7Gm7   Am7Am7    Bb majorBb       Bb7Bb7
How can you learn how to swim before you get in?
Cm7Cm7              D#Maj7D#maj7
Sometimes you got to take the plunge just to get in
Gm7Gm7        Am7Am7      Bb majorBb       Bb7Bb7
Life's not full of shallow ends, your house ain't full of armbands
Cm7Cm7              D#Maj7D#maj7
Stay afloat, someone might put their arm out to help you
Gm7Gm7      Am7Am7
I don't know, I would
   Bb majorBb      Bb7Bb7     Cm7Cm7          D#Maj7D#maj7
If I saw somebody drowning in a sea of self-confusion
           Gm7Gm7   Am7Am7         Bb majorBb     Bb7Bb7
I wanna be the one to try and understand why their tide ain't coming in
     Cm7Cm7           D#Maj7D#maj7
And their lighthouse ain't shining, mmm

Chorus:
  Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7  Bb majorBb Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7
So why do we all fall down
     D#Maj7D#maj7
If there's a reason we can stay afloat?
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7  Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7
Why do we watch them drown?
     D#Maj7D#maj7
We're too selfish in the lifeboats
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7  Bb majorBb Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7
Why do we all fall down
      D#Maj7D#maj7
If there's a reason we can stay afloat?
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7  Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7  D#maj
Why do we watch them drown?

Verse 2:

  Gm7Gm7       Am7Am7   Bb majorBb
So why are all the richest staying afloat?
Bb7Bb7          Cm7Cm7               D#Maj7D#maj7
Seeing all my brothers drowning even though they nicked the boat
                Gm7Gm7
Mothership ain't helping anyone
Am7Am7    Bb majorBb       Bb7Bb7       Cm7Cm7
See, the ships are getting bigger, full of greedy wasteful men
    D#Maj7D#maj7             Gm7Gm7   Am7Am7  Bb majorBb
Soaking kids with the lies before they even got to ten
Bb7Bb7     Cm7Cm7       D#Maj7D#maj7
Sailing the internet waves, a tsunami of wires
Gm7Gm7    Am7Am7      Bb majorBb     Bb7Bb7     Cm7Cm7
A augmentedA flood to take us under if we can't afford the life jackets
        D#Maj7D#maj7
Majority don't even have the life jacket
Gm7Gm7   Am7Am7      Bb majorBb    Bb7Bb7   Cm7Cm7
Majority might fall where the tax brackets
         D#Maj7D#maj7
The minority might jump to the next bracket
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7     Bb majorBb    Bb7Bb7    Cm7Cm7
On a form to sign up for a raft and a pay packet
D#Maj7D#maj7
With the same old unemployed age bracket
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7  Bb majorBb      Bb7Bb7       Cm7Cm7
Even money sinks to the bottom when it's waterlogged
 D#Maj7D#maj7
So nobody truly stays afloat

Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7    Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7 D#Maj7D#maj7


Chorus:
  Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7  Bb majorBb Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7
So why do we all fall down
     D#Maj7D#maj7
If there's a reason we can stay afloat?
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7  Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7
Why do we watch them drown?
     D#Maj7D#maj7
We're too selfish in the lifeboats
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7  Bb majorBb Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7
Why do we all fall down
      D#Maj7D#maj7
If there's a reason we can stay afloat?
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7  Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7  D#maj
Why do we watch them drown?


Outro:

Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7    Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7 D#Maj7D#maj7
    And it all falls down, yeah
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7    Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7 D#Maj7D#maj7
    And it all falls down again
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7    Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7 D#Maj7D#maj7
   And it all falls down, yeah
Gm7Gm7 Am7Am7    Bb majorBb  Bb7Bb7 Cm7Cm7 D#Maj7D#maj7
   And it all falls down

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