Oceans And Engines chords by Niki Niki

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:

Cm Bb Ab Eb


Verse 1:

Cm                Bb                         Ab            Eb
Saturday sunset-- we’re lying on my bed with five hours to go
Cm                   Bb                       Ab                   Eb
Fingers entwined and so were our minds crying 'I don’t want you to go'
Cm                           Bb                        Ab         Eb
You wiped away tears but not fears under the still and clear indigo
           Cm                       Bb                           Ab                 Eb
You said, ‘Baby don’t cry, we’ll be fine, you’re the one thing I swear I can’t outgrow’

Verse 2:

Cm                                Bb                          Ab                      Eb
My mother said the younger me was a 'Pretending' prodigy well nothing, then, much has changed
Cm                                       Bb                           Ab
Coz while you’re wolfing down liquor, my soul it gets sicker, but I’m stickin' to the screenplay, gotta say
                     Ab
I’m okay but answer this babe:
Cm                 Bb                                  Ab              Eb
How is it now that somehow you’re a stranger; you were mine just yesterday—
Cm                              Bb                       Ab                   Eb
I prayed the block in my airway dissipates and instead deters your airplane’s way


Pre-Chorus 1:

Fm
But heaven denied
        Ab
Destiny decried
Fm
Something beautiful died
    Ab
too soon


Chorus:

                Eb
But I’m letting gooooooooo
           Cm
I’m givin’ up the ghost
                 Ab
But don’t get me wrong
             Ab
I’ll always love you that’s why
                 Bb
I wrote you this very last song
                Eb               Cm
I guess this is where we say goodbye
                Ab
I know I’ll be alright
                Bb
Someday I’ll be fine
             Cm
but just not tonight


Verse 3:

Cm                      Bb                       Ab                      Eb
Plunging into all kinds of diversions like blush wine and sonorous soirees
     Cm                   Bb                      Ab                       Eb
But even with gin and surgin’ adrenaline I see you’re all that can intoxicate
Cm                          Bb                      Ab              Eb
Oceans and Engines, you’re skilled at infringin' on great love affairs
Cm                                     Bb                              Ab           Eb
'cause now my heart’s home -- all I’ve known -- is long gone and 10 thousand miles away


Pre-Chorus 2:

            E      G  Ab  Bb
And I’m not okay


Chorus:

                Eb
But I’m letting gooooooooo
           Cm
I’m givin’ up the ghost
                 Ab
But don’t get me wrong
             Ab
I’ll always love you that’s why
                 Bb
I wrote you this very last song
                Eb               Cm
I guess this is where we say goodbye
                Ab
I know I’ll be alright
       N.C.
But just not-


Bridge:

Cm                                        Bb                          Ab       Eb
Tonight was the first time I stared into seas of beguiling sepia two years ago
        Eb
and the first time
Cm                                         Bb                                 Ab           Eb
I learned real world superpowers lived in three words and could revitalize my frayin’ bones
     Eb
Now what do you do when
     Cm                                                       Bb
Your pillar crumbled down, you’ve lost all solid ground, both dreams and demons drowned, and this void is all
                 Ab                  Eb
you’ve found and doubts light it aglow?
               Cm
I have so many questions
Bb                                          Ab
But I’m pourin them into the ocean and I’m starting up my engine


Chorus:

                Eb
and I’m letting go
           Cm
I’m givin’ up your ghost
               Ab
It’s come to a close
                                Bb
I marked the end with this last song I wrote


Outro:

            Eb
I’m letting go
            Cm
This is the last falsetto
                   Am     Bb          Eb
I’ll ever sing to you my great, lost love.