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On The Flip Of A Coin by The Streets

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♫ Intro:

(La la la la la)
Em

♫ Verse 1:

       Am7
From the point he gazed, from the choice was made
But walk the cave or the shore
    Em
The oily cave seemed to breathe on him from gravestone jaws
Am7
His little hand grasped in anguish as he weighed up his coin
Em
Somewhere a blue eyed girl in the world is just waiting for a boy

♫ Verse 2:

Am7
Footprints trailed as if trod by slaves up to the gray cave floor
Em
But not one graze from anything ever escaping this fort
       Am7
So with coin on hand his joy came back when ordered to take the shore
Em
Why on earth, as he wandered the warmth am I obeying this coin

Am7                                Am
Turn your life on the flip of this coin
Em
Turn upside, a choice you'd normally avoid
    Am
And promise me you'll follow what it says
Em
Whatever it says

♫ Verse 3:

       Am7
Again, walk within the trusted beach or swim the swell of the sea
     Em
And again the scarier alternative looked like certain death to he
Am7
He'd never learnt to skill of swimming, it never occurred to be very easy
    Em
And again he winced as he flipped his coin and it twirled to his feet

[V4]

Am7                                      Am
How is this sane? He blamed the coin now aiming for the waves
Em
As he hesitated at the swirl of water that now raged and rained
Am7
Blue eyed girls were waiting and he was drowning in the spray
Em7
Blue eyed girls, he should have been acquainted with
But for shouting and flailing

Am7
Turn your life on the flip of this coin
Em
Turn upside, a choice you'd normally avoid
    Am7
And promise me you'll follow what it says
Em
Whatever it says

[V5]

   Am7
He finally slugs it back to land feeling chewed up and foolish
                                         Em
Empties his pockets on the sand spewing a pool each
Em              Em7                        Am7
Staggers back to his dad who's too cool to be
    Em
So he says, why did you have me follow this stupid rule, please
      Am7
To be honest little fellow, I'll tell you I was just as afraid as you
          Em
But you said you wanted to get with people and places ever new
       Am7
And I got a bit scared about the fate of my baby son's future
     Em
So I invented a reason to see whether you could ever make do

[V6]

  Am7                                     Am
As soon as you appeared behind that rock looking angry at me
   Em
I soon realized what a hell of a man you've ended up being
  Am7
I knew you'd worked out how to swim which I hadn't had in me
      Em                    Em7
And I stand as a companion of you proudest a man has ever been

Am7
Turn your life on the flip of this coin
Em
Turn upside, a choice you'd normally avoid
    Am7
And promise me you'll follow what it says
Em                 Em7
Whatever it says

Outro
Am7 Em