This Is The Sea Live chords by The Waterboys

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Performance: Athens 21/11/2019

Key: C majorC

Play the chords Fmaj7/G and C majorC with pinky finger on the 3rd fret of high e string.
The almost constant G+G note gives the song its mellow feel.



🎸 Verse 1:
Fmaj7/G     C majorC
These things you keep
           Fmaj7Fmaj7
You better throw them away
           C majorC
You wanna Tturn your back
         Fmaj7/G
On your soulless days
        C majorC
Once you were tethered
      Fmaj7/G
Now you are free
G+G       DmDm
Once you were tethered
       G+G
Now you are free

🎸 Chorus:
G+G      DmDm
That was the river (pause)
       C majorC
This is the sea


🎸 Verse 2:
Fmaj7/G      C majorC
If you're feeling weary
           Fmaj7/G
Maybe been alone too long
           C majorC
Or else you've been suffering from
              Fmaj7/G
A augmentedA few too many plans that have gone wrong

           C majorC
And you're trying to remember
             Fmaj7/G
How fine your life used to be
G+G              DmDm
Running around banging your drum
              G+G
Like it's nineteen-seventy-three

🎸 Chorus:
 G+G         DmDm
Well that was the river (pause)
       C majorC
This is the sea


🎸 Verse 3:
Fmaj7/G       C majorC
You say you've got trouble
          Fmaj7/G
You say you've got pain
                C majorC
You say you've got nothin' to hold on to
                Fmaj7/G
Nothing to trust, nothing but chains

             C majorC
You've been scouring your conscience
            Fmaj7/G
And raking through your memory
G+G       DmDm
Scouring your conscience
            G+G
And raking through your memory


🎸 Chorus:
G+G         DmDm
But that was the river (pause)
      C majorC
This is the sea


🎸 Verse 4:
Fmaj7/G    C majorC
I can see you wavering
         Fmaj7/G
As you try to decide
             C majorC
You've got a war in your head
           Fmaj7/G
And it's tearing you up inside
           C majorC
You're trying to make sense
               Fmaj7/G
Of something that you just don't see
G+G           DmDm
You're trying to make sense now
                G+G
And you know you once held the key


🎸 Chorus:
G+G         DmDm
But that was the river (pause)
       C majorC
This is the sea


🎸 Verse 5:
Fmaj7/G        C majorC
Now I hear there's a train
           Fmaj7/G
It's coming down the line
         C majorC
It's yours if you hurry
            Fmaj7/G
You've got still enough time
              C majorC
'cause you've already got a ticket
         Fmaj7/G
And you paid your fee

G+G         DmDm
You already got a ticket
           G+G
You already paid your fee


🎸 Chorus:
G+G       DmDm
That was the river (pause)
       C majorC
This is the sea