This Is The Sea chords by The Waterboys

Intro:
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Verse:

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These things you keep

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You'd better throw 'em away

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You wanna turn your back

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On your soulless days

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Once you were tethered

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And now you are free

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Once you were tethered

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Well, now you are free

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That was the river

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This is the sea

Verse:

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Well, now if you're feelin' weary

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If you've been alone too long

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Well, maybe you've been suffering from

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A few too many plans that have gone wrong

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And you're trying to remember

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How fine your life used to be

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Running around banging your drum

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Like it's Nineteen Seventy-Three

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Well, that was the river

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Ah, this is the sea

Verse:

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Now you say you've got trouble

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You say you've got pain

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You say you've got nothing left to believe in

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Nothing to hold on to, nothing to trust, nothing but chains

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You've been scouring your conscience

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Raking through your memory

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Scouring your conscience

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Raking through your memory

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But that was the river

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This is the sea, yeah

Verse:

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Now I can see you wavering

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As you try to decide

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You've got a war in your head

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And it's tearing you up inside

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You're trying to make sense

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Of something that you just don't see

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Trying to make sense now

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And you know that you once held the key

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But that was the river

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And this is the sea, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Instrumental:
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Verse:

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Now I hear there's a train

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Coming on down the line

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It's yours if you hurry

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You've got still enough time

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And you don't need no ticket

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And you don't pay no fee

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No, you don't need no ticket

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You don't pay no fee

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Because that was the river

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And this is the sea

Outro:

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Well, that was the river

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And this is the sea

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Well, that was the river

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This is the sea

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Well, that was the river

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River, river, river, river, river, river

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And this is the sea

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The sea, hmm hmm

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The sea, yeah

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Behold the sea