Here Comes The Flood

Peter Gabriel

Tom: A

( C#4/7  C#m7  E/B  A7+ ) 4x

C#m	       B6        A7+
When the night shows and signals grow on radios
C#m	        B6          A7+
All the strange things that come and go as early warnings
B                 Abm7    A7+
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
      A        F#/Bb   B       Ab/C   C#m
Still waiting  for the swollen Easter tide
       C#m7/B		         F#/Bb  F#m/A A	       E
Theres no point in direction, we cannot even  choose a side

C#m	       B6         A7+
I took the old track, the hollow shoulder, across the water,
C#m	          B6          A7+
On the tall cliffs, they were getting older, sons and daughters,
B              Abm7      A7+
The jaded underworld was riding high,
    A         F#/Bb       B     Ab/C    C#m
And waves of steel hurled metal at the sky,
    C#m7/B		                F#/Bb    F#m/A    A	      E
And as the nails sunk in the cloud, The rain was warm and soaked the crowd.

E	   B/Eb	     C#m
Lord, here comes the flood
B	      Ab/C		  C#m
We'll say goodbye,  to flesh and blood
    Ab/C                        C#m
If again the seas are silent in any still alive
Ab/C     Ab/Bb     Ab         Ab/F#  A7+
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
      Am Bm/A C/A      D/A      E/B
Drink up,     dreamers,  you're running dry

C#m	       B6         A7+
When the flood calls, you have no home, you have no walls,
C#m	          B6          A7+
In the thundercrash, you're a thousand minds within a flash,
B                  Abm7    A7+
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see,
    A       F#/Bb         B    Ab/C    C#m
The actor's gone, there's only you and me,
    C#m7/B		                 F#/Bb  F#m/A   A	E
And if we break before the dawn, they'll use up what we used to be.

E	   B/Eb	     C#m
Lord, here comes the flood
B	      Ab/C		 C#m
We'll say goodbye, to flesh and blood
   Ab/C                         C#m
If again the seas are silent in any still alive
Ab/C     Ab/Bb     Ab         Ab/F#  A7+
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
      Am Bm/A C/A      D/A      E/B
Drink up,     dreamers,  you're running dry