C                       F
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C                       G
Carry my prayers on the sea
 C                          F
And if you are meant to be mine, love
 C              G            C
One day you'll come home to me

[Chorus]
      F                      C
But are you a trick of the memory
         F                       G
That the old gods are playing on me
 C                       F
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C          G            C
Carry my prayers on the sea

[Verse]
 C                                  F
Your blue eyes are there when I close mine
 C                            G
I see your sweet face when I dream
 C                         F
My heart is all ragged in pieces
 C            G     C
Bleeding at every seam

[Chorus]
      F                      C
And are you a trick of the memory
              F                  G
That the old gods are playing on me
 C                        F
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C         G             C
Carry my prayers on the sea

[Verse]
 C                          F
I'm down on my knees at a crossing
 C                    G
Wondering which way to go
 C                                  F
But all roads are dark through the valley
 C               G               C
And I'll learn to walk them alone

[Chorus]
      F                      C
And are you a trick of the memory
              F                  G
That the old gods are playing on me
 C                        F
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C         G             C
Carry my prayers on the sea

[Verse]
   C                      F
No wine and no song can soothe me
     C                         G
I'm pierced by the arrows of pain
     C                          F
I'll lay in the grass by the mountain
 C               G           C
And summon the wind and the rain

[Chorus]
      F                      C
And are you a trick of the memory
              F                  G
That the old gods are playing on me
 C                        F
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C         G             C
Carry my prayers on the sea
 C                       F
Carry my prayers on the ocean
 C           G          C
Carry my prayers on the sea