| C          | Dm         | Am         | F          |
| C          | Dm         | Am         | F          |
| C          | Dm         | Am         | F          |
| C          | Dm         | Am         | F          |

[Verse 1]
        C              Dm              Am           F
And the moon brings us back, I'm going back over to the
C              Dm              Am           F
islands
     C          Dm               Am              F
in between your smiles there's a clue whether to scream
      C              Dm              Am           F
or be silent.
        C                  Dm            Am        F
And the wind blows sad and joyful on our   arrival
         C              Dm              Am           F
onto the island
                       C           Dm             Am      F
and with your sense of dislocation   you make the perfect travelling
   C              Dm              Am           F
companion.

[Interlude]
| F          | C          | G          | G          |

[Chorus]
        C                 F            C            G
And the world will always seem so much younger than me
                Am          F          C         G
when I take the boat out,
          C                 F    C          G
a crowded world will always seem emptier to me
                C          F          Am         G
when I take the boat out.

[Interlude]
| C          | Dm         | Am         | F          |
| C          | Dm         | Am         | F          |

[Verse 2]
   C              Dm           Am      F
Suspicion fills a stranger who looks beyond
      C              Dm           Am      F
the horizon,
        C                    Dm                 Am      F
All the days that I've found love and left with only my feelings
      C              Dm           Am      F
to survive on.
           C           Dm            Am            F
I walk the solemn line   in with the rhythm of the seas
           C              Dm           Am      F
around the island
              C                Dm                      Am             F
and there are times to act and times to stand back and   time to show whats
            C           Dm           Am         Am
needed to rely on.

[Interlude]
| F          | F          | G          | G          |

[Chorus]
        C                 F            C            G
And the world will always seem so much younger than me
                Am          F          C         G
when I take the boat out,
          C                 F    C          G
a crowded world will always seem emptier to me
                C          F          Am         G
when I take the boat out.
         C               F       C            G
When the sea answers the island, oh,
                Am          F          C         G
when I take the boat out,
     C           F       C            G
it's emptier and silent, oh,
                C          F          Am        G
when I take the boat out.

[Interlude]
| F          | F           | G          | G          |
| Am         | C           | Dm         | Dm         |
    F               F       G            G
How come you always seem so real defined,
             Am         C            Dm        Dm
you put your hand in my hand make it my design.

[Outro]
       F                 C        G          G
And we give what we have   and we do what we can,
         Am         C          Dm           Am
put your hand in my hand.
    C               Am      G      G
How come you always seem so real defined,
             Am         C            Dm           Dm
you put your hand in my hand make it   our design.
       G            C           G          G
And we give what we have and we do what we can,
         Am         C          Dm          F
put your hand in my hand.
        C               F       C        G
And the sea answers the island, oh,
Am            F            C            G
        C               F       C        G
and the sea answers the island, oh.
C             F            Am           G
C