[Intro] G E|-----------------| B|---0---0---------| G|-2---2---0-------| D|-----------0-----| A|-----------------| E|-------------3---|[Verse]G Packed and all eyes turned in, no one to see on the quay, No one waving forEm C D me just the shoreline receding. Ticket in my hand and thinking wish IG didn't hand it in. Cause who said sailing is fine? leaving behind all theEm C faces that I might replace if I tried on that long ride, looking deepD inside but I don`t want to look so deep inside yet.G Em C Sit down, sit down on the prow to wave bye, there might not be another star, {pause}G G Em further on the line. Look out, look out at each town that glides by, andC G there's another crowd, to drown in crying eyes.[Chorus]G Em C And see how that light you love now just won`t shine, there might just be another star, that`s highG D and far in some other sky. [Verse]G We sing, "is that marionette real enough yet to step off of that set toEm C D decide what her hands might be doing. Ruining the play to in the ensuingG melee escape". We packed up all of our bags the ship's deck now sags fromEm the weight of our tracks as we pace beneath flags black and batteredC D rattling our swords in service of some faded, foreign lord.G Em We sail out on order from him but we find the maps heC G G sent to us don't mention lost coastlines. Where nothing we've actually seenEm C has been mapped or outlined and we don't recognize the names upon theseG signs. [Outro]G Em And every night finds us rocking and rolling on waves wild and wide, wellC G D G Em ... we have lost our way, nobody`s gonna say it outright. Just go la la la la la la la la la... (x2)
Lost Coastlines
Okkervil River
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