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Tuning: standard Am C Em X-all strings muted e|------------0---------------0----------------0--------x-------------------| B|--------1---1----------1----1-----------3----3--------x-------------------| G|-------0--------------0----------------3--------------x-------------------| D|-----------2--------------0----------------0----------x-------------------| A|------0-------------2----------------2----------------x-------------------| E|------------------------------------------------------x-------------------| C - Am x4
CMomma woke up at 3 a.m. with her pillow soaked in sAmweat CIn her mind an image was burned that she will not forAmget CThe hands of fate are tied and their work cannot be unEmdone
She was made to watch in helpless horror X X C as the water filled the lungs of her first born son
Am C*whiEmstlesC* Am CPresent day, the down is gone, and contour feathersAm grow CHave I got some sights to smell and sounds that I should Amgo CI had wit and gall but optimism was the heaviest tEmhing
So when the waves rushed in they pressed me tight X X X And I began to sink X C I'm just a handful of cells ----| in an ocean full of stars |from here on Am |is strummed How am I supposed to find my place |not plucked In a world that's so bizarre? on the last few C words of a verse, My country's invading others place pinky and For reasons I can't explain Index on the two Am higher strings There's too much plastic in the ocean And corrosive acid in the rain
The toCwer has been toppled and it won't point up again The sAmnowflakes aren't so pretty when there's a glacier plowing in How cCan we take up arms over things that are so small While thEme levels of kelp are rising And will soon consume us all
Tangled in the wire mesh of hate that holds me down I nod in understanding
So tEmhis is Chow I Amdrown So Cthis isEm how I Gmdrown X3 So Emthis is Chow I Amdrown So Cthis isEm how I Gmdrown