Here Comes The Flood Cifras

This is intended to be played with open strings ringing out for all or most of the chords (G# is the possible
exception, it is disonant when played open, but I think the disonance works with the lyrical content. The
standard barre G# is fine if you don't prefer the open version).
 
C#m - x46650
Bsus4 - x24400
Asus2 - x02200
E/G# - 422400
E - 022100
G# - 466500 (alternatively 466544)
Am - x02210
 
[Intro]
C#m       Bsus4       Asus2
C#m       Bsus4       Asus2
 
[Verse 1]
C#m                      Bsus4    Asus2
    When the night shows,     the signals grow on radios
C#m                       Bsus4     Asus2
    All the strange things,    they come and as early warnings
B                  E/G#   Asus2
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
      Asus2          Bsus4         C#m
Still waiting for the swollen eastertide
       Bsus4
There's no point in direction
   Asus2                E
We cannot even choose a side
 
[Verse 2]
C#m                    Bsus4    Asus2
   I took the old track,    the hollow shoulder across the waters
C#m                  Bsus4        Asus2
   On the tall cliffs     they were getting older, sons and daughters
B             E/G#      Asus2
The jaded underworld was riding high
Asus2                Bsus4        C#m
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
   Bsus4
And as the nail sunk in the cloud
   Asus2                         E
The rain was warm and soaked the crowd
 
[Chorus]
E          Bsus4     C#m
Lord, here comes the flood
      B              G#        C#m
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
    G#                         C#m
If again the seas are silent in any still alive
G#                                  Asus2
It'll be those who gave their island     to survive
     Am                   E
Drink up dreamers, you're running dry
 
[Verse 3]
C#m                    Bsus4   Asus2
   When the flood calls     you have no home, you have no wallls
C#m                    Bsus4        Asus2
   In the thunder crash     you're a thousand minds, within a flash
B                 E/G#   Asus2
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
   Asus2                 Bsus4        C#m
The actor's gone, there's only you and me
   Bsus4
And if we break before the dawn,
       Asus2                   E
They'll use up what we used to be.
 
[Chorus]
E          Bsus4     C#m
Lord, here comes the flood
      B              G#        C#m
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
    G#                         C#m
If again the seas are silent in any still alive
G#                                  Asus2
It'll be those who gave their islands to survive
     Am                   E
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
 
[Solo]
C#m        Bsus4     Asus2
C#m        Bsus4     Asus2
Bsus4      G#        Asus2
Asus2/F#   Bsus4     C#m
Bsus4      Asus2     E
 
[Chorus]
E          Bsus4     C#m
Lord, here comes the flood
      B              G#        C#m
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
    G#                         C#m
If again the seas are silent in any still alive
G#                                  Asus2
It'll be those who gave their islands to survive
     Am                   E
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
 
[Outro]
E          Bsus4     C#m
B          G#        C#m
G#                   C#m
G#                   Asus2
    Am                   E
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.  
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