From the album
Crawford Street (2005)

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Tags:

4/4

Acoustic

Dark

Electric

Guitar

Hard

Rock

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Lyrics

Rotting driftwood on the foreign shores
Spilling out into the ocean floor
And the memory's all you left without a trace

Paralyzed with the thoughts receeding
The current sweeps you with its silent bleeding
Through the heart into the darkest place

    Turn around, there's nothing to see here
    Run away, no reason to be here
    It's the ghost who never goes away

    Turn around, and leave this behind now
    See the ground as it bleeds into sky now
    You fight the sea, you're always going to drown

All the secrets that you're holding
All the memories you hide
All the frail thoughts that echo in the corners of your mind

They won't even last a moment
The will soon be swept away
When the ocean takes you in its arms and carries you away

You carry all your burdens on the cross around your neck
You take whatever's left that you salvage from the wreck
And that haunted past will follow you like a lost dog on the beach
Nipping at your trail till you've drifted out of reach

    Turn around, there's nothing to see here
    Run away, no reason to be here
    It's the ghost who never goes away

    Turn around, and leave this behind now    
    See the ground as it bleeds into sky now
    You fight the sea, you're always going to drown

The broken-line horizon and the castles made of sand
You tried to hold it in your hand, you tried to understand it

But the ocean asks the questions, and it holds the answers too
It dissolves away the lies about the things you thought you knew

Tablature

Tuning: FFCFAbC (the lower string is an octave below the second string). 

Intro (H5 means harmonic on 5th fret):

----------H7----------H7----------H7--H5--
------------H5----------H7----------H5----
--------H5----------H5----------H5--------
------H5----------H5----------H5----------
------------------------------------------
-0-------------0-----------0--------------

First Verse:
----0----0--   --0--0--
----0----0--   --9--7--
----7----5--   --0--0--
---5----7---   --8--7--
--0----0----   --x--x--
------------   --8--7--

----0----0--   --0--0--0--0---
----0----0--   --9--7--9--11--
----7----5--   --0--0--0--0---
---5----7---   --8--7--8--10--
--0----0----   --x--x--x--x---
------------   --8--7--8--10--

Chorus:
--0---0---0---0--
--0---0---0---8--
--7---5---3---7--
--5---3---1---0--
--0---0---0---x--
--0---0---0---7--

--0---0---0---0--
--0---0---0---0--
--7---5---5---3--
--5---3---2---1--
--0---0---0---0--
--0---0---0---0--


Second Verse:
------0-------0-------0-----0--
------0-------0-------0-----5--
------7-------5-------7-----5--
------5-------3-------5-----5--
--0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0--
--0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0--

------0-------0---0-0--0--0---
------0-------0---0-0--0--0---
------7-------5---8-8-10-10---
------5-------3---8-8-10-10---
--0-0-0---0-0-0---8-8-10-10---
--0-0-0---0-0-0---8-8-10-10---


"You carry all your burdens.."
--0---0---0---0--
--4---0---9---7--
--3---0---0---0--
--0---0---8---7--
--3---0---x---x--
--3---0---8---7--

--0---0---0---0---
--4---0---9---11--
--3---0---0---0---
--0---0---8---10--
--3---0---x---x---
--3---0---8---10--

"Broken line horizon.."
--0---0---0---0--------------------------0-0--
--9---7---9---11----H12-11-----H12-11----9-8--
--0---0---0---0-----H12---10---H12---10--8-8--
--8---7---8---10----H12--------H12-------8-8--
--x---x---x---x----0----------0----------8-8--
--8---7---8---10---0----------0----------8-8--

Ending:
---------------------------0-0-----0-0--
---H12-11-----H12-11-------9-8-----9-8--
---H12---10---H12---10--8--8-8--8--8-8--
---H12--------H12-------8--8-8--8--8-8--
--0----------0----------8--8-8--8--8-8--
--0----------0----------8--8-8--8--8-8--

----------------------------------10-H12------
----9-11-12-11-9--------------11-H12----------
--10------------10--8--------H12----------H5--
--10----------------8-------H12----------H5---
--10----------------8----0-H12----------H5----
--10----------------8----0--------------------

Played Live

Full Statistics

Played at 28 out of 164 shows since introduction (17%)
Played at 21 out of 54 non-open mic shows since introduction (39%)
There have been 23 show(s) since the last play.
• Howard's Club H, 2004-04-30
• Amici Open Mic, 2004-04-30
• Coffee Amici, 2004-07-03
• Brewed Awakenings, 2004-10-02
• Amici Open Mic, 2004-10-15
• The Stadium Club, 2004-10-27
• Coffee Amici, 2004-10-30
• Coffee Amici, 2005-02-05
• Ohio Coffee Concerts, 2005-02-19
• Java Rave, 2005-04-08
• Amici Open Mic, 2005-04-29
• Jones Building, 2005-05-06
• Coffee Amici, 2005-07-16
• Stage Right, 2005-07-26
• Amici Open Mic, 2005-08-19
• Wayne College, 2005-10-05
• Coffee Amici, 2005-10-15
• Masonic Temple, 2005-12-17
• Coffee Amici, 2006-02-18
• Amici Open Mic, 2006-03-10
• Coffee Amici, 2006-05-06
• Rocking U, 2006-05-12
• Meeting Place on Market, 2006-06-24
• Rocking U, 2006-06-24
• Rocking U, 2006-07-07
• Amici Open Mic, 2006-07-14
• Coffee Amici, 2006-10-28
• Amici Open Mic, 2007-03-23

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  Discussion: Fight the Sea

Teresa on Sep 11 2007 @ 11:40 (anonymous)
This song

I really 'like' (like is the wrong word but the one I'm looking for escapes me) this song, particularly the melody of the "Turn around" parts.

That's all.