Counting Crows - God Of Ocean Tides: chords

G
Close the door on a short night
D
Lift the lid on the daylight
Em                   C
6:09 West Tennessee time
                  G
And I buy all my days
        D                                   C
At the same place where the girl sells her nights
      C            G
To a God of ocean tides.

Chorus:
D    G     D
All night long,
 G       C            G
Writing poems to California
Em
Melodies of failure
         Am
And the people I have thrown
  D    G    D     G          C        G
Away, meanwhile, somewhere west of Carolina
      Em
In a congregation of strangers
        A7
We are digging holes to China
          C
Then we pray to our reflections
In the water when it rises.

Headlights pin the highway down
Jesus spins the world around
I spend all my tomorrows coming down
Goodbye all my days
I know I said I never loved you
But I might just try again tonight

G/B              C
Truck stops and river gods
      D               G
Gas stations of the Cross
 D
Following a ghost,
Am
Following a ghost,
    C             D
I pray the water wash away
     Em      D       Cmaj7
The memories and the cost.
D          G            C
Carry me south, to the sea
D/E              G           Cmaj7
Along with your memories of me
        D           G
We are born in the water
                        C
And I will re-turn to Thee.

C
Colored lights
    G/D
And birthday cakes
C
Candle wax
    G
On paper plates.
C
Breathe the water
 G
Hush-a-bye, hush-a-bye.
         C
You can see through water
                        G
All the way up to the sky.

Gods of water
Gods of rain
Cover up the sun again
We are crossing at the Mississippi line
I tried all my days
To love you just the way you hoped I might
But I’m leaving here tonight
I can’t remember yesterday
I tried
If I said I could
I lied