(intro)

(N.C.)                A
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(verse 1) (arpeggiate chords throughout first section)

 A (x0222x)          D#dim (xx1212)
You better listen anybody
  A                      F#m (2442xx)
'Cause I'm gonna make it clear
 A                  D#dim
That my life is unimportant
 A                            F#m
What I've done I did through fear
 A                     D#dim
There's a river running thru me
 A                   F#m
Only tide I tried to hide
 A                        D#dim
None the less I could not shake it
 A                       F#m
And in the end it swept aside

B
All my feeble unimportance
D7
I can't say "never mind"
 A                 B             F#m
Can't you hear me mother calling you?
     A         B         F#m
I'm cold, I'm deaf, I'm blind
A           B                 F#m
  And it's only 'cause you're lucky
A         B             F#m
  People know that's no fine
D        D#dim            A/E    F#m
I didn't think I'd be an actor
 D     B               F#m (N.C.)
What I am I'll leave behind

(repeat intro)

(verse 2)
You better listen anybody
Cause it's me and you that's it
And in case you find your maker
Perhaps you'll plea for us a bit
All my sick is in my stomach
All my sweat is clearly fear
And if you could see inside me
I don't think you'd have me here

Tell the helmsman veer to starboard
Bring this ship around to port
And if the sea was not so salty
I could sink instead of walk
And in case a passing stranger
Who was standing where I fell
Tell the truth you never knew me
And in truth it's just as well

(coda)
(repeat first bar of intro)

(guitar solo) A B F#m 
(repeat to fade)