I’m the Ocean

Neil Young

 

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Em    G        I'm an accident

C       D        I was driving way too fast           

Em    G        Couldn't stop though

C       D        So I let the moment last 

 

Em    G        I'm for rollin' 

C       D        I'm for tossin' in my sleep 

Em    G        It's not guilt though 

C       D        It's not the company I keep

 

Em    G        People my age

C       D        They don't do the things I do

Em    G        They go somehwere

C       D        While I run away with you

 

Em    G        I got my friends

C       D        And I got my children too

Em    G        I got her love

C       D        She's got my love too

 

Em    G        I can't hear you

C       D        But I feel the things you say

Em    G        I can't see you

C       D        But I see what's in my way

 

Em    G        Now I'm floatin'

C       D        Cause I'm not tied to the ground

Em    G        Words I've spoken

C       D        Seem to leave a hollow sound

 

Em    G        On the long plain

C       D        See the rider in the night

Em    G        See the chieftain

C       D        See the braves in cool moonlight

 

Em    G        Who will love them

C       D        When they take another life

Em    G        Who will hold them

C       D        When they tremble for the knife

 

Em    G        Voicemail numbers

C       D        On an old computer screen

Em    G        Rows of lovers

C       D        Parked forever in a dream

 

Em    G        Screaming sirens

C       D        Echoing across the bay

Em    G        To the old boats

C       D        From the city far away

 

Em    G        Homeless heroes

C       D        Walk the streets of their hometown

Em    G        Rows of zeros

C       D        On a field that's turning brown

 

Em    G        They play baseball

C       D        They play football under lights

Em    G        They play card games

C       D        And we watch them every night

 

Em    G        Need distraction

C       D        Need romance and candlelight

Em    G        Need random violence

C       D        Need entertainment tonight

 

Em    G        Need the evidence

C       D        Want the testimony of

Em    G        Expert witnesses

C       D        On the brutal crimes of love

 

Em    G        I was too tired

C       D        To see the news when I got home

Em    G        Pulled the curtain

C       D        Fell into bed alone

 

Em    G        Started dreaming

C       D        Saw the rider once again

Em    G        In the doorway

C       D        Where she stood and watched for him

 

Em    G        I'm not present

C       D        I'm a drug that makes you dream

Em    G        I'm an aerostar

C       D        I'm a cutlass supreme

 

Em    G        In the wrong lane

C       D        Trying to turn against the flow

Em    G        I'm the ocean

C       D        I'm the giant undertow

 

Em    G        I'm the ocean

C       D        I'm the giant undertow

Em    G        I'm the ocean

C       D        I'm the giant undertow