Built to Spill – Water Sleepers (Guitar)

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Chords

-------------- Intro: A
              C#m                   Em            
You tell them you don't know how to live

Bm                                  Dm                   A
Caught in the act of making up your deathbed on the wake

               C#m           Em     
Wake up you're dreaming your head's starving

       Bm 
you're digging up the plants you love

                      Dm
because you heard the stars were root-bound

                    A
they're root-bound

             C#m             Em     
wake up your dancing dancing lifeless legs

        Bm                                      Dm
they're antennas are picking up the sounds that whales make

                   A
whale song is love

                C#m           Em     
well they can't help it ah we can't help it

Bm                                              
following the signals from the deep we pay off the cross-road

Dm                       A
gods with our accidents

     C#m             Em     
initiation catch you in the act

   Bm 
of thinking you were doing something else

         Dm                           A
by going for a sunday dive head-first
Instrumental: C#m Em Hm Dm A 3x
              C#m                  Em     
suddenly it's dark out too dark to swim

Bm
lord the water's got it in for us

             Dm                                  A
and we're perpetually half-in caught in the act
Outro: C#m Em Bm Dm A 3x