Foals – A Knife In The Ocean (Guitar)

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This is just the main body of this great track by foals. Sounds good on acoustic guitar [Intro] Bm (It sounds nice to arpeggio this during the intro) When I come to walk the line The fire may come, but we'll be just fine When I go to walk the line The fire, it will come but we'll be just fine Bm E Bm D A Bm [Verse 1]
Bm                  
Mouth of the ocean, be well spoken

A                  D
Watch your P's and Q's

Bm                    
Now that we're older, the future is colder

A                    D
But what is there to do?

Bm                  
I'll walk the line, I'll be just fine

A                     D
I'll be right back on time

Bm                  
The fire is coming, but we'll outrun it

A              D
We'll never be undone
Bm A D Bm A D E (play the E short here and at the end of the lines) [Chorus]
D                E              F#m           E
What came of the things we once believed?

D                   E                  F#m    E
Oh, all lost to the depths of a hungry sea

D                    E              F#m          E
Oh, what came of the things we once believed?

D                   E                  F#m       E
Oh, all lost to the depths of a hungry sea
Bm A D Bm A D [Verse 2]
Bm
And now our parents are long departed

A                  D
Who can finish the songs they started?

Bm      
Bodies are broken, but it's just a token

A                 D
Of what is surely to come

Bm                   
Unstitch the suture, please pause the future

A                   D
So I can collect my things

Bm
The fire is coming, but we'll outrun it

A              D 
We'll never be undone
E (again, just play this short as the chorus kicks in) [Chorus]
D                E              F#m           E
What came of the things we once believed?

D                   E                  F#m    E
Oh, all lost to the depths of a hungry sea

D                    E              F#m          E
Oh, what came of the things we once believed?

D                   E                  F#m       E
Oh, all lost to the depths of a hungry sea