Peter Gabriel – Here Comes The Flood (Guitar Acoustic)

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Chords

This is intended to be played with open strings ringing out for all or most of the chords (G# is the possible exception, it is disonant when played open, but I think the disonance works with the lyrical content. The standard barre G# is fine if you don't prefer the open version). C#m - x46650 Bsus4 - x24400 Asus2 - x02200 E/G# - 422400
E - 022100
G# - 466500 (alternatively 466544)
Am - x02210 [Intro] C#m Bsus4 Asus2 C#m Bsus4 Asus2 [Verse 1]
C#m                      Bsus4    Asus2
    When the night shows,     the signals grow on radios

C#m                       Bsus4     Asus2
    All the strange things,    they come and as early warnings

B                  E/G#   Asus2
Stranded starfish have no place to hide

      Asus2          Bsus4         C#m
Still waiting for the swollen eastertide

       Bsus4
There's no point in direction

   Asus2                E
We cannot even choose a side
[Verse 2]
C#m                    Bsus4    Asus2
   I took the old track,    the hollow shoulder across the waters

C#m                  Bsus4        Asus2
   On the tall cliffs     they were getting older, sons and daughters

B             E/G#      Asus2
The jaded underworld was riding high

Asus2                Bsus4        C#m
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky

   Bsus4
And as the nail sunk in the cloud

   Asus2                         E
The rain was warm and soaked the crowd
[Chorus]
E          Bsus4     C#m
Lord, here comes the flood

      B              G#        C#m
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood

    G#                         C#m
If again the seas are silent in any still alive

G#                                  Asus2
It'll be those who gave their island     to survive

     Am                   E
Drink up dreamers, you're running dry
[Verse 3]
C#m                    Bsus4   Asus2
   When the flood calls     you have no home, you have no wallls

C#m                    Bsus4        Asus2
   In the thunder crash     you're a thousand minds, within a flash

B                 E/G#   Asus2
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see

   Asus2                 Bsus4        C#m
The actor's gone, there's only you and me

   Bsus4
And if we break before the dawn,

       Asus2                   E
They'll use up what we used to be.
[Chorus]
E          Bsus4     C#m
Lord, here comes the flood

      B              G#        C#m
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood

    G#                         C#m
If again the seas are silent in any still alive

G#                                  Asus2
It'll be those who gave their islands to survive

     Am                   E
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
[Solo] C#m Bsus4 Asus2 C#m Bsus4 Asus2 Bsus4 G# Asus2 Asus2/F# Bsus4 C#m Bsus4 Asus2 E [Chorus]
E          Bsus4     C#m
Lord, here comes the flood

      B              G#        C#m
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood

    G#                         C#m
If again the seas are silent in any still alive

G#                                  Asus2
It'll be those who gave their islands to survive

     Am                   E
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
[Outro] E Bsus4 C#m B G# C#m G# C#m G# Asus2
    Am                   E
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.