The xx – Basic Space (Ukulele)

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guitar! Listen to the song for strumming melody, I just do the downstroke twice. Bb Bb Bb Bb F F F F
Bb                Bb
Neck, chest, waist to floor

F                    F
Easy to take, you could take me in fours

Bb                         Bb
Make me a deal, a day a piece

F                    F
Take it all, just stay a week

Bb                                   Bb
I'll take you in pieces, we can take it all apart

F                                     F
I've suffered shipwrecks right from the start

Bb                              Bb
I've been underwater, breathing out and in

F                                             F
I think I'm losing where you end and I begin

Eb                       Bb
Basic space, open air

Eb                                                        Bb
Don't look away, when there's nothing there

Eb
I'm setting us in stone

Bb
Piece by piece, before I'm alone

Eb
Air tight, before we break

Bb
Keep it in, keep us safe

Eb
It's a pool of boiling wax I'm getting in

         Bb
Let it set got to seal this in,

Eb
Can't adjust, Can't relearn

           Bb
Got to keep what I have, preserve

Eb                        Bb
Basic space, open air

Eb                                                        Bb
Don't look away, when there's nothing there

Bb
Hot wax has left me with a shine

F
Wouldn't know if I'd been left behind

Bb                 F
Second skin, second skin

Bb                     F
I can't let it out, I still let you in

Bb                     F
I can't let it out, I still let you in