Across The Sea

	  		

Verse 
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G          B     E              D 
You are an eighteen year old 
    G                B           C       D 
girl  who lives in the small city of Japan 
G             B         E             D 
   You heard me on the radio 
    G             B         C             D 
About one year ago and you wanted to know 
G           B         E               D 
   All about me and my hobbies 
G          B           E               D 
  My favorite food and my birthday 



G                 B          E               D/B 
   Why are you so far a  way from me? 
G             B                 E                  D 
   I need help   and your way accccross the sea 
  

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Verse 
G                      B    E           D 
They don't make stationary like 
  G                         B           C          D 
this where I'm from so fragile, so refined 
G           B        E          D 
    So I sniff           and I lick 
                     (So I snare)                (and I lick) 
G                    B               C               D 
    Your envelope and fall to little pieces every 
G         B                     C                   D 
time I wonder what clothes you wear to 
    G          B                             C      D 
school. I wonder how you decorate your 
   G          B            C           D 
room   I wonder how you touch yourself and 
    G            B            C         D   (play fill 1) 
curse myself for being across the sea 



Chorus 

Solo 




E         D#            C#       B                   A             G#    F# 

At  ten I shaved my head and tried to be a monk 

E         D#            C#       B                   A             G#    F# 

I thought the older women would like me if i did 


E           D#      C#             B                  A      G#           F#/G# 
   You see mom    I'm a good little boy 
                                                                 (good little boy) 
E          D#          C#   B            A       G#          F#/G#   B 
    It's all your fault   momma   It's all your fault 


Verse 

G          B              C                  D 
Goddamn   This business is really lame 

G            B                 C            D 
  I gotta live on an island to find the juice 

G                B                           E                D 
  So you send                          me your love 
                         (So you send)                  (me your love) 

G                                    B                   C                             D 
   From all around the world                          As if I could live on 
                                           (from all around the                  world) 

G                        B                C          D 
Words and dreams and a million screams oh 

E           B            C         D 
How I need a hand in mine to feel 

G                    B                  A                     E E  E  E   DDDDDD 
     Why  are you so far away from me 

G                    B                  A                     E E  E E E E E E E E 
     Why  are you so far away from me 


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