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Into the ocean

Blue October

RockMedium for beginners5 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×
Am×
Am7×
F
Cmaj7Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Verse 1: 
C 
I'm just a normal boy 
Who sank when I fell overboard 
My ship would leave country 
but I'd rather swim ashore 
           Am 
without a lifevest I'd be stuck again 
wish I was much more masculine 
maybe even I could learn to swim 
        Am7 
like fourteen miles away 
      F 
now floating up and down 
I spin colliding into sound 
like whales beneath me diving down 
I'm sinking to the bottom 
              C 
of my everything that freaks me out 
the lighthouse beam has just run out 
I'm cold as cold as cold can be... be 
 
CHORUS
 
C 
I want to swim away but don't know how 
                                               Cmaj7 
Somtimes it feels just like I'm falling in the ocean 
Am 
let the waves up take me down 
                  Am7 
let the hurricane set in motion, yeah
F                                                                     C 
let the rain of what I feel right now come down...
 
let the rain come down  
 
 
Verse 2: 
 
C 
Where is the coastguard 
I keep looking each direction 
for a spotlight give, me something 
I need something for protection 
         Am 
mabye flotsam junk will do just fine 
the jetsam sank left me behind 
I'm treading for my life, believe me 
how can I keep up this breathing 
F 
not knowing how to think 
I scream aloud begin to sink 
my legs and arms are broken down
with envy for the solid ground 
      C 
I'm reaching for the life within me 
how can one man stop his ending 
I thought of just your face 
relaxed and floated into space 
 
(Chorus)  
 
Verse 3: 
 
C 
now waking to the sun 
I calculate what I have done 
like jumping from the bow, yeah 
just to prove that I knew how, yeah 
       Am 
it's midnight's late reminder 
of the loss of her, the one I love 
my will to quickly end it all
sat front row in my need to fall 
F 
into the ocean end it all {x4} 
C 
into the ocean end it, ...all 
 
(Chorus)  
 
C-Am-F 
 
Into space..............I thought of just your face 
          
 

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Chord set

C · Am · Am7 · F · Cmaj7

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.