Key: B * means strum only once 🎸 Verse 1: F# Sink to the bottom F# Only to wind up belly up E On your bedroom floor B Innocuous form
🎸 Verse 2: F# I'm underwater F# Half of the day but still you E Wade till I'm ready to float B And carry me home 🎸 Chorus: F# We'll be alright in the morning F# When the world is on fire we'll be treading E In the yard till I'm ready to float B And you carry me home F# And we're dancing outside in the purple dark F# By the blood that we shed on the boulevard E I know that you'll carry me home B You'll carry me home F# To swim F# Swim C#m Swim B To swim 🎸 Verse 3: F# Locked to the love seat F# Flash me your front teeth E Its cherry and bone B Cherry and bone 🎸 Verse 4: F# You are the athlete F# I am the astronaut E For thousands of hours I float B Still you carry me home 🎸 Chorus: F# We'll be alright in the morning F# When the world is on fire we'll be treading E In the yard till I'm ready to float B And you carry me home F# And we're dancing outside in the purple dark F# By the blood that we shed on the boulevard E I know that you'll carry me home B You'll carry me home F# To swim F# Swim C#m7 (The world is on fire)(Carry me) B (I'm ready to float)(Carry me home) F# To swim F# Swim C#m7 (The world is on fire) B (I'm ready to float) 🎸 Bridge: F# Goodbye to F# My mother C#m Whose body B I lived in F# Turn blood in- F# to water C#m And taught me B To swim 🎸 Chorus: F# We'll be alright in the morning F# When the world is on fire we'll be treading E In the yard till I'm ready to float B And you carry me home F# And we're dancing outside in the purple dark F# By the blood that we shed on the boulevard E I know that you'll carry me home B And you carry me home F# To swim F# Swim C#m Swim B (Carry me home) F#* To swim