• Song:

    In Shallow Seas We Sail

  • Artist:

    Emery

  • Album:

    10 Years

This is one of my favorite songs and it wasn't on here so I went ahead and transcribed 
A really interesting fact worth noting is that this song is in standard tuning while most 
their other songs are a half-step down.

Tabbed by: David Myers
Email: david.d.myers(at)gmail.com

Feedback is welcome!

Chords Used:
   F5  Ab5 C#5 Bb5 G5  C5  Eb5 E5  F#5
e|-X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X--|
B|-X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X--|
G|-X---X---6---3---X---5---8---9---X--|
D|-3---6---6---3---5---5---8---9---4--|
A|-3---6---4---1---5---3---6---7---4--|
E|-1---4---X---X---3---X---X---X---2--|

Verse 1:
F5                Ab5                                     C#5             Bb5
I got eyes in the back of my head and I, see where you're going with this I'm not surprised
F5                Ab5                               C#5                          Bb5
You take me for a fool, maybe you're right If I was wiser I would not have let myself 
here tonight


Chorus:
C#5
You sold yourself, you'll never learn
(You sold yourself...)
Bb5                    F5     Ab5
Here I am watching the summer fading out
                  (The summer we shared fade away with the winter)
C#5                             Bb5
Your hands were warm on my face. Now they're cold, pushing away
(Your hands were warm now...)
F5     Ab5
Slowly now
(F5                           Ab5               Bb5)
(Colder than ice and they are slowly pushing me away)
           G5
Pushing me away


Verse 2:
F5           Ab5                          C#5
I knew it (I knew it) right from the start
              Bb5                  F5
I've got this big, big hole in my heart
           Ab5                   C#5
I wanted (I wanted) to put you in
             Bb5                          C#5 C5
But for some reason you just wouldn't fit        You just wouldn't fit


Chrous:
C#5
You sold yourself, You'll never learn
(You sold yourself...)
Bb5                    F5     Ab5
Here I am watching the summer fading
                  (The summer we shared fade away with the winter)
C#5                              Bb5
Your hands were warm on my face. Now they're cold, pushing away
(Your hands were warm now...)
F5     Ab5 Bb5
Slowly now Pushing me away
(F5                           Ab5               Bb5
(Colder than ice and they are slowly pushing me away)
C#5                         Eb5  E5
pushing me away, pushing me away

Ab5                          Eb5   E5
Lust can give a man so many regrets
Ab5               F#5           F5
Just this once is what we tell ourselves
            Bb5 C5
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
F5          Bb5 C5
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

F5                            Bb5
Ships don't sink if they have wind in their sails
C#5                            F5   Eb5 C#5
But if the wind fails is there hope for me (I guess your love, was only as safe..)
C5             Bb5              C5
I thought your love was safe as promise you made(..as the promise you made...)

C#5                               Bb5
Now I am drowning in your shallow sea; I swim
(you are the storm, the wind and the waves, you break me in two and toss me away)
F5                          Eb5 C#5
You are the waves that toss me in.
(I fell apart when I fell for you)

C#5                                  Bb5
How can I float above the water that fills my lungs?
(you are the water filing my lungs, killing me softly without a word)
           F5             Eb5 C#5
Killing me softly without a   word.
(Without a word)

Outro:
C#5 Bb5 F5
C#5 Bb5 F5
Eb5 C#5
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