A B & the Sea
Bikes

The guitar lick at the beginning. This is played in a groovy eigth note pattern

e |-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
B |-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------------:|
G |--------------2----|-------------------|--0---4---2--------|-------------------|
D |----------------4--|-------------------|--------------4--2-|-(2)---------------|
A |--4----------------|-------------------|-------------------|----4-------------:|
E |-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|

A (x02220@1)                          DWe (xx0232@1)can ride our bikes to the beach
               G (320003@1)                      D (xx0232@1)        AWhere (x02220@1)kids are running ... control with words on the street
A (x02220@1)                           DWe (xx0232@1)can comb our hair with the wind
                        G (320003@1)             D (xx0232@1)            AWe're (x02220@1)talking with our shoulders and the shades of our skin
A (x02220@1)                          DAnd (xx0232@1)surfers smile up at the reef
                G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)        ABut (x02220@1)girls keep reading Cosmopolitan magazines

GThey'll (320003@1)tell you how to touch

How to talk
        D (xx0232@1)         AHow (x02220@1)to fuck how to breathe

A (x02220@1)                             DAnd (xx0232@1)we can have a talk about love
                G (320003@1)             D (xx0232@1)       AOr (x02220@1)inter God or anything that's hard to believe

Bm (x24432@1)       E (022100@1)         A (x02220@1)    F#m (244222@1)  DA   
But sometimes it's so hard to unwind
Bm (x24432@1)       E (022100@1)         
And sometimes you make it easier

Instrumental:
A (x02220@1)     D (xx0232@1)    G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) AA       D (xx0232@1)    G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1)(same as before)

You can marry me in the sand
... so I'm your ideal man

But sometimes it's so hard to unwind
And sometimes you make it easier

A (x02220@1)                             DWe (xx0232@1)can ride our bikes to the beach
We can ride our bikes to the beach
We can ride our bikes to the beach
G (320003@1)             D (xx0232@1)            AOr (x02220@1)we can stay at home and study