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Floating On The Forth Tab

by Frightened Rabbit


Artist: Frightened Rabbit
Song: Floating on the Forth
Album: The Midnight Organ Fight

Standard Tuning (Capo IV)

Chords:
   EADGBe
: 032010
: 000232
: 320033 

Intro: (this intro melody is played thru the entire song
        with some variations, listen with CD)
e|-3-----------------3----------------3-|
B|---3--0-1-3-0-1--3----3-0-1-3-0-1-3---| then, 


e|-3----------7-3----------------------3--|
B|---3--0-1-3-----3--0-1-3-0-1-3-0-1-3----|


Verse 1 Chords:
                                 
  So you just stepped out of the front of my house
                              
and I'll never see you again.
                                            
I closed my eyes for a second and when they opened
                   
You weren't there.
                             
And the door shut shut I was vacuum packed, 
                          
Shrink-wrapped out of air
                                 
And the spine collapsed and the eyes rolled back
     
To stare at my starving brain,

Chorus Chords:
                                         
   And fully clothed,   I float away (I'll float away)

Down the Forth
                                                      
Into the sea, I think I'll save suicide for another day.

Verse 2: Use verse 1 chords
And I picture this corpse on the M8 hearse
And I half run away to sleep on a rolled up coat
Against the window  with the strobe of the sun
And the life I've led
Am I ready to leap is there peace beneath
The roar of the Forth road bridge?
On the Northern side there's a Fife of mine
and a boat in the port for me,

Final Chorus:
                                      
  And fully clothed, I float away (I'll float away)
G                C  (play this C on thru the next 5 lines)
Down the Forth, into the sea 
I'll steer myself through drunken waves
These manic gulls scream it's okay
Take your life give it a shake
Gather up all your loose change
                                               (to fade out)
I think I'll save suicide for another year.