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Tide Tab

by Lucy Kaplansky


capoed (II), but, i like the way it sounds my way, no capo, in A.
another song i wished i'd written, too, except lucy got to it first!
( few years ago)
as usual suggestions, correction, donations are welcome.
 laura

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THE TIDE

   -Lucy Kaplansky

   

          
There are demons in the water
          
There are devils in the sea
          
There are dangers in the current
                         
When the tide goes out of me

         
I could drink you under the table
         
I could drink you out of town
         
I could drink you off the planet
                      
Drink myself into the ground

                           
And I have nothing for you tonight
                         
I have nothing for you tonight
                        
I have nothing for you tonight
                  
I have nothing for you

       
I was made to be a good girl
        
Carried buckets made of stone
        
Full of envy, full of sorrow
                   
On a tightrope all alone

            
And all the time I was on fire
   
I burned with every stride
    
And now I see this anger
                        
Is the horse I choose to ride

         
Now you say you want something nice from me
            
Well if you find it, take it, it's on me
        
In the meantime don't bother me
                        
The tide has washed the nice from me

                           
And I have nothing for you tonight
                         
I have nothing for you tonight
                        
I have nothing for you tonight
                  
I have nothing for you

   
In nothing are the voices
         
And the pictures of my life
        
In the nothing of the sky
                   
Is an ocean made of light

       
In the nothing of my silence
      
Is a sad-eyed little girl
     
On a tightrope she is singing
                          
As she passes through this world

                          
And I have nothing for you tonight
                         
I have nothing for you tonight
                        
I have nothing for you tonight
                  
I have nothing for you ...

9/09/01