Before the Water Gets Too High Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[A][Am][A][C][Am][C]
[Am][D]
[C]
[A]Seldom

[Verse 1]
[Am]
have I ever questioned the en[C]d
[Am]Still I grow frost when I'm [C]re[Am]
[D]minded[C][A]
Euphemisms on a [Am]loop inter[C]change
Which hands [Am]get to turn
[C]the final [Am]page?
[D]In whose throat belongs the swan song
Crisis, warming, denial, [C]change?
[A]State TV

[Verse 2]
[Am]helps the public explain[C]
Broad[Am]cast beamed into
the dry ter[C]rain[Am]
[D]Images of drenched survival
[C]Wit[D]hout hope but soaked
with [C]pain[A]
Con[Am]sequences of reality [C]felt
All con[Am]ditions of human[C]ity [Am]built
[D]On the bridges
Tent villages waiting for the state to [C]help

[Verse 3]
[Bb]Glass barely bends before it c[D]racks
[Bb]Embedded down into our p[D]ath
[Bb]Paved in the crimson of our [D]tracks
[Bb]Without the chance of turning back[G]
[C]Before the

[Verse 4]
[Am]water gets [C]too high[Am][D]
[C]Before the [Am]water gets too
[C]high
[D][Am][C][D][C]

[Verse 5]
[Am]If the clock strikes midnight then[C]
[D]What becom[Am]es of our
[C]demon[D]strations?[C]
[Am]To which fate have these
gatherings [C]fell?
[Am]Which halls echo all the chants we yelled
[D]Into faces on the coins we tossed
into the wishing [C]well?

[Verse 6]
[Am]Drinking water on which we subsist[C]
[Am]Mixing into rivers that did
not exist [D]yesterday
When all the warning signs were
there but sorely [C]missed
[Am]What's it worth all the
money [C]we made
[Am]Floating idly in a newborn lake?
[D]Far above financial centers
Cities sink like market [C]rates

[Verse 7]
[Bb]Glass barely bends before it c[D]racks
[Bb]Embedded down into our p[D]ath
[Bb]Paved in the crimson of our [D]tracks
[Bb]Without the chance of turning back[G]
[C]Before the

[Verse 8]
[Am]water gets too high
[C]Add up [D]the bri[Am]bes you take
And know [D]time can't be bought
By the profits that you make
[C]Before the [Am]water gets too high
[C]To flo[D]at the powers t[Am]hat be
Or is it [D]someone else's job
Until the rich are refugees?
[C]Before the [Am]water gets [C]too high[D][Am]
[C]Before the [D]water gets too high
[C]Before the [Am]wa ter gets
[C]too high[D][Am]
Before the [D]water gets too high
[C]