Mew - Cross The River On Your Own
Standard tuning
Intro:
|G |C |
|G |C |
Verse 1:
G C
I know a way to kill the ripple from your touch
G C
And what if I can only settle for much?
D Em7
It stays with you
D G C
You’re like a sky so drizzly
That I want
D Em7 D G C
‘Till I take it out on you
Bm7 Bm C
Show me how to keep you in
Chorus:
G
You be good to me
D C
And I, I’ll be good to you
D
Don’t let go of your light
Bm
It’s your best friend in the world
C A7
I hope you’ll learn what Heaven knows
C
Who cares if I go?
G
Verse 2:
G C
I know a way to tell the middle from the start
G C
And what if telling makes the brittle fall apart?
D Em7 D G C
In time although my hair turns grey and grizzly
D
Stay with me
Chorus:
G
So we cursed a lot
D C
And I’m ashamed of walking out
D Bm
Oh it’s just too bad, we got stuck in the past
C A7
We’re hiding there in silence now
C
It sounds familiar
G
You be good to me
D C
And I, I’ll be good to you
D
I’m off to work
Bm C
But I don’t see you turn
e|-------------|
B|--7---7---5--|
G|--6---6---4--|
D|--7---7---5--|
A|--6---5---3--|
E|-------------|
Bridge:
D#maj7 Gmaj7 Gm7
D#maj7 Gmaj7 A#
D#maj7 Gmaj7
Cross the river on your own
Gm7
On the other side
Gm
You wanna go far away
Gmaj7
On the other side
The riverbed
Follow us there
Chorus:
G
You be good to me
D C
And I, I’ll be good to you
D
Don’t let go of your light
Bm
It’s your best friend in the world
C A7
I hope you’ll learn what Heaven knows
C
Who cares if I go?
G
So we cursed a lot
D C
And I’m ashamed of walking out
D Bm
And my thoughts are wrought with a shortsighted secret
C
And missing you
A7 C
Why do you cry, Paddy?
Outro:
G
Long as I’ve been alive
Old as I am
D C
I’ve still no plan
D
I’m off to work
Bm C
But I don’t see you turn
A7
My life was OK
C
I was counting my steps
G D C
D Bm C
A7 C
G
Beautiful song!
