Capo on three (or two, if that suits your voice better)!
Chords -
Em * (xxx453) (Basically Dm moved up two)
D (xxx232)
C (x32010)
Cadd9 (x32033)
Em7 (x22033)
Em * is an Em chord, but it's a variation. Hence, the asterisk!
Intro: Em * D Em * D C D
Verse:
Em * D
I believe right now if I could
Em * D
I would swallow you whole
Em * D
I would leave only bones and teeth
Em * D
We could see what was underneath
Cadd9
And you would be free then
Em * D Em * D
Once I thought only tears could make us free
Em * D
Salt wearing down to the bone
Em * D
Like sand against the stone
Cadd9
Against the shoreline
Chorus (strum):
Em7 D
I am friend to the undertow
Em7 D
I take you in, I don't let go
Cadd9
And now I have you
Em * D Em * D
Ooh
Verse:
Em * D
I wanted to learn all the secrets
Em * D
From the edge of a knife
Em * D
From the point of a needle, from a diamond
Em * D
From a bullet in flight
Cadd9
I would be free then
Chorus:
Em7 D
I am friend to the undertow
Em7 D
I take you in, I don't let go
Cadd9
And now I have you
Em7 D
I am friend to the undertow
Em7 D
I take you in, I don't let go
Cadd9
And now I have you
Verse:
Em * D Em * D
I wanted to see how it would feel to be that sleek
Em * D Em * D
And instead I find this hunger's made me weak
C D
I believe right now if I could
Em * D
I would swallow you whole
Em * D
I would leave only bones and teeth
Em * D
We could see what was underneath
Cadd9
And you would be free then
Chorus:
Em7 D
I am friend to the undertow
Em7 D
I take you in, I don't let go
Cadd9
And now I have you
Em7 D
I am friend to the undertow
Em7 D
I take you in, I don't let go
Cadd9
And now I have you
Em * D Em * D
Ooh
End on Em * ...