Boat Song (song)

Name	Boat Song
Album/single	Shihad
Length	4.53 (album version)
Alternative titles
First live performance
Recorded	June/July 1996
Writer/composer	Shihad
Producer	GGGarth

Additional Information

Song meaning as told by Jon: "It's about a cute little dream I had about the boys, it's about the band I think. It wasn't about the band when I had the dream, but after reading the lyrics I think it is". Rip It Up, Oct. 1996

Lyrics

All of us, connected
All of us on the same road home
And if one should fall or falter
Then we all reach down together as one
And we lift them up again

Only in our world
Could we find some meaning
So we created our own
Still here today

I had a dream, I was lost at sea
All of you
Afloat on the same boat home
Please throw me a line
I think I'm drowning
So you all lent over
To pick me up
And we spent the rest of the night swimming

Nobody's falling over
Don't need to know what you're thinking
Kissed the world goodbye
And then we ran away

Tabs

Guitar

Tabbed by: G
Email: whateva@whateva.we

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

This is pretty bare, but you get the idea. The whole thing's basically just the same
C-F chord progression.

Intro & Verses


e|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-------------------|-------------------|
G|-------------------|-------------------|
D|--2-2-3-3-3--------|--2-2-3-2---3------|
A|--3-3-----3--------|--3-3-----3-----3--|
E|-------------------|---------(1)--1----|

    C   F               C   F

Play twice through for the Intro, then Verse 1...

    All of us connected
    All of us on the same road home
    And if one should fall or falter
    Then we all reach down together as one, and we lift them up again


The actual chorus is played on a piano, but I generally just pick or strum the same
C and F chords as the Verses and it sounds OK.

 
[C]  [F]               [C]   [F]  
           Only in our world
                   [C]   [F]  
Could we find some meaning
                  [C]   [F]
So we created our own
                  [C]   [F]      
Still here today
                     


The second verse mostly uses this little variation

e|-------------------|-----------------------|
B|-------------------|-----------------------|
G|-------------------|-----------------------|
D|--2-2-3-3-3--------|--2-2-3-2---3p2-3p2----|
A|--3-3-----3--------|--3-3-----3---------3--|
E|-------------------|--- -----(1)---(1)-----|

    C   F             C   F
 
    I had a dream, I was lost at sea
    All of you, afloat on the same boat home
    Please throw me a line, I think I'm drowning
    So you all leant over to pick me up, and we spent the rest of the night swimming

Chorus: Same deal as above.

[C]  [F]                     [C]  [F] 
           Nobody's falling apart
                             [C]  [F]
Don't need to know what your thinking
                     [C]  [F]
Kissed the world goodbye
                     [C]  [F] 
And then we ran away
            [C]  [F]
Only in our world
                   [C]  [F]
Could we find some meaning
                  [C]  [F]
So we created our own
                  [C]  [F]
Still here today