On the Flip of a Coin Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[B]Fro[Em]m[Am][Em][Am]
the point he gazed from the choice was made,
but 'walk the cave or the [Em]shore?'
The oily cave seemed to breathe on
him through gravestone jaws
[Am]His little hand grasped in anguish as
he weighed up his coin
[Em]Somewhere a blue-eyed girl girl in the world
is just waiting for a boy
[Am]Footprints trailed as if trod by slaves
up to the grey cave floor
[Em]But not one graze from anything
ever escaping this fort
So [Am]with coin on hand his joy came back
when ordered to take the shore
[Em]'Why on earth', as he wandered the warmth,

[Verse 2]
'am I obeying this coin?'
[Am]Turn your life on the flip of this coin
[Em]Turn upside a choice
you'd normally avoid
And [Am]promise me you'll follow what it says
[Em]Whatever it says

[Verse 3]
Again, [Am]walk within the trusted beach
or swim the swell of the sea?
And [Em]again the scarier alternative looked
like certain death to he
[Am]He'd never learnt to skill of swimming
- it never occurred to be very easy
An[Em]d again he winced as he flipped
the coin and it twirled to his feet
[Am]'How is this sane?' he blamed
the coin now aiming for the waves
As [Em]he hesitated at the swirl of water
as it raged and rained
[Am]Blue-eyed girls girls were waiting and
he was drowning in the spray
[Em]Blue-eyed girls girls he should have been

[Verse 4]
acquainted with but for shouting and flailing
[Am]Turn your life on the flip of this coin
[Em]Turn upside a choice
you'd normally avoid
And [Am]promise me you'll follow what it says
[Em]Whatever it says

[Verse 5]
He [Em]finally slugs it back to land feeling
chewed-up and and foolish
[B]Empties his pockets on the sand
spewing a [Em]pool each
Staggers back to his dad
who's too cool to be
So he [B]says 'why did you have [Baug]me
follow this stupid [Em]rule, please?'
To be [Am]honest little fellow I'll tell you
I was just as afraid as you
But [Em]you said you wanted to get with
people and places ever new
And [Am]I got a bit scared of the fate
of my baby son's future
So I [Em]invented a reason to see
if you could ever make do
As [Am]soon as you appeared behind
that rock looking angry at me
I [Em]soon realized what a hell of
a man you've ended up being
I [Am]knew you'd worked out how to
swim, which I hadn't had in me
And I [Em]stand as a companion of you,
proudest a man has ever been

[Verse 6]
[Am]Turn your life on the flip of this coin
[Em]Turn upside a choice
you'd normally avoid
And [Am]promise me you'll follow
what it [Em]says

[Outro 1]
Whatever it says
[Em][Em][Em][Em]