The night’s synthetic half-light
Rolls over your steering wheel
I’m closing my eyes just for a while

(Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)

The house, the first thing I see
Filled up with a family
Surrounded by city and by sea
Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)
Will you wake me when we’re almost halfway
I don’t wanna take this trip alone

A saint is chasing a snake
For everybody’s sake
And so they go burning cars
(Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)

The mother prepares the weapon
Before handing it to son
Who watches his daddy runs

(Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)
Will you wake me when we’re almost halfway
I don’t wanna take this trip alone
Cause I’d never reach my home

The flames wander through the city
And set fire to the sea
Then out of the blaze appears a face
(Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)

A girl with a look in her eyes
As if to say, “I despise
Such poisonous family ties”
(Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)

But a poison as sweet as nectar
Could never forget or neglect her
It carries her home and closes her eyes
(Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)

So she goes back under, swallows the water
Fixes her face like a good little daughter
And follows her family, Who follow a saint and a snake
(Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)
Will you wake me when we’re almost halfway
I don’t wanna take this trip alone
Cause I’d never reach my home

C Em x2

No I’d never reach my home
No I’d never reach my home

My Home

(Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)
(Wake me when we’re almost halfway)
(Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)
(Wake me when we’re almost halfway)
(Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)
(Wake me when we’re almost halfway)
(Can you call me when we’re almost halfway)
(Wake me when we’re almost halfway)

The Meaning of The Ritual – The Villagers

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Tabbed by: Brandon Peralta (tabster9000)
Email: dakid9496@aol.com

Tuning: Standard

INTRO:

VERSE:
My love is selfish,
and I bet that your’s is too.
What is this peculiar word called truth?

My love is selfish,
and it cares not who it hurts.
It will cut you out to satisfy its thirst
For the meaning of the ritual, so habitual and cursed

My love is selfish,
How it separates the earth.
It takes every shiny stone but leaves the dirt,
for the cowards in the corner who just don’t know what they’re worth
They’ve been twisted by a hollow kind of pain.
Oh I can see it in their eyes but I ignore it every day, because

my love is selfish,
and it remembers everything
Like the first time it was moved enough to sing
How it dangled on that stage just like a puppet on a string

D Gadd#11 – G x3

How heavy you are, my newborn child
So viciously free, so careless and wild
With the eyes of a saint and the soul of a thief
And a newfound[Gadd#11]land[-]

[Gadd#11] [-]
( Tab fr[Gadd#11]om: http[-]://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/v/villagers/in_a_newfound_land_you_are_free_crd.html )
The window’s reveal the spinning sea
Which ripples and rolls as it runs underneath
And I smuggle this sense of sheer disbelief
In a newfound[Gadd#11]land[-]

D Gadd#11 – G x2

Born in the birth of the mild month of May
And your gentle repose, I could never betray
But for now I am burnt by a lifetime too brief
And with this newfoun[Gadd#11]dland[-]

[Gadd#11] [-]
Comes a newfound [Gadd#11]grief[-]

[Gadd#11] [-]
(ch)Dm/A(/ch) (ch)Dm/Bb(/ch) Dm/B
But in a newfoundland

You are free[Gadd#11][-]

[Gadd#11] [-]
[Gadd#11] [-]

I got the chords from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v_GdjFqR9RZg

Em-Esus4 alternate between Em and Esus4

There are wave[Em-Esus4]s up in the diamond sky
Stronger than you and I
Im a wave[Em-Esus4], I break through the barrier reef
Cut through the carbon sea, approaching the s[D/C]hore
[Em-Esus4]Look at the sky, look at the trees, man, its all the same to me
Look at the cars, look at the birds and all of these invented words

One bodys dying breath is anothers birth
[D/C]What are you running from? What are you running from?
[Em-Esus4]Sister jewelry, brother judging, you are recognized this grudge

Buried deep beneath the sands of these ridiculous demands
No time for innocence, or sitting on the fence
[D/C]What are you gonna do? What are you gonna
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/v/villagers/the_waves_acoustic_crd.html )
When the waves cover the coasta[G/F#]l plains
The tents and the cars and the trains
And the trace of honey bees sanitaries
Of well insulated dignitaries[G/F#]
All screaming of the memory of the human love
For anything, or anyone

[Em-Esus4]Look at the birds, look at the bees, madam, its all the same to me
Look at the girls, look at the gold gathered, beat and bought and sold

One mans innocence is anothers chance
[D/C]What were you thinking of? What were you thinking of?
[Em-Esus4]Now please let me boil it down to this, my son
This partys getting wet, but it aint over yet
[D/C]So what is it gonna be? What is it gonna be? What is it gonna be?

Just let the waves cover the coa[G/F#]stal plains
The fear and guilt and the pain
And the trace of honey bee jealousy
Of well insulated bigotry[G/F#]
And if you dont agree
You better get back inside your cave
cause were all dancing with the waves

Up in the diamond sky
Stronger than you and I
Im a wave[D/C]
I break through the barrier reef
Cut through the carbon sea

Approaching the shore (18x): D D/C Em G (repeat)

Last chord: D/C

Savanna scatters and the seabird sings
So why should we fear what travel brings?
What were we hoping to get out of this?
Some kind of momen-tary bliss?

I waited for Something, and Something died
So I waited for Nothing, and Nothing arrived
It’s our dearest ally, it’s our closest friend
It’s our darkest blackout, it’s our final end
My dear sweet Nothing, let’s start a new
From here all in is just me and you

I waited for Something and Something died
So I waited for Nothing, and Nothing arrived
C (barr) Em G
Well I guess it’s over, I guess it’s begun
C (barr) Em G
It’s a losers’ table, but we’ve already won
C (barr) Em G
It’s a funny battle, it’s a constant game
C (barr) Em G
I guess I was busy when Nothing came

I guess I was busy (when Nothing arrived)
I guess I was busy (when Nothing arrived)
I guess I was busy (when Nothing arrived)
I guess I was busy (when Nothing arrived)
I guess I was busy (when Nothing arrived)

D …
I waited for Something and Something died
So I waited for Nothing, and Nothing arrived
I waited for Something and Something died
So I waited for Nothing, and Nothing arrived