The Bridge

TRACK LISTING: 1.RUSHING WATER 2.IF IT'S LOVE 3.THE BOOK OF NUMBERS 4.LOVING YOU 5.HARMONY ROAD 6.FOR HER LOVE 7.THE HILLS ON THE BORDER 8.CAPTAIN BATEMAN 9.THE BELLS OF ST. THOMAS 10.THE BRIDGE BONUS TRACKS (for deluxe edition) 11.WATERS OF TYNE 12.CAPTAIN BATEMAN'S BASEMENT 13.(SITTIN' ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 1 - RUSHING WATER WRITERS: STING GAVIN BROWN, MARTIN KIERSZENBAUM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPO: 4 KEY: G#m Em D G C Em D G C Em D G C Em D G C Em D G C How many times have I had this dream Em D G C That wakes me from my slumber? Em D G C How will I ever get to sleep again Em D G C Counting sheep in a Book of Numbers? Em D G C How many times have I had this dream Em D G C With you walking towards me from the river? Em D G C And when will I ever get to rest again Em D G C Wondering if I can deliver? Am D This is the sound of rushing water Am D Flooding through my brain Am D This is the sound of God's own daughter Am D Calling out your name Em D G C This is the sound of atmospheres Em D G C Three metric tonnes of pressure Em D G C This is the sum of all my fears Em D G C Something I just can't measure Em D G C I remеmber the story of Jonah Em D G C He was trappеd in the belly of a whale Em D G C How many times must he succeed? Em D G C How many times must he fail? Am D This is the sound of rushing water Am D Flooding through my brain Am D This is the sound of God's own daughter Am D Calling out your name G C D Em I'll see my shrink on an analyst's couch G C D Em Hit me with a hammer and I'll say, "Ouch" G C D Em What we have here is so easy to solve G C D Em Just takes a firm purpose and some resolve Am D This is the sound of rushing water (Rushing water) Am D Flooding through my brain (Flooding through my brain) Am D This is the sound of God's own daughter (God's own daughter) Am D Calling out your name Am D This is the sound of rushing water (Rushing water) Am D Flooding through my brain (Flooding through my brain) Am D This is the sound of God's own daughter (God's own daughter) Am D Calling out your name D Your name, your name D Your name, your name D Your name, your name, your name, your Em D G C Em D G C Ease into the water Em D G C Flooding through your brain Em D G C Ease into the water Em D G C Calling out your name Em D G C Ease into the water Em D G C Flooding through your brain Em D G Ease into the water -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 2 - IF IT'S LOVE WRITERS: STING -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NO CAPO KEY: C D C D C D C D C D C D C D C G D C D Jumped out of bed this morning G D C With a smile upon my face G D C D It's still there while I shave my chin G D C But the reasons hard for me to trace G D C D I cook myself some breakfast G D C Have some coffee while I muse G D C D Where could this smile have come from? G D C It's a muscle that I rarely use Em G C G Call the doctor with my symptoms Em G C Should I spend all day in bed? Em G C G Can you explain what's ailing me? Am D And this is what my doctor said G If it's love, it has no season Em If it's love, there is no cure Am If it's love, it won't see reason D And of this you can be sure G If it's love, you must surrender (You must surrender) Em If it's love that's turned you 'round (That's turned you 'round) Am If it's love, the odds are slender (The odds are) D If it's love, you're sunk without a trace D One case can bring you down C D C D C D C D G D G D You smile and your heart skips a beat G D C You hear a church bell chiming G D G D A sound that's ringing in your ears G D C Will set your heartbeat climbing Em G C G And my doctor's diagnosis? Em G C Em G C G His opinion and a quote, "I'll write you a prescription" Am D And this is what my doctor wrote G If it's love, it has no season Em If it's love, there is no cure Am If it's love, it won't see reason D And of this you can be sure G If it's love, you must surrender (You must surrender) Em If it's love, then you must yield (Then you must yield) Am If it's love, the odds are slender (The odds are) D If it's love, the trap's already laid D And I'm afraid your fate is all but sealed C D C D C D C D C D C D C D C D C D C D -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 3 - THE BOOK OF NUMBERS WRITERS: STING DOMINIC MILLER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPO: 4 KEY: Am G C Am G C Am G C Am G C Am G C Bring me a glass of water Am G C To wash the dirt from my throat Am G C I've been wandering my whole life out there Am G C Help me out of my coat Am G C This water's as clear as crystal Am G C We should thank the Lord for that Am G C Sit you down and hear my story Am G F Find somewhere for my hat Am G C A barkeep takes a stranger's hat Am G C And finds a vacant hook Am G C Turns back towards the traveller F His right hand on an old black book Am G Dm The holy Book of Numbers Dm G Am I take it's something that you've read? Am G Dm The long search in the wilderness Dm G F For a place to lay my head Am G C So many parables in the scriptures Am G C But this one I'm doomed to tell Am G C For I stormed the gates of Heaven Am G C To find myself in Hell Am G C This is my lonely mission Am G C To wake the world up to its fate Am G C To dismantle my own invention Am G F Dm For the hour is getting late Am G Dm This holy Book of Numbers Dm G Am As we walk through the shadow of death Am G Dm Tell me, are you listening, boy Dm G Am Or am I just wasting my breath? Am G C There are fools in the courts of power Dm G Am While I've walked through this vale of bitter tears Am G C At the mercy of recording angels Dm G F For three score and twenty-five years Am G C The barkeep gets up from the table Am G C To fill up another glass Am G C He turns around to find an empty chair Am G C All that's left is the name in his hat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 4 - LOVING YOU WRITERS: STING MAYA JANE COLES Tabbed by: danieladriano2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NO CAPO KEY: Am | Am | G Am | 4x Am G You say that I don't listen Am G That I don't give you no respect Am G You took your love to some other place Am G Now, what did you expect? Am G We made vows inside the church Am G To forgive each other's sins Am G But there are things I have to endure Am G Like the smell of another man's skin Am G Am If that's not loving you, I don't know what is (I don't know what) G Am If that's not loving you, then tell me what it is G Am If that's not loving you, I don't know what is (I don't know what) G Am If that's not loving you, then tell me what it is Am G You say you wanted children Am G And you would grow into a mother Am G But in my mind's eye, I would see you Am G In the arms of another Am G I am given to jealousy Am G I've been given to violence Am G But I could never raise a hand in my defence Am G So I suffer here in silence Am G Am If that's not loving you, I don't know what is (I don't know what) G Am If that's not loving you, then tell me what it is G Am If that's not loving you, I don't know what is (I don't know what) G Am If that's not loving you, then tell me what it is | Am | G Am | 2x Am G Am I pray the waters of forgiveness G Am Will rain down on you and me G Am Just like newborn babies G Am G In the cradle of a tree Am G And we will walk in righteousness Am G We will walk in rain and thunder Am G And what God has joined together here Am G Let no man put asunder Am G Am If that's not loving you, I don't know what is (I don't know what) G Am If that's not loving you, then tell me what it is G Am If that's not loving you, I don't know what is (I don't know what) G Am If that's not loving you, then tell me what it is G Am If that's not loving you, I don't know what is (I don't know what) G Am If that's not loving you, then tell me what it is G Am If that's not loving you, I don't know what is (I don't know what) G Am If that's not loving you, then tell me what it is -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 5 - HARMONY ROAD WRITERS: STING DOMINIC MILLER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPO: 3 KEY: G Em Bm D G A G g Em The street where we live Bm F#m Is commonly known as being the wrong side of town G Em They look down their noses at you Bm A Like they're entitled to keep you down G Em Our street has its social issues Bm F#m And violent crime by the bucket load G A G They laughed when they named it Harmony Road G Em They say where you're born Bm F#m Will have an effect on how you turn out in life G Em So how can you make a living Bm A When all you have is a pocket knife? G Em You don't have the choice to run Bm F#m From anothеr violent episode G A G Wеlcome to life here on Harmony Road G Em Bm F#m One day, we'll make a break G Em Bm A Get out of here, make no mistake G Em We'll steal a car Bm F#m Find a happy song on the radio G A G And never come back to Harmony Road G Em You walk down the hill Bm F#m And past the old factory shuttered for twenty years G Em There used to be work Bm A But you wonder how you'll ever get out of here G Em If I had a song in me Bm F#m I would pay off all of the debts I owed G A G I'm all out of tune on Harmony Road G Em I'll find us some money Bm F#m And I will take you with me, I promise you G Em I'll buy you some fancy clothes Bm A And we'll do all the things we wanted to G Em And no one will know Bm F#m That we're any different, we're just à la mode G A G The king and the queen of Harmony Road Bb G C D Bb G C D Bb G C G# Fm Cm Gm One day, we'll make a break from here G# Fm Cm Bb We'll make it big and have no fear G# Fm Won't carry the social stigma Cm Gm Of being judged by our postal code G# Bb G# And we will be done with Harmony Road G# Fm But then in our dreams Cm Gm Are we to be haunted by what we left behind? G# Fm That road has a way of Cm Bb Pulling you back if ever you give it mind G# Fm No matter the riches Cm Gm And all the palaces where we may have strode G# Bb G# We'll always belong to Harmony Road G# Bb G# We'll always belong to Harmony Road -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 6 - FOR HER LOVE WRITERS: STING MARTIN KIERSZENBAUM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPO: 3 KEY: Bm D Gmaj7 Em Bm D Gmaj7 Em Bm D Gmaj7 Em What would a man not do? Bm D Gmaj7 Em What would a man not say? Bm D Gmaj7 Em What would a man not agree to? Bm D Gmaj7 Em What would he not betray? Bm D Gmaj7 Em Where would a man fear to trespass? Bm D Gmaj7 Em Where would a man not stray? Bm D Gmaj7 Em What crime would a man not admit to? Bm D Gmaj7 Em What price would a man not pay? G (For her love) A Bm F#m He's got no money but his head's up in the stars G (For her love) A Bm a He'll spray her name across a streetcar G (For her love) A Bm If he can't read between the lines up there on Mars A G (For her love) A F#m He'll find some meaning in a street light Bm D Gmaj7 Em What would a man not consent to? Bm D Gmaj7 Em What would a man not face? Bm D Gmaj7 Em What would a man not agree to? Bm D Gmaj7 Em What lies would a man not embrace? G (For her love) A Bm F#m Hе'll find a job, he'll work his fingers to the bonе G (For her love) A Bm A She's safely sleeping in the moonlight G (For her love) A Bm He'll save his money, buy a place to call their own A G (For her love) A F#m And he will be the one she loves Bm C#m By the stretch of my fingers Em (For her love) G By the strength in my hands (For her love) G C#m By the blood that flows in my veins (For her love) Em Gm By the pulse of my beating heart (For her love) G Gm By the sun up in Heaven, by the moon and the stars (For her love) F#m By the circling planets F#m Bm D Gmaj7 Em And the lines on the surface, the surface of Mars Bm D Gmaj7 Em Bm D Gmaj7 Em Bm D Gmaj7 Em What would a man not do? Bm D Gmaj7 Em Bm D Gmaj Em What would a man not say? N.C. For her love? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 7 - THE HILLS ON THE BORDER WRITERS: STING -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NO CAPO KEY: A C C Em Oh, the hills on the border C D 'Bout this time of the year C D Em When the mists seem to gather C Bm Em In the valley of your fears C Em And you walk through that valley C D As day turns to night C D Em Is there something in the shadows C Bm Em Or the failing of the light? C Em I was walking home last evening C D When perhaps I should have ran C D Em From a darkening of shadows C Bm Em In the shape of a man C Em It said, "Talk to me, stranger C D Or may I call you brother? C D Em Let us make our way together C Bm Em From this place to another G D I don't carry any weapon G D I don't carry any staff C D Em But I'll carry half your burden C Bm Em Till your journey's cut in half G D Let me sharе of your burden G D The lifetimе you will carve C D Em And the gravestone that you carry C Bm Am Bm C D Em D G Will be a burden halved" Am C D Em D G C Em He sat down by the roadside C D As the mists they gathered 'round C D Em Takes some cards from his pocket C Bm Em That he spreads upon the ground C Em He said, "This card is a woman C D You will love but not possess C D Em And this card's a man you'll murder C Bm Em But you'll never confess G D I don't carry any weapon G D I don't carry any staff C D Em But I'll carry half your burden C Bm Em Till your journey's cut in half G D Let me sharе of your burden G D The lifetimе you will carve C D Em And the gravestone that you carry C Bm Am Bm C D Em D G Will be a burden halved" Am C D Em D G D A I said, "Why should I trust you? D A Or the cards that you have thrown? G A Bm I don't know you from the Devil G F#m Bm And this burden is my own" D A He said, "I have the gift of secrets D A From our Father, little brother G A Bm Let us make our way together G F#m Em From this world to another" C Em Oh, the hills on the border C D 'Bout this time of the year C D Em When the mists seem to gather C Bm Em In the valley of your fears C Em And you walk through that valley C D Your coat around your ears C D Em As you walk to the borders C Bm Em From the valley of your fears C D Em As you walk to the borders C Bm Em From the valley of your fears C D Em As you walk to the borders C Bm Em From the valley of your fears -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 8 - CAPTAIN BATEMAN WRITERS: STING Tabbed by: danieladriano2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NO CAPO KEY: D | Eadd9 | Eadd9 | N.C. Lord Bateman was a noble lord A A noble lord of high degree G A Eadd9 Imprisoned in some foreign country G D/F# E To spend his life in captivity G A Eadd9 He is a captain in the King's own Navy G Aadd9 He'd spent his life upon the cold grey sea G A Eadd9 What would he give now for a plate of meat and gravy G D/F# E Or for an angel to appear and set him free G A Eadd9 For seven years he lives on bread and dirty water G Aadd9 A single candle in his prison room for light G A Eadd9 Into the cell will walk the pretty jailer's daughter G D/F# E The cloak she's wearing is as black as any night D G A She is a creature of captivating beauty D G A As this bold captain's hungry eyes would ever see G A Eadd9 She looks upon him with the eye of love's desire G D/F# E And so he begs her, "Lady, will ye set me free?" G A Eadd9 "What can you offer if you gain your freedom? G Aadd9 I'll lose my heart if I should ever set you free G A Eadd9 I have the keys if you'll deliver me a promise G D/F# E Should I release you, then you'll vow to marry me" D G A "You are a creature of captivating beauty D G A We could run and make a life beyond the sea" G A Eadd9 He takes her hand in his and makes a solemn promise G D/F# E "Unchain me now and I will vow to marry thee" G A Eadd9 Beneath the city walls and down into the harbour G Aadd9 She'll throw his chains into the wine-dark sea G A Eadd9 They'll find a ship, but now his hand is forced to stay her G D/F# E "In truth, I never could have married thee" D G A She was a creature of captivating beauty D G A He still has many miles of ocean to traverse G A Eadd9 His broken promises will move the gods to anger G D/F# E All broken promises will render matters worse G A Eadd9 She sees the black storm clouds on the horizon G D/F# E D His solemn promises lie broken A/C# A G D/F# E And whispered on the wind, as if it's spoken Eadd9 He'll hear a maiden's curse | Eadd9 | Eadd9 | 8x -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 9 - THE BELLS OF ST. THOMAS WRITERS: STING DOMINIC MILLER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPO: 2 KEY: G Em G Em G Em G Em G I wake up in Antwerp Em In some rich woman's bed G There's a man with a hammer Em Inside of my head G She says, "I couldn't wake you Em I thought you were dead G But you talked in your sleep Em I don't know what you said" Cmaj7 I look in the mirror Em My eyes bleeding red Cmaj7 There's a taste in my mouth En Of stale brandy and lead Cmaj7 Don't know how I got here Gmaj7 Or if I was led B But I know it's a Sunday G#m For the bells in my head E As they call to the faithful C#m The quick and the dead G#m F# The last days of judgement upon us E C#m And the bells on the roof of St. Thomas G#m Are calling G Shе says, "Are you hungry? Em You look underfed" G "No, I'd bеtter be going F#m I'll have coffee instead" G "Let me give you some money" Em I say, "There's no need G You don't owe me nothing Em It's what we agreed" Cmaj7 But the room's like a palace Em In a book I once read Cmaj7 And the words that I'm thinking Em Would be better unsaid Cmaj7 I search for my clothes G Then she asks if I'll stay B "There's a room for you here G#m My husband's away" E The bells of St. Thomas C#m Are aching with doubt G#m They're cracked and they're broken F# Like the earth in a drought E I've searched for their meaning C#m I just never found out G#m F# Whatever they're expecting from us E C#m Or why the bells on the roof of St. Thomas G#m Are crying A F#m I walk to the church, though it's empty by now A F#m The roof like an overturned ship, and a prow A F#m For a pulpit, and there it is upon the wall A F#m St. Thomas inspecting the wounds for us all Dmaj7 It's a painting by Rubens F#m Painted from life Dmaj7 And it's flanked by a rich man F#m And his elegant wife Dmaj7 The wounds we all share A And yet still need the proof Fm You can feign your indifference Bbm Pretend you're aloof F# D#m But the wounds we're denying are there all the same Bbm G# And the bells of St. Thomas start ringing again F# The saint I was named for D#m The sceptical brother Bbm The rich man's wife G# In the arms of another F# And the exit wounds D#m Of a love that's gone wrong Bbm She said she was leaving G# But she'd already gone F#m D And the last days of judgement are finally upon on us A D And the bells on the roof of St. Thomas A Are calling -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 10 - THE BRIDGE WRITERS: STING -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPO: 1 KEY: C C Am They say there's a bridge up there Dm C G Up there in the mist C Am Some will deny it's there Dm C G Others will tell you it don't even exist F C G Am It's not made of iron or steel nor stone Dm C G Yet it spans the rising waters F G Am We are but bags of blood and bone Dm C G If we carry the weight of our sons and our daughters F C G Am And now that feels are rather drowned Dm C G And we climb up to the ridge F G Am Some will seek the higher ground Dm G C Some of us the bridge C Am G If all is bеhind us now Dm C G Beneath us swollen rivеr C G Am The bridge we will find somehow Dm C G Only then we would be delivered F C G Am Though some will claim to be inclined Dm C G It's a figment or a ghost F G Am But the bridge is deep inside the mind Dm C G Invisible to most F C G Am And now the city's all but drowned Dm C G And here upon the ridge F G Am Some will seek the higher ground Dm G C Some of us the bridge F G Am We'll open the gates that we may follow Dm C G Open the bridge to all of us F G Am Open the floodgate to the river Dm C G C Open the bridge that we may cross -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BONUS TRACKS (for deluxe edition) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 11 - WATERS OF TYNE WRITERS: STING -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPO: KEY: C C Am I cannot get to my love if I would die; Dm C F The water of Tyne runs between her and me Am Dm F And here I must stand with a tear in my 'ee C F C Both sighing and sickly, my true love to see C Am Dm Oh, where is the boatman, oh, my bonny hinny? Dm C F Oh, where is the boatman? bring him to me Am Dm F To ferry me over the Tyne to my honey C D F C And I will remember the boatman and thee F C It's starting to rain and I'm froze to the marrow F F I see her as plainly as she can see me F C It's less than a mile between North Shields and Jarrow F C And the ship of my heart's carriеd out to the sea C Am Oh, bring me a boatman, I'll give any money Dm G F And you for your troubles rewarded shall be Am Dm F To ferry me over the Tyne to my honey C F C Or scull her across the rough river to me -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 12 - CAPTAIN BATEMAN'S BASEMENT WRITERS: STING -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPO: KEY: PART A bm Em Am Bm Am Bm Bm Am Bm Bm Am Em Am Bm Am Bm PART B F#m A F#m A Am Bm Em Bm F#m G#m C#m F#m B Bm C#m F#m Bm C#m F#m PART C Bm F#m Bm Bm A F#m Bm Bm Em A Bm PART D F#m A Bm F#m A F#m Bm A F#m Bm A F#m Bm F#m C#m Am Bm Am PART E F#m Bm A Bm F#m Bm Em A Gm F#M Em Bm Em F#m E Bm Bm E D Bm D Bm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 13 - (SITTIN' ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY WRITERS: STEVE CROPPER, OTIS REDDING -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NO CAPO KEY: G G B7 Sittin' in the mornin' sun C A I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes G B7 Watchin' the ships roll in C A Then I watch 'em roll away again G E I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay G E Watchin' the tide roll away G A I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay G E Wastin' time G B7 I left my home in Georgia C A And headed for the 'Frisco Bay G B7 'Cause I got nothin' to live for C A Looks like nothin's gonna come my way G E Just sittin' on the dock of the bay G E Watchin' the tide roll away G A I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay G E Wastin' time G D C Looks like nothin's gonna change G D C Everything seems to stay the same G D C I can't do what ten people tell me to do F D So I guess I'll remain the same G B7 Sittin' here restin' my bones C A And this loneliness won't leave me alone G B7 Two thousand miles I roamed C A Just to make this dock my home G E I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay G E Watchin' the tide roll away G A I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay G E Wastin' time G E G E G