Into The Ocean Chords by Blue October

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I'm just a normal boy that sank when I [Dm] fell overboard.
[C] My ship would leave the country, but I'd rather swim ashore without_
Being [G#] a fan of Blue October, I knew [F] that Justin, _ _ _ who's a super, super emo guy, [E] super [F#] emotional
person, he's had a hard life.
And that all comes out in his lyrics.
Like, every song is about this inner turmoil that he faces on a daily basis, his [E] challenges,
you know, with addiction and with whatever [C] else.
I'm cold as cold as cold can be, be.
I went to high school [Am] performing the visual arts with Ryan, the violinist, [Em] and we started
a band, I started [G] writing songs, and so he started putting violin to the songs, and then
[E] we asked my brother to start playing the drums, he didn't know how, and he just got on and
started playing a fat beat, you know?
And _ then we got our bassist from a manager across the country from Michigan, and then
we got CB, [Am] and we've just been touring in a van, like, for the last, like, ten years,
and then we finally just [E] had a song break, and it's [F#] crazy.
_ My name's Matt Noveske, I play bass [C] guitar.
CB [F#] Hudson, I play [C] lead guitar.
Relax and float into space, I'm on a swampland.
[Cm] Our first radio was around 2000.
We had a small stint [Fm] with Consent to Treatment, a song [C] called James, and _ then our next album,
History for Sale, we had a song called Calling You, that was regionally played, and it caught
on for a [F#] short amount of time, and it fell off, it was [F] on the American Wedding soundtrack,
and then with [F#] Foils, hey, it's gone [F] crazy.
_ _ _ [C] Welcome back. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Huru, or [D] Erhu, [C] spelled E-R-H-U, it's a Chinese instrument.
I don't [B] know how to play it, I just bought [G] one to learn how to play it, and then we started
doing, [F#] you know, we decided to do the video, and I was like, well, that's perfect, because
the sound of the solo violin and the song, we _ _ emulated the sound of this instrument,
and so I thought it'd be cool to include it in the video.
Thought it'd be kind of cool.
And it worked out great.
Ready to go paint a house?
_ _ _ They say I look like a _ _ 40s [D#] sailor or fisherman or diver or something, who knows? _ _
We like to say [F#] our singer had a bad month, _ but it just comes [Em] from a time of change, and
a [F#]
few people probably needed some serious change back then when we were getting started,
and it was in October, it was kind of _ autumn, everything's changing, and _ the air around
us was fairly blue and [F] somber.
_ I'm sinking to the bottom [C] of my everything, it freaks me out, the lighthouse beam has
just run out.
You mean in comparison to the other videos?
_ This one, to [C] me, is a lot more, there's a lot more production.
It's just a lot more, it's more, instead [F#] of a, like with Hate Me, it _ was kind of more
[D] linear in storyline, like, you know, followed one [F] long continuous [D] scene out of the house,
and then there were band shots, but [C] with this it's like, it seems like it's a lot more chopped up.
[E] It's a lot of fun.
It's [C] fun. _
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_ _ [F#m] I'll [F#] bust out this song to listen to, [C] I think I used to [F#] play something there, you know,
I'll go back and look at it, and be like, oh [F] yeah, I did use to play something there.
Just to kind of [F#] refresh myself, you know, what I actually used [D] to play.
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[F#] This is Red Solo. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Where's the kick? _ _ _
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[A] I'm glad you said that, because I do that too, I'm glad I'm not the only one.
There's been times I'm like, that's not how it goes.
But it [N] just either evolves or changes over time, you know, after a few years, it's like,
you go back and listen to the original version, and you're like, oh yeah, I used to play that
and it's a little different than I have now.
After a match, it's like, boom, boom, boom, [G#] boom, [G] boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And then it progresses like a, boom, [F#] skk, skk, skk, skk, skk.
Yeah, and then [F#] it's all over the place.
We look at it, we're [Bm] like, no!
During the splits, everybody's like, oh [F#m] _ yeah, I forgot.
Sorry.
[D#] _ I got one [F] more for you.
_ Family.
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That's what it is.
_ [A#] _ That's it? _
I'm a man of [F] few words.
Not knowing how to think, I scream aloud, begin to sink.
My legs and arms are broken down with envy for the solid [C] ground.
I'm reaching for the life within me.
How can one man stop this ending?
I'd bought or killed your face, relaxed and floated into [Dm] space.
So when I first [F] heard the track, knowing [F] that and being a fan,
_ that's what the idea came from, is that this entire [C] thing,
the storm, the [F#] play on Moby Dick, the whole thing is a metaphor
for his battles with addiction [D#]
and, [F#] you know, not to be super dark,
but essentially suicide, [E] like overcoming that,
like I want to dive [C] into the ocean, I want to end this.
I don't know if I should.
Let the rain come down.
_ _ _ [A#] If you were a hot dog, would you eat yourself?
Smooth.
If the moon was made [F#] of spare rib, [C] would you eat yourself?
Yes or no [D] questions, simple.
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_ [F#] _ _ [F] _ [C] Now waking to the sun, I calculate what I had done,
like jumping from the bough, yeah, just to prove that I knew [Am] how, yeah.
It's midnight's late reminder of the loss of her, the one [A] I love.
My will to quickly end it all, set one row [Am] in my neat [F] ball.
Into the ocean, end it all.
Into _ _ _ the _ _ _ ocean, _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ end _ _ it all.
I never said that.
Oh, no, I'm just kidding.
Not as cocky like that, but like.
You just met your new guitarist.
Sure, yeah, exactly.
I'm like, I'm the new guy.
_ But listened to a CD and fell [Am] in love with it,
so it was definitely a moment.
_ _ [C] So let me tell that story.
The way it was originally told, basically, he was sitting at the table,
[C] looking kind of down, and it turned out he was figuring out
that he had to let his other guitar player go, _ _ _ and he looks upset,
so I'm not going to go.
_ _ _ _ He came up to me and was like, you got a light?
I was like, sure.
I hear you're having trouble with your guitar player.
He was like, what?
_ What?
How'd you know that?
_ _ [F] Into the ocean, end it all.
Into the ocean, end it all.
Into the ocean, end it all.
Into the ocean, end it all.
[C] Into the ocean, end it all. _
I thought it was just your face. _ _ _ _
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