Swimming Upstream Chords by Passenger

[F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [C] _ _ [F] Well, I've been living in a dream that I can't wake up from swimming upstream.
I can't get to the sea
where the fish swim free _
_ Staring at a screen that I don't get much from staring so long.
Can't see the wood from the trees _
Or the birds from the bees
_ _ [Am] And half of the time when it flies right [Bb] by a child who did in the blink of an [F] eye
_ _ _ _ [C] And half of the time when it goes so [Bb] slow sit outside and watch the grass grow
[F] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ Well, [F] I've been running on a treadmill legs like lead will there ever be a needle for this thread I've been [Bb] weaving
_ [F] Since I was born _ _ and the papers read and the government said I should stay in bed stop the virus spread.
I won't [Bb] be
for [F] _ so long _
_ [Am] Some nights I feel okay.
[Bb] I close my eyes and I drift away
[F] _ Some _
_ _ [C] nights I just lay and stare [Bb] at the ceiling like he's gonna go [F] somewhere
_ _ [Am] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ Swimming [F]
upstream
[Am] _ _ _ [Bb] Swimming _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ [Am] upstream
_ _ [Bb] _
_ [C] Oh, _ [Gm] _ I keep swimming but [C] I go no way
[A]
So the same when I [Dm] come on for it _ [Bb] _ and I just can't [C] get _ _ there
_ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Am] _ Swimming [Bb] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [F] upstream
[Am] _ _ _ [Bb] Swimming _ [C] _ _ [F] _ upstream
[Am] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] Swimming [F] _
upstream
[Am] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
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