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Topic: Beach, Please (song I wrote )

It was a snow day here today so not much to do but stay inside - so I picked up my Taylor and started playing around. I was thinking about my favorite place - Topsail Beach, North Carolina... and the phrase " Beach, Please"  pop in my head and it made me laugh.  Well as you can tell by the title that I decided I was going to write a humorous song about a boy/girl relation using the title's play on words. smile   However as I got to writing it somehow morphed into a sadder version, but still had that little element of word humor in a sad love relationship.   Let me know what you think
  I'm sure it needs some work yet but here it is....


Beach, Please By Jim Kenyon





Verse 1


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[G] We sat in silence, but our [C]glances were [G] loud,




[Em] crying under an azure [D] sky painted with [C] clouds.




[G] I reached out to hold him, [C] but he pulled a[G]way,


I knew [D] there were words he[C] didn’t know how to [G] say


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So I asked him…


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Pre-Chorus


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Is there [C] someplace that you’d rather [G] go ?


Is there a [C] place that we can put your mind at [G] ease ?


Then he[C] told me exactly where he wanted to [G] go


A [D] place where he used to [C] follow all his [G] dreams


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Chorus


He looked at me and said……


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[Em] Beach, please … because every time I [C] reach for your [G] hand,


[Em] Beach, please...‘cause You slip away just [C] like the shifting [G] sand.


[Em] Beach, please….’cause like the [C] tide, you come and [G] go


[D]Beach, please… ‘cause you leave me drowning in [C]what I’ll never [G] know.


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Verse 2


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[G]He finally said, "Love’s just [C] like the ocean’s [G] breeze,


[Em]It comes and goes, then[D] vanishes into the [D] trees."


[G] He said, some things are just [C] meant to drift a[G]way


And I [D] was searching for the words[C] that could make him [G] stay


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So I asked him…


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Pre-Chorus



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Is there [C] someplace that you’d rather [G] go ?


Is there a [C] place that we can put your mind at [G] ease ?


Then he[C] told me exactly where he wanted to [G] go


A [D] place where he used to [C] follow all his [G] dreams


.


Chorus


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He looked at me and said……


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[Em]Beach, please … because every time I [C] reach for your [G] hand,


[Em]beach, please... ‘cause You slip away just [C] like the shifting [G] sand.


[Em] Beach, please….’cause like the [C] tide, you come and [G] go


[D] Beach, please… ‘cause you leave me drowning in [C] what I’ll never [G] know.


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Verse 3


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[G] He said I was like those ships [C] sailing out on the [G] sea


[Em] That there was no harbor that [D] ever could anchor[C] me


[G] His eyes had a cold stare [C] as he gazed from the [G] shore


And I [D] wondered if we can [D] find that place we were [G] before




So I asked him…


Pre-Chorus


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Is there [C] someplace that you’d rather [G] go ?


Is there a [C] place that we can put your mind at [G] ease ?


Then he[C] told me exactly where he wanted to [G] go


A [D] place where he used to [C] follow all his [G] dreams




Chorus


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He looked at me and said……


[Em]Beach, please … because every time I [C] reach for your [G] hand,




[Em]Beach, please...‘cause You slipaway just [C] like the shifting [G] sand.


[Em]Beach ,Please….’cause like the [C] tide, you come and [G]go


[D]Beach, please… ‘cause you leave me drowning in [C] what I’ll never [G] know.



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