| D | Bb | F | |
| S | omebody's c | ryin' to be h | eard |
| D | Bb | F | D/A | |
| And there's a | lso s | omeone who hears e | very | word |
| Verse 1: |
| Am | D | Am | D | |
| S | ail across the o | cean with your b | ack against the w | ind |
| Gm | C | Gm | C | |
| L | istening to n | othing save the c | alling of a b | ird |
| Am | D | Am | D | |
| And w | hen the rain beg | ins to fall, d | on't you start to cu | rse |
| Gm | C | Gm | C | |
| It | may be just the tea | rs of someone t | hat you never he | ard |
| (repeat chorus) |
| Verse 2: |
| Reflected in the water is a face that you don't know |
| And isn't it surprising when you find out it's your own? |
| And so you try to find out whether it is friend or foe |
| And what it wants to know, and what it wants to know |
| (repeat chorus) |
| Verse 3: |
| Well, you're wrapped up in your little world and no one can get in |
| You sit and think of everything, then you wonder where you've been |
| You put the blame on someone that you've hardly ever known |
| And then you realize too late the blame was all your own |
| (repeat chorus) |
| (repeat verse 1, call-and-response): |
| Sail across the ocean with your back against the wind |
| (sail across the ocean with your back against the wind) |
| Listening to nothing save the calling of a bird |
| (listening to nothing save the calling of a bird) |
| And when the rain begins to fall, don't you start to curse |
| (and when the rain begins to fall don't you start |
| to curse) |
| It may be just the tears of someone that you never heard |
| (it may be just the tears of someone that you |
| never heard) |
| (repeat chorus) |
| Coda: |
| (long jam on D to end) |
| -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers |