TAINTED OBLIGATIONS"  As performed by the Community Trolls  



Chords by:  Chris Bray  cbray@comp.uark.edu  



This song has Michael Stipe singing lead vocals, and can be found on a number

of R.E.M. bootlegs, including "Those Were the Days", "Life's Rich Pageant

and More".  I'm also pretty sure that Matthew Sweet is singing backing vocals.  





D                          G             D  

I saw the shoals at night, with the moon above.

                          A7sus4  

I felt an obligation, and heard your voice again.

D                               G  

If you were here once, you were here a hundred times.

D                            A7sus4  

If I reached out tonight, I found I couldn't fight it.

B                A                             B

If you were here once, you were here a hundred times.

        A

Ohhhhhh





D                         G                  D

Best as a wishing star, I saw you better far away,

                           A7sus4

and I felt obligation, and heard your voice again.

D                       G                D

Hear the rush of water, passing over the shoals.

                             A7sus4

Hear my heartbeat rather, if I reached out tonight.

B              A                        B

If I reach out tonight and find I can't fight it,

                A

and look to the stars, and wander towards a



D                       G                     D

heartfelt obligation, a place that you called home

                     A7sus4

and heard your voice again, but it's too late.

D                                 G

You left long ago, and now you're probably dead and gone,

    D                      A7sus4                     B           A

and I'm left here with the water and the shoals and a tainted obligation.

B       A

Ohhhhhh





D  G  D  A7sus4

D  G  D  A7sus4





B           A

Tainted obligations

B           A

Tainted obligations



B       A

Ohhhhhh

B       A

Ohhhhhh



continue to end