"Shifting Sand"
By Caedmon's Call
Off the album "40 Acres
"Written by Aaron Tate(C) 1999 Cumbee Road Music
(admin. by Music Services)/ASCAP>From Myron Marston
(guitar_melosh@hotmail.com)
Tab corrected by Micah Nance (moonblazer@hotmail.com)


Tune all your strings down a half step
Chords: (leftmost note is low E string)
Chord names are all relative (E is really Eb)
E<022100>   Esus<x79900>  E2   <x79977>
A<067700>   A2  <x02200>  Bsus <x24400>
B<089900>   C#m7<x46600>  G#m11<x66400>
                          F#m11<x44200>


Intro: The little high note is the E2, it doesn't
last long, you just strike it once
Esus  E2  A  B
Esus  E2  A  B

Verse 1: keep playing intro

Sometimes I believe all the lies
So I can do the things I should despise
And everyday I am swayed
By whatever is on my mind

I hear it all depends on my faith
So I'm feeling precarious
The only problem I have with these mysteries
Is they're so mysterious

G#m11
    F#m11                   E
And like a consumer I've been thinking
            A2
If I could just get a bit more
G#m11        F#m11               E
More than my fifteen minutes of faith
         A2
Then I'd be secure

Chorus:
E            A2
My faith is like shifting sand
C#m7     Bsus    A2
Changed by every wave
E            A2
My faith is like shifting sand
    C#m7   Bsus   A2
So I stand on grace

Verse 2:play intro again

I've begged you for some proof
For my Thomas eyes to see
A slithering staff, a leprous hand
And lions resting lazily

  G#m11             F#m11
A glimpse of your back-side glory
         E             A2            G#m11
And this soaked altar going ablaze
        F#m11              E
But you know I've seen so much
        A2
And I explained it away

Chorus

Bridge:
B
Waters rose as my doubts reigned
A
My sand-castle faith it slipped away
B
Found myself standing on your grace
A
It'd been there all the time

Chorus 2x

A2
I stand on grace
E