Intro
Yeah, that's right.
(One, Two, Three) One (Two, Three) One (Two, Three) One
| E | Amaj7 Aadd9 Cmaj7 | (x3)
| C#m | A7sus2 |
[Verse]
E AM7 Aadd9 CM7
We sent out the SOS call
E AM7 Cadd9
It was a quarter past four
AM7 E
In the morning
AM7 Aadd9 CM7 C#m A7sus2
When the storm broke our second anchor line.
E AM7 Cadd9
Four months at sea.
AM7 E AM7
Four months of calm seas
Aadd9 CM7 E AM7
to be pounded in the shallows
Aadd9 CM7 C#m A7sus2 | % | % |
Off the tip of Montauk Point.
E AM7
They call them rogues.
Aadd9 CM7 E AM7 Aadd9 CM7
They travel fast and alone,
E AM7
One hundred foot faces
Aadd9 CM7 C#m A7sus2
Of God's good ocean gone wrong
E AM7
What they call love is a risk,
Aadd9 CM7 E AM7
'Cause you will always get hit
Aadd9 CM7 E
Out of nowhere
AM7 Aadd9 CM7 C#m A7sus2 | % | % | % |
By some wave and end up on your own.
[Chorus]
A E
The hole in the hull defied the crews attempts
C#m A7sus2 | % |
To bail us out.
A E
But it flooded the engines and radio
C#m A7sus2 | % |
half buried bow.
[Interlude]
| E | Amaj7 Aadd9 Cmaj7 | (x3)
| C#m | A7sus2 | % |
[Verse]
E AM7 Aadd9 CM7
Your tongue is a rudder.
E AM7
It steers the whole ship.
Aadd9 CM7 E AM7 Cadd9
Sends your words past your lips
AM7 C#m A7sus2
Or keeps them safe behind your teeth.
E AM7
But the wrong words will strand you.
Aadd9 CM7 E AM7
Come off course while you sleep.
Aadd9 CM7 E AM7
Sweep your boat out to sea
Aadd9 CM7 C#m A7sus2 | % |
Or dashed to bits on the reef.
E AM7
The vessel groans
Aadd9 CM7 E AM7 Aadd9 CM7
The oc - ean pressures its frame.
E AM7
To the port I see the lighthouse
Aadd9 CM7 C#m A7sus2
Through the sleet and the rain.
E AM7
And I wish for one more day
E AM7 Aadd9 CM7
To give my love and repay debts.
E AM7
But the morning finds our bodies
Aadd9 CM7 C#m A7sus2 | % | % | % |
Washed up thirty miles west.
[Chorus]
A E
They say that the captain
C#m
Stays fast with the ship
A7sus2
Through still and storm.
A E
But this ain't the Dakota.
C#m
And the water is cold.
A7sus2 | % | % | % | % | % | % |
We won't have to fight for long.
[Ending]
This is the end.
E
This story's old
But it goes on and on
AM7
Until we disappear.
Calm me and let me taste
The salt that you breathed
While you were underneath.
E
I am the one who haunts your dreams
Of mountains sunk below the sea.
AM7
I spoke the words but never
Gave a thought to what they all could mean.
C#m
I know that this is what you want.
F# funeral keeps both of us apart.
A7sus2
You know that you are not alone.
Need you like water in my lungs.
E
This story's old
But it goes on and on
AM7
Until we disappear.
Calm me and let me taste
The salt that you breathed
While you were underneath.
E
I am the one who haunts your dreams
Of mountains sunk below the sea.
AM7
I spoke the words but never
Gave a thought to what they all could mean.
C#m
I know that this is what you want.
F# funeral keeps both of us apart.
A7sus2
You know that you are not alone.
Need you like water in my lungs.
E
This is the end.