G - 320003
Cadd9 - x32033
Em7 - 022033
A7sus4 - x02033
Chords for Chorus
C - x32010
G - 320003
Em - 022000
A7sus4 - x02030
The timing in the song changes from 3/4 to 4/4 between the 2nd Chorus and the Outro
[Intro]
G Cadd9 G Cadd9 G Cadd9 Em7 A7sus4 (just one down stroke and allow to ring)
[Verse 1]
G Cadd9
We sent out the S.O.S. call
G Cadd9 G
It was a quarter past four in the morning
Cadd9 Em7 A7sus4
When the storm broke our second anchor line
G Cadd9
Four months at sea
G Cadd9
Four months of calm seas
G Cadd9 Em7 A7sus4
To be pounded in the shallows off the tip of Montauk Point
G Cadd9 G Cadd9
They call 'em rogues, they travel fast and alone
G Cadd9 Em7 A7sus4
One hundred foot faces of God's good ocean gone wrong
G Cadd9
What they call love is a risk
G Cadd9
Cause you will always get hit
G Cadd9
Out of nowhere by some wave
Em7 A7sus4
And end up on your own
[Chorus 1]
C G
The hole in the hull defied the crew’s attempts
Em A7sus4
To bail us out
C G
And flooded the engines and radio
Em A7sus4
And half-buried bow
[Bridge]
G Cadd9 G Cadd9 G Cadd9 Em7 A7sus4
[Verse 2]
G Cadd9
Your tongue is a rudder
G Cadd9
It steers the whole ship
G Cadd9
Sends your words past your lips
Em7 A7sus4
Keeps them safe behind your teeth
G Cadd9
But the wrong words will strand you
G Cadd9
Come off course while you sleep
G Cadd9
Sweep your boat out to sea
Em7 A7sus4
Or dashed to bits on the reef
G Cadd9
The vessel groans
G Cadd9
The ocean pressures its frame
G Cadd9
To the port I see the lighthouse
Em7 A7sus4
Through the sleet and the rain
G Cadd9
And I wish for one more day to give my
G Cadd9
Love and repay debts
G Cadd9 Em7 A7sus4
But the morning finds our bodies washed up 30 miles west
[Chorus 2]
C G Em
They say that the captain stays fast with the ship
A7sus4
Through still and storm
C G
But this ain't the Dakota
Em
And the water's cold
A7sus4
Won't have to fight for long
[Otro]
G
(This is the end)
This story's old but it goes on and on
Cadd9
Until we disappear
Calm me and let me taste the salt you breathed
G
While you were underneath
I am the one who haunts your dreams of mountains
Cadd9
Sunk below the sea
I spoke the words but never gave a thought
Em7
To what they all could mean
I know that this is what you want
A funeral keeps both of us apart
Cadd9
You know that you are not alone
G
I need you like water in my lungs
(This is the end)
This story's old but it goes on and on
Cadd9
Until we disappear
Calm me and let me taste the salt you breathed
G
While you were underneath
I am the one who haunts your dreams of mountains
Cadd9
Sunk below the sea
I spoke the words but never gave a thought
Em7
To what they all could mean
I know that this is what you want
A funeral keeps both of us apart
Cadd9
You know that you are not alone
G
I need you like water in my lungs