Black Nemo

G C D G


[Verse]
G                       C   
Meriden months stuck in Indian 
   G
summers.
    D            G             D 
And Dad's on the line, but I'm 
               G
fine. Here's the phone...
         G
Oh, it's floating away. It's going 
away on the tide.
G                        C       
Crystalized wishes, like kids 
        G
crying for Christmases,
D           G                D  
ticking off lists with their 
           G
pens in their fists
       G
before floating away, and going away
 on the tide.


[Chorus]
                    D
Running away on the back of a beast,
                            C
in a midnight charge down a broken 
beach.
                       Am7     
The little stars, they spin the 
                             G
sharpest shards of light on down
       D
to the mouth of the sea.
                       C
In a morning curled up in a cab on 
the edge of the world,
    Am7                         
the light's a fire of gold lying 
 G
around.


[Verse]
G                            
What, when you heard it - say, 
  C          G
forward or furtive,
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     D                G       
transferred through a person or 
  D        G
mystical blur -
        G
got you going away, got you floating
 away on the tide?
        G                       
Through Bonner Road basements of 
 C           G
Pitfall, of cave-ins,
   D         G            D      
of crackling tapes, cross 
           G
fades... When the song ends
    G
I'm going away, floating away on the
 tide.


[Chorus]
                 D
Finding your way down the bloody 
beach,
                             C
with the burnt-out cars salt-licked 
by the sea,
those slicked-out stars all 
Am7                         
screaming from a distant high 
  G
remove.
       D
In the fizzed-out snow of a cathode 
screen
        C
I saw a broken ghost in an old soap 
scene.
          Am7                 
I let his dead and dreamy eyes 
           G
follow my moves.


[Verse]
    G                 C          
And I had a vision of everything 
G
hidden
    D      G             D       
but always around me. It fought 
      G
me. It found me
      G
while going away, floating away on 
the tide.
G                             C  
Shooting through time with my 
          G
eyes getting glassy
    D              G             
and lined, while I watch seasons 
D         G
rocketing past me.
        G
They're going away - a little more 
every day, all the time.


[Chorus]
     D
On a balcony, at the brilliant sea
          C
where all rivers meet, a voice spoke
 to me and said,
      Am7                          
These things have just got to be. I
            G
 don't know why.


[Otro]

    And I said,
D
    Here's to the freeway flasher!
C
    Here's to the desperate dasher.
G
    Guard him. Keep him from 
crashing,
           D
    on his tear. I know you think 
you miss him.
C
    I know you think you knew him,
G
    but you were passing through 
him.
             D        G      
    Light as air he's leaving. 
  D             G
There... he's gone.