Key: F major
Intro 1
E
A
E
Verse 1
E
Backwater
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E
We're sailing at the edges of time
Backwater
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E
We're drifting at the waterline
D
A
Oh we're floating in the coastal waters
D
A
You and me and the porter's daughters
G#m
E
G#m
E
Ooh what to do not a sausage to do
D
A
Dips her hand in the deadly waters
G#m
E
G#m
Ooh what to do in a tiny ca noe
E
Verse 2
Black water
There were six of us but
A
E
now we are five
We're all talking
E
D
A
There was a senator from Ecuador
D
A
Who talked about a meteor
G#m
E
That crashed on a hill in
G#m
E
the south of Peru
D
A
And was found by a conquistador
D
A
Who took it to the emperor
G#m
E
G#m
E
And he passed it on to a Turkish guru
Verse 3
A
E
Was slated for becoming divine
He taught her
He taught her how to split and define
D
A
But if you study the logistics
D
A
And heuristics of the mystics
G#m
E
You will find that their minds
E
D
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So it's much more realistic
D
A
To abandon such ballistics
G#m
E
G#m
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A
E
And resign to be trapped on a leaf in
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E
D
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D
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G#m
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G#m
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D
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D
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G#m
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G#m
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A
E
A
E
a vine
Outro 1
D
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D
A
G#m
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G#m
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D
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D
A
G#m
E
A
E
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E
D
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D
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G#m
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G#m
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D
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D
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G#m
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G#m
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A
E
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D
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G#m
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G#m
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D
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