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