Backwater chords by
Brian Eno
Brian Eno
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Key: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Backwater
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We're sailing at the edges of time
Backwater
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D
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We're drifting at the waterline
C
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Oh we're floating in the coastal waters
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You and me and the porter's daughters
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F#m

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F#m
F#m

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Ooh what to do not a sausage to do
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And the shorter of the
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porter's daughters
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Dips her hand in the deadly waters
F#m
F#m

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F#m
F#m

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Ooh what to do in a tiny ca noe
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Verse 2
Black water
There were six of us but
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now we are five
We're all talking
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To keep the conversation alive
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There was a senator from Ecuador
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Who talked about a meteor
F#m
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That crashed on a hill in
F#m
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the south of Peru
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And was found by a conquistador
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Who took it to the emperor
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F#m
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And he passed it on to a Turkish guru
Verse 3
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His daughter
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Was slated for becoming divine
He taught her
He taught her how to split and define
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But if you study the logistics
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And heuristics of the mystics
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You will find that their minds
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rarely move in a line
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So it's much more realistic
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To abandon such ballistics
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F#m
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And resign to be trapped on a leaf in
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F#m
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Outro 1
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F#m
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F#m
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F#m
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F#m
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