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INTRO
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VERSE 1
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We sent out the SOS call
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It was a quater past four
SOL
In the morning
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When the storm broke our second anchor line.
SOL DOadd9
Four months at sea.
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Four months of calm seas
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Only to be pounded in the shallows
MIm7 SI7sus4
Off of the tip of Montauk Point.
VERSE 2
SOL DOadd9
They call them rogues.
SOL DOadd9
They travel fast and alone,
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One hundred foot faces
MIm7 SI7sus4
Of God's good ocean gone wrong
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What they call love is a risk,
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Cause you will always get hit
SOL
Out of nowhere
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By some wave and end up on your own.
CHORUS 1
DO SOL
The hole in the hull defied the crews attempts
MIm7 SI7sus4
To bail us out.
DO SOL
And flooded the engines and radio
MIm7 SI7sus4
And half buried bow.
VERSE 3
SOL DOadd9
Your tongue is a rudder.
SOL DOadd9
It steers the whole ship.
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Sends your words past your lips
MIm7 SI7sus4
Or keeps them safe behind your teeth.
SOL DOadd9
But the wrong words will strand you.
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Come off course while you sleep.
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Sweep your boat out to sea
MIm7 SI7sus4
Or dashed it to bits on the reef.
VERSE 4
SOL DOadd9
The vessel groans
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The ocean pressures its frame.
SOL DOadd9
Off the port I see the lighthouse
MIm7 SI7sus4
Through the sleet and the rain.
SOL DOadd9
And I wish for one more day
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To give my love and repay debts.
SOL DOadd9
But the morning finds our bodies
MIm7 SI7sus4
Washed up thirty miles west.
CHORUS 2
DO SOL
They say that the captain
MIm7
Stays fast with the ship
SI7sus4
Through still and storm.
DO SOL
But this ain't the Dakota.
MIm7
And the water is cold.
SI7sus4
We won't have to fight for long.
ENDING
SOL
This is the end.
This story's old
But it goes on and on
DOadd9
Until we disappear.
Calm me and let me taste
The salt that you breathed
SOL
While you were underneath.
I am the one who haunts your dreams
DOadd9
Of mountains sunk below the sea.
I spoke the words but never
MIm7
Gave a thought to what they all could mean.
I know that this is what you want.
SI7sus4
A funeral keeps both of us apart.
You know that you are not alone.
SOL
Need you like water in my lungs.
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