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Intro
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Verse
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We sent out the SOS call
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It was a quater past four
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In the morning
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When the storm broke our second anchor line.
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Four months at sea.
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Four months of calm seas
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Only to be pounded in the shallows
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Off of the tip of Montauk Point.
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They call them rogues.
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They travel fast and alone,
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One hundred foot faces
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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
G
Out of nowhere
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By some wave and end up on your own.
Chorus
C G
The hole in the hull defied the crews attempts
Em Em7
To bail us out.
C G
And flooded the engines and radio
Em Em7
And half buried bow.
Verse
G Cmaj7
Your tongue is a rudder.
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It steers the whole ship.
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Sends your words past your lips
Em Em7
Or keeps them safe behind your teeth.
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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
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Or dashed it to bits on the reef.
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The vessel groans
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The ocean pressures its frame.
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Off the port I see the lighthouse
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Through the sleet and the rain.
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And I wish for one more day
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To give my love and repay debts.
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But the morning finds our bodies
Em Em7
Washed up thirty miles west.
Chorus
C G
They say that the captain
Em
Stays fast with the ship
Em7
Through still and storm.
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But this ain’t the Dakota.
Em
And the water is cold.
Em7
We won’t have to fight for long.
Ending
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This is the end.
This story’s old
But it goes on and on
Cmaj7
Until we disappear.
Calm me and let me taste
The salt that you breathed
G
While you were underneath.
I am the one who haunts your dreams
Cmaj7
Of mountains sunk below the sea.
I spoke the words but never
Em
Gave a thought to what they all could mean.
I know that this is what you want.
Em7
A funeral keeps both of us apart.
You know that you are not alone.
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Need you like water in my lungs.
