Backwater Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][G][D]

[Verse 1]
[D]Backwater
We're sailing at the [G]edges of [D]time
Backwater
We're drifting at [G]the water[D]line
Oh we're [C]floating in the [G]coastal waters
[C]You and me and the [G]porter's daughters
[F#m]Ooh what to do[D] not a [F#m]sausage to do[D]
And [C]the shorter of the
[G]porter's daughters
[C]Dips her hand in the [G]deadly waters
[F#m]Ooh what to do[D] in a tiny ca[F#m] noe
[D]

[Verse 2]
Black water
There were six of us but
[G]now we [D]are five
We're all talking
To keep the conver[G]sation alive
[D]There was a s[C]enator fro[G]m Ecuador
Who [C]talked about a [G]meteor
That [F#m]crashed on a [D]hill in
[F#m]the south of [D]Peru
And was [C]found by a con[G]quistador
Who [C]took it to the [G]emperor
And [F#m]he passed it on [D]to a Tur[F#m]kish gur[D]u

[Verse 3]
His [D]daughter
Was slated for be[G]coming [D]divine
He taught her
He taught her how to split and define
But if you [C]study the lo[G]gistics
[C]And heuristics of the [G]mystics
You will [F#m]find that their m[D]inds
rarely [F#m]move in a line
[D]So it's muc[C]h more realistic[G]
To aban[C]don such bal[G]listics
And [F#m]resign to be [D]trapped on a [F#m]leaf i[D]n[G][D]
[G][D][C][G][C][G]
[F#m][D][F#m][D][C][G][C][G]
[F#m][D][F#m][D]
[G][D]
[G]a v[D]ine

[Outro 1]
[C][G][C][G][F#m]
[D][F#m][D][C][G][C][G]
[F#m][D]
[G][D]
[G][D][C][G][C][G]
[F#m][D][F#m][D][C][G][C][G]
[F#m][D][F#m][D]
[G][D]
[G][D][C][G]
[F#m][D][F#m][D][C][G]