• Song:

    The Drowning Man

  • Artist:

    The Cure

Tabbed by: graph_sas

Tuning: normal 
Intro: D5 , E5 , Bb5

Riff 1: [ D5 , E5 , Bb5 ]

    D5                 E5 
She stands twelve feet above the flood
    Bb5
She stares
Alone
Across the water
     D5                  E5
The loneliness grows and slowly 
          Bb5
Fills her frozen body
Sliding downwards

Riff 2: [ G5 , F#5 , Bb5 ]
G5              F#5
One by one her senses die 
    Bb5
The memories fade 
And leave her eyes
       G5                 F#5
Still seeing worlds that never were
     Bb5                          Repeat Riff 1: [ D5 , E5 , Bb5 ] x2
And one by one the bright birds leave her ...
                                 Repeat Riff 2: [ G5 , F#5 , Bb5 ] x 2

D5               E5
Starting at the violent sound
     Bb5
She tries to turn
But final
Noiseless
D5                    E5
Slips and strikes her soft dark head
    Bb5
The water bows
Receives her

     G5                F#5    Bb5
And drowns her at its ease
 G5                F#5    Bb5
Drowns her at its ease

  D5                  E5
I would have left the world all bleeding
Bb5
Could I only help you love
    D5                 E5          Bb5
The fleeting shapes so many years ago

So young and beautiful and brave

G5               F#5
Everything was true
            Bb5
It couldn't be a story
   G5               F#5
I wish it was all true
           Bb5
I wish it couldn't be a story

    D5
The words all left me
E5
Lifeless
Hoping
Bb5
Breathing like the drowning man
    D5    E5
Oh Fushia
You leave me
Bb5                              G5 , F#5 , Bb5
Breathing like the drowning man
Bb5                              G5 , F#5 , Bb5
Breathing like the drowning man
Repeat Riff 1,and 2 two times alternately to the end...
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