Key: F#5

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Intro: F#5 - B5 - F#5 - B5 - F#5 - B5 - Eb5 - Abm-


Verse 1:
                F#5  B5
We sent out the SOS call
         F#5           B5
It was a quarter past four 
       F#5
In the morning
          B5
When the storm broke our 
Eb5           Ab5
second anchor line
F#5               B5
  Four months at sea
     F#5             B5
Four months of calm seas
           F#5
Only to be pounded 
       B5
in the shallows
           Eb5       Ab5
Off of the tip of Montauk Point


Verse 2:
F#5                     B5
  They call them rogues
            F#5        B5
They travel fast and alone
F#5               B5
One hundred foot faces
              Eb5        Ab5
Of God's good ocean gone wrong
              F#5          B5
What they call  love is a risk
               F#5         B5
Cause you will always get hit
       F#5
Out of nowhere 
        B5            Eb5        Ab5
By some wave and end up on your own


Chorus 1:
B5                 F#5
  The hole in the hull defied 
the crews attempts 
Eb5              Ab5
   To bail us out
B5                 F#5
  And flooded the engines and 
     Eb5                  Ab5
radio  And half buried bow


Post Biss: F#5 - B5 - F#5 - B5 - F#5 - B5 - Eb5 - Abm-


Verse 3:
     F#5          B5
Your tongue is a rudder
    F#5              B5
It steers the whole ship
           F#5              B5
Sends your words past your lips
              Eb5              Ab5
Or keeps them safe behind your teeth
        F#5                B5
But the wrong words will strand you
         F#5                B5
Come off course while you sleep
           F#5          B5
Sweep your boat out to sea
                Eb5         Ab5
Or dashed it to bits on the reef


Verse 4:
F#5                 B5
  The vessel groans
          F#5            B5
The ocean pressures its frame
        F#5             B5
Off the port I see the lighthouse
             Eb5          Ab5
Through the sleet and the rain
              F#5         B5
And I wish for  one more day 
           F#5             B5
To give my love and repay debts
        F#5                B5
But the morning finds our bodies
          Eb5          Ab5
Washed up thirty miles west


Chorus 2:
B5                   F#5
  They say that the captain 
                    Eb5
Stays fast with the ship 
                       Ab5
Through still and storm
B5                      F#5
  But this ain't the Dakota
                     Eb5
And the water is cold
                               Ab5
We won't have to fight for long


Outro:
            F#5
This is the end
This story's old
But it goes on and on 
              B5
Until we disappear
Calm me and let me taste
The salt that you breathed
While you were underneath
F#5
  I am the one who 
haunts your dreams
Of mountains sunk 
below the sea
B5
  I spoke the words but never
Gave a thought to what 
they all could mean.
Eb5
   I know that this is what you want
A funeral keeps both of us apart
B5
  You know that you are not alone
Need you like water in my lungs
            F#5
This is the end
This story's old
But it goes on and on 
              B5
Until we disappear
Calm me and let me taste
The salt that you breathed
While you were underneath
F#5
  I am the one who 
haunts your dreams
Of mountains sunk 
below the sea
B5
  I spoke the words but never
Gave a thought to what 
they all could mean.
Eb5
   I know that this is what you want
A funeral keeps both of us apart
B5
  You know that you are not alone
Need you like water in my lungs
            F#(hold)
Thsi is the end