Tom: G Intro: G C7+ G C7+ G Camj7 Em Em7 Verso: G C7+ We sent out the SOS call G C7+ It was a quater past four G In the morning C7+ Em Em7 When the storm broke our second anchor line. G C7+ Four months at sea. G C7+ Four months of calm seas G C7+ Only to be pounded in the shallows Em Em7 Off of the tip of Montauk Point. G C7+ They call them rogues. G C7+ They travel fast and alone, G C7+ One hundred foot faces Em Em7 Of God's good ocean gone wrong G C7+ What they call love is a risk, G C7+ Cause you will always get hit G Out of nowhere C7+ Em Em7 By some wave and end up on your own. Refrão: 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. Verso 2: G C7+ Your tongue is a rudder. G C7+ It steers the whole ship. G C7+ Sends your words past your lips Em Em7 Or keeps them safe behind your teeth. G C7+ But the wrong words will strand you. G C7+ Come off course while you sleep. G C7+ Sweep your boat out to sea Em Em7 Or dashed it to bits on the reef. G C7+ The vessel groans G C7+ The ocean pressures its frame. G C7+ Off the port I see the lighthouse Em Em7 Through the sleet and the rain. G C7+ And I wish for one more day G C7+ To give my love and repay debts. G C7+ But the morning finds our bodies Em Em7 Washed up thirty miles west. Refrão: C G They say that the captain Em Stays fast with the ship Em7 Through still and storm. C G But this ain't the Dakota. Em And the water is cold. Em7 We won't have to fight for long. Final: G This is the end. This story's old But it goes on and on C7+ 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 C7+ 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. G Need you like water in my lungs.