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G

	    G
Moving lights on an overhead map
C
Have to be headed somewhere
	G
There’s probably going to be a building burning in town
D
When you smell smoke in the air
      C
Small hopes are seen to still be small ones
Em		    G
When the hour grows late
G
And a body floating in a water tower
   D		    G
Is bound to take on weight

G
Somebody comes bearing the standard
     C
Just when you need to see it held high
G
You never miss your water
	     D
Until you’re parched, riding home from the slaughter
C
Oracles are seen emerging
Em		  G
From the northern mists
G
And a body floating in a water tower
   D			   G
Is bound at the ankles and wrists

	     Em
Bound at the ankles and wrists
	     G
Marks in the skin
Em	       C			     D
From where the ropes have been digging right in

G
Men of legend built the cities of the prairie
   C
To rise from the horizon at night
G
Feel something bigger than me
D
When I see them trapped in the headlight
     C
Head east, head north by northeast
Em		    G
Get my bearings and know
G
That a body floating in a water tower
D		    G
Only has one way to go

	  C			   G
Float downstream, let me float downstream
	     D		C	G
Floating downstream