Bonnie "Prince" Billy – Downstream (Guitar)

Capo 2
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As recorded by Bonnie "Prince" Billy feat. John Anderson (2025 release) [Intro] D [Verse 1]
D                    G                  D
What's in the water? What's in the wind?

                           A
The weather is wilder than it's ever been

    D                          G             D
The ocean's still blue, but it ain't what it seems

                              A            D       A
It's time to remember that we all live downstream
[Verse 2]
D                    G             D
What's gonna happen? What will you think?

                         A
When it's not so easy to get you a drink

    D                      G            D
The water is changing, the well's going dry

                               A            D
It surely might kill us in the sweet by and by
[Chorus]
    G                           A
You sleepwalk for centuries and don't look around

       D                  G            A
At the progress of man, determined and bound

   G                     A
We live in the ruins of another life's dream

        Bm                     G   A      D
Oh, but nobody told us that we all live downstream
[Interlude] A G D A D [Verse 3]
D                        G          D
There's an island adrift out in the sea

                           A
It's being made special by you and by me

D                       G           D
Nothing can live there, nothing can be

                                    A          D
We're learning the hard way that we all live downstream
[Chorus]
    G                           A
You sleepwalk for centuries and don't look around

       D                  G            A
At the progress of man, determined and bound

   G                     A
We live in the ruins of another life's dream

        Bm7                          G   A      D
Oh, and we should have known that we all live downstream
[Outro] D G D A D