David Bowie – Quicksand (Ukulele)

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Album: Hunky Dory (1971) Transcribed by Jon Malmin ([email protected]) This is how I play Quicksand... This is very close to the album version. The dim-chords are shown at the bottom of the page, if you need them. Intro: G Am7 x4
    C
I'm closer to the Golden Dawn

                                     G
Immersed in Crowley's uniform of imagery

     C
I'm living in a silent film

                                        G
Portraying Himmler's sacred realm of dream reality

I'm frightened by the total goal,   drawing to the ragged hole
     Eb                              F
e|---3-----3-----3-----3-----3----|---5-----5-----5-----5-----5------|
B|-----4-----4-----4-----4-----4--|-----6-----6-----6-----6-----6----|
G|-3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3|-5-----5-----5-----5-----5-----5--|
D|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|

       G             Em       C
And I ain't got the power anymore

      C                       G  Am7 Asus2 A
No I ain't got the power anymore

          D
I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes

                                         A
I'm living proof of Churchill's lies, I'm destiny

     D
I'm torn between the light and dark

                                       A
Where others see their targets, divine symmetry

 F
Should I kiss the viper's fang

    G
Or herald loud the death of Man

       A              F#m             D
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought

        D                    A
And I ain't got the power anymore
BRIDGE:
 A       E          F#m
Don't believe in yourself

       D#dim         E
Don't deceive with belief

          Edim                   Bm
Knowledge comes with death's release

     D#dim         A
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah

       F#m         E
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaaha

     D                    
I'm not a prophet or a stone age man

                                                A 
Just a mortal with potential of a superman, I'm living on

      D             
I'm tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien

                                               A
Can't take my eyes from the great salvation of bullshit faith

      F
If I don't explain what you ought to know

         G
You can tell me all about it on the next Bardo

     A                F#m            D
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought

       D                      A
And I ain't got the power anymore
(Bridge x2, then the song ends)
D#dim:        Edim:
x-x-1-2-1-2   x-x-2-3-2-3