The Mountain Goats – Water Tower (Guitar)

G
Moving lights on an overhead map

C
Have to be headed somewhere

G
There's probably gonna 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                                           D               G
And a body floating in a water tower 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                            Em                  G
Oracles are seen emerging    from the northern mists

                                         D                         G
And a body floating in a water tower is bound at the ankles and wrists

             Em7
Bound at the ankles and wrists

              G     Em7
Marks in the skin

                C
From where the ropes have been

              D
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

Em7                  G
Get my bearing and know

                                      D                    G
That a body floating in a water tower only has one way to go

             C                        G
Float downstream, let me float downstream

               D
Floating downstream...