Backwater Chords by Brian Eno

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Backwater, we're sailing [Dm] at the [F] edges of time.
_ _ Backwater, _ _ _ _ _ we're drifting [Bb] at the [F] waterline.
[Eb] Oh, we're floating [Bb] in the coastal [Eb] waters, you and [Bb] me,
and the porters, [F] porters, ooh, what to do?
Not a sausage to do.
[Eb] At the shore, we're [Bb] off the porters, [Eb] porters,
hips are [Bb] hatched in the deadly [Am] waters, [F] ooh, what to do?
In a tiny canoe. _
_ _ _ _ Blackwater, _ _ there were six of us, but now we are five.
They're all for me. _ _ _
_ To keep the [Bb] [F] conversation alive, there [Eb] was a senator [Bb] from Ecuador
[Eb] who talked [Bb] about a diggy [Am] old and brash [F] on a hill
in the south of Peru.
[Eb] And was found by [Bb] a conquistador [Eb] who took it to [Bb] the emperor,
[Am] and he [F] passed it on [Am] to a [F] Turkish guru. _
_ His daughter _ _ _ _ _ was slated for becoming divine.
_ He taught _ her, _ _ he taught her [Dm] how to [F] script and define.
But [Eb] if you study [Bb] the logistics [Eb] and heuristics [Bb] of rogustics,
[Am] you will find that [F] their minds [Am] rarely [F] move in a line.
[Eb] So it's much more [Bb] realistic [Eb] to append to such [Bb] logistics
and [Am] reside to [F] be trapped [Am] on a [F] leap in the pipe.
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_ Blackwater, _ _ _ _ _ _ we're sailing at [Bb] the [F] edges of time.
_ _ Blackwater, _ _ _ _ _ we're drifting at [Bb] the [F] waterline.
Oh, [Eb] we're floating [Bb] in the coastal [Eb] waters, [Bb] ooh, and the emperors
[Am] thought of, [F] ooh, what to do?
[Am] Not a [F] sausage to do.
And [Eb] the shore on [Bb] the port of Tordes keeps a hand to the deadly [Am] waters,
[F] ooh, what to do [Am] in a [F] tiny canoe? _
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