Chords for Kris Kristofferson - Shipwrecked in the eighties (Breakthrough, 1989)

_ Thank you.
Thanks for coming here tonight and _ [B] _ [E] _ supporting a good cause.
[Bm] I [F] feel [G] real [B]
grateful to be able to share these songs with you.
They're all from the heart and maybe we [E] can lift each other's spirits tonight right off the ground.
_ It's a real honor to be on the same stage with John Trudell.
He's a [C#] visionary, a man of great courage.
_ _ [D#] He's either the sanest madman or the crinziest sane man, I don't know.
[E] _ _
But I want to do this song for him.
It's called Shipwrecked in the 80s. _
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_ _ _ You fight like the devil to just keep your head [B] above water
_ _ _ _ Chained to whatever you got that you can't [E] throw away
_ _ _ And you're shooting through space on this river of life [B] that you're riding
And _ _ it's swirling and sucking you deeper on down [E] every day
So _ _ [A] you turn to your trusty old partner to [E] share some old feelings
_ _ _ [B] And you find to your shock that your faithful companion [E] is gone so long
And [A] the truth slowly dawns that you're lost and alone [E] in deep water
_ And [B] you don't even know how much longer there [C#m] is to go on
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_ Like _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ an old holy bible you've clung to through so [B] many seasons
Yet _ the rules of survival in words you could [D#] still [E]
understand
[B] _ [E] _ _ And through something wrong you believed in so long you [B] embraced _ _ it
And you're so close to folding the cards that you've [E] folded in your head
_ _ [G#m] But thinking [A] holy Toledo I can't see the light [E] anymore
All _ _ _ [B]
those horizons that I used to guide [E] me are gone
Don't watch me it'll [G#m] just confuse you
And [A] the darkness is driving me farther away [E] from the shore
And it's scary out here
[C#m] [B] Throw me a rhyme or a reason to [C] cry [C#m] anymore
Come on guys!
Let's [B] get it [E] on!
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Thank _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] you! _
[F#m] _ [E] _ _ _ Ninh Ly,