The Cure - The Drowning Man: chords

     Dm                  A/C#
She stands twelve feet above the flood
     A#
She stares alone across the water
     Dm                   A/C#
The loneliness grows and slowly
           A#
Fills her frozen body sliding downwards

Gm             D/F#
One by one her senses die
    D#
The memories fade and leave her eyes
       G                 D/F#
Still seeing worlds that never were
     D#                          Dm  A/C# A#
And one by one the bright birds leave...
Dm A/C# A#
her...

Starting at the violent sound
She tries to turn, but final, noiseless
Slips and strikes her soft dark head
The water bows, receives her

And drowns her at its ease
And drowns her at its ease

I would have left the world all bleeding
Could I only help you love?
The fleeting shapes, so many years ago
So young and beautiful and brave

Everything was true
It couldn't be a story
I wish it was all true
I wish it couldn't be a story

The words all left me lifeless
Hoping, breathing like the drowning man
Oh, Fuchsia
You leave me breathing like the drowning man

Dreaming like the drowning man
Breathing like the drowning man
(Breathing like the drowning man)
(Dreaming like the drowning man)