Man, O Shipwreck
Attalus
From the album, "Into the Sea"
A#m A#m D#m Fm
A#m G# F# D#m Fm
Always searching never finding, growing colder every mile
A#m G# F# Fm A#m
Life a thread that keeps unwinding on this unforgiving isle
F# A#m Fm A#m
Man o vessel lost and stranded, how you’ve lost your innocence
F# A#m G# Fm A#m
Look at yourself, understand it, you’ve been shipwrecked ever since
A#m G# F# D#m Fm
Shadows fall as waters rising, this a cruel calamity
A#m G# F# Fm A#m
Silhouettes on the horizon, shadows of humanity
F# A#m Fm A#m
Man o ship without a captain, who will clean up the debris?
F# A#m G# Fm A#m
Look at yourself – see what happened, Justice saw your muti - ny
F# A#m Fm A#m
Man o vessel lost and stranded, how you’ve lost your innocence
F# A#m G# Fm A#m
Look at yourself, understand it, you’ve been shipwrecked ever since
C# A#m F# G#
But shattered sails still have their glory, beautiful though broken art.
C# A#m F# G#
Scattered on the rocks a story, fragments of an Author’s heart.
A#m A#m/A C# D#
Man o shipwreck on the high seas look at yourself – see what I see.
F#
All the things you could have been.
A#m A#m/A C# D#
Man o shipwreck on the high seas look at yourself – see what I see.
F# A
All the things, all the things you could be again.
C# A#m F# A