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