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