Navigating The Windward Passage

	  		
Intro: E  C#m A B C#m A   (2x), B  (2x) 


verse 1: 
E         C#m 
  drinking   deathwish 
B             A 
  nights can't save 
    E 
this glasseyed 
C#m 
   slackjaws 
B            A 
  scream from safe 
     E 
homes i've got 
C#m         B 
   it wrong time 
          A 
and again song 
          E 
after song you've 
   C#m 
got   answers 
B 
killing to please 
A 
swooning disasters 


Refrain 1: 
   C#m       B 
so inventory me drop  
   A 
me in your fishbowl 
    C#m      B 
i'm dying to breathe 
             A 
through your tight 
           B 
pigeon hole a dead 
            A 
man in dead dreams  



         B 
when i'm gone you 
      C#m 
won't miss me 
       B 
you're dying to 
     A  E 
fist me out of 
    C#m 
the closet and 
B        A 
into the fire 
E            C#m 
out of these dumb 
       B 
little quips  
        A 
that inspire 
E        B 
outright outrage  
  C#m       A 
enrages you now 
       E 
you're lifeless  
     C#m   B 
and sticky kicking 
     A 
dead cows fuck 
    E    C#m A E C#m A B B 
you sound 



verse 2: 
E 
   one shot 
C#m 
   all wrong  
B 
   one lie 
A 
   all gone 
E 
   cry for  
C#m 
   yourselves 
B 
   i'll die with 
A 
   my own help 
E 
   these words 
C#m 
   are mine and 
     B 
this grave that we 
      A 
share time after 
    E 
time chokes my 
C#m 
   life out while 
B 
you ask yourselves 
         A 
what i'm crying about 


Refrain 2: 
           C#m 
well these tears that 
    B           A 
are falling are wetting 
               C#m 
deaf ears. you cry for 
     B            A 
your protests and say 
               C#m 
i don't care i couldn't 
     B            A 
care less I don't have 
             C#m 
so are you I couldn't 
     B 
care less if you're 
  A 
repulsed through 
           B 
and through a dead 
            A 
man in dead dreams 



         B 
when i'm gone you 
      C#m 
won't miss me 
       B 
you're dying to 
     A  E 
fist me out of 
    C#m 
the closet and 
B        A 
into the fire 
E            C#m 
out of these dumb 
       B 
little quips  
        A 
that inspire 
E        B 
outright outrage  
  C#m       A 
enrages you now 
       E 
you're lifeless  
     C#m   B 
and sticky kicking 
     A 
dead cows fuck 
    E    B C#m A E B C#m A 
you sound 


Interlude: E  C#m A B C#m A  (2x) 


Bridge: Slower beat 

E           B 
  when it's all said 
    A   E 
and done did you 
            B 
really think that 
    A 
you were the only 
one? you were 
C#m    B 
here before you 
          E 
you'll be here 
B           A 
when you're gone 
 A 
another lemming 
B               A 
humming protest song 


Interlude:  B  C#m  B  A  A 


Chorus 3: 
E          C#m 
out of the closet 
    B        A 
and into the fire 
E            C#m 
out of these dumb 
       B 
little quips  
        A 
that inspire 
E        B 
outright outrage  
  C#m       A 
enrages you now 
       E 
you're lifeless  
     C#m   B 
and sticky kicking 
     A 
dead cows fuck 
    E    B C#m A 
you sound 
         E    B C#m A 
fuck you sound 
         E    B C#m A E B C#m A 
fuck you sound 


Outro: E   C#m B A B E