Mountain Goats - Water Tower Chords

[Verse 1]
G
Moving lights on an overhead map
c
Have to be headed somewhere
G
There's probably gonna be a building burning in town
D
When you smell smoke in the air
 
[Chorus]
c
Small hopes are seen to still be small ones
EM                      G
When the hour grows late
g                                           D               G
And a body floating in a water tower is bound to take on weight
 
[Verse 2]
G
Somebody comes bearing the standard
     C
Just when you need to see it held high
    G
You never miss your water until you're parched
D
Riding home from the slaughter
 
[Chorus]
 
c                            EM                  G
Oracles are seen emerging    from the northern mists
                                         D                         G
And a body floating in a water tower is bound at the ankles and wrists
                 C
Bound at the ankles and wrists
 
[Bridge]
 
C                     G
Marks in the skin
     C
From where the ropes have been
                D
Digging right in
 
 
[Verse 3]
G
Men of legend built the cities of the prairie
c
To rise from the horizon at night
G
Feel something bigger than me
D
When I see them trapped in the headlight
 
C
Head east, head north by northeast
EM                   G
Get my bearing and know
                                      D                    G
That a body floating in a water tower only has one way to go
G                 c                     G
Float downstream, let me float downstream