Key: A
Introduction:
A C D
A C D
Its not the money you make
A C D D7
It?s not the promises you always break
A C D D7 A C D
Its not the light of reason that you?ve got turned way down low
A C D
Its not the wife you cheated on
A C D D7
Its not the mistress you chose to lay you?re love upon
A C D A C D
Its certainly not the children that you hardly know
Pre-Chorus
G E7
It?s the fact that you can?t even feel
A C D
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
A C D
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
G
The ship is thinking
E7
Were all gonna be drinking the saltwater
A C D A C D
drinking the saltwater
A C D
Its not the wars you make
A C D D7
Its not the peace you fake
A C D A C D
It?s not the eye you close at the back you always see the turn
A C D
Hey it ain?t the crime
A C D
It ain?t the getaway, get away, getaway
A C D D7 A C D
It?s not the number of bridges that you violently burn
Pre-Chorus
G E7
It?s the fact that you can?t even feel
A C D
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
A C D
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
G
The ship is sinking
E7 A C D
Were all gonna be drinking the saltwater
A C D
drinking the saltwater
Bridge
A C D D7
It?s not the government
A C D
It?s not the evil we represent
A C D D7 A C D
It?s not the way we shake our heads and say ?What more can we do??
A C D
It?s not the hope we killed
A C D D7
It ain?t the holes we filled
A C D A C D
It certainly ain?t the trees or the leaves that pretty soon we are gonna have to stick on with glue
Pre-Chorus
G E7
It?s the fact that we can?t even feel
A C D
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
A C D
The ship is sinking, oh yeah
G
The ship is thinking
E7 A C D
Were all gonna be drinking the saltwater
A C D
drinking the saltwater
A C D
drinking the saltwater
A C D
drinking the saltwater
Outro
D CE A
The ship is sinking