Key: C#m
Intro:
C#m E B
C#m E B
Verse 1:
C#m E B
There was nothing I could do to ever fool ya
C#m E B
I've been 'round and 'round this place just trying to find ya
C#m E B
I've been tryna spell it out but nothing's clearer
F#m E B
And you hold my body down
Verse 2:
C#m E B
I guess it's timing but your heart was never sure, my love
C#m E B
About the bigger things that you and I were speaking of
C#m E B
You gave a little hope, my dear, and was it just enough
F#m E B
To lay my body down
Chorus:
E
Holy fire
I've been burning
In your water
I am sinking
C#m F#m
Slo--o--ow
B
And, darling
E
When the Earth, it started moving
I lost the air we were breathing
C#m F#m
Oh, oh, oh
C#m B
I'm slo--o--ow drowning
C#m E B
Verse 3:
Cäm E B
Even now when I look back
I see your shadow
C#m E B
And it follows me around wherever I go
C#m E B
Like a precious little secret only you'd know
F#m E B
To lay my body down
Chorus:
E
Holy fire
I've been burning
In your water
I am sinking
C#m F#m
Slo--o--ow
B
And, darling
E
When the Earth, it started moving
I lost the air we were breathing
C#m F#m
Oh, oh, oh
C#m B
I'm slo--o--ow drowning
C#m E B
Bridge:
C#m B
And I'm moving backwards just looking at you
C#m
And the fire around your feet
C#m B
I know there's a fortune coming for you
C#m
But, baby, it's not me
F#m E B
'Cause when you laid my body down
F#m E B
You wore my body down
Chorus:
E
Holy fire
I've been burning
In your water
I am sinking
C#m F#m
Slo--o--ow
B
And, darling
E
When the Earth, it started moving
I lost the air we were breathing
C#m F#m
Oh, oh, oh
C#m
I´m slo--o--ow
C#m B E
I'm slo--o--ow drowning
