[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
              D
Until you're parched, 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

[Bridge]
             Em7
Bound at the ankles and wrists
              G     Em7
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

[Chorus]
C
Head east, head north by northeast
Em7                  G
Get my bearing and know
                                      D                    G
That a body floating in a water tower only has one way to go
             C                        G
Float downstream, let me float downstream
               D
Floating downstream...

[Outro]
C G