Fan Transcriptions

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Guitar Tablature for Waterfront

Waterfront - David Sylvian  

This song is not in concert pitch. One assumes some 
messing about with the tape speeds has occured.

Chords

Cm         -x35543
D#         -x68886
A#         -688766
Gm         -355333
F          -133211
Gm7        -3x333x
Gm7-5add11 -3x331x
Fsus2      -133011
Dm         -x57765
Fm         -122111
A#m        -688666
G#         -466544
F#         -244322
F7sus4     -131311 
F7         -131211
C#         -x46664
B          -x24442


@ Waterfront

Cm  D#  A#  Gm  F  D#


Cm          D#         A#     Gm    
     On the banks of a sunset beach
         F            D# 
Messages scratched in sand
Cm           D#      A#           Gm
   Beneath a roaming home of stars
           F         D#
Young boys try their hand
Cm           D#    A#      Gm
   A spanish harbouring of sorts
       F          D#
In Catalonian bars
Cm           D#            A#      Gm
   They were pulled from a sinking ship
    F             D#
And saved for last



Gm7 Gm7-5add11 Gm7    F    Fsus2 F   Gm7
               On the waterfront the rain
   F             Gm7  Gm7-5add11 Gm7
Is pouring in my heart
         F        Fsus2  F  Gm7
Here the memories come   in waves
              F                 D#
Raking in the lost and found of years
               Dm
And though I'd like to laugh
Fm            D#  
   At all the things that led me on
A#m             G#             F#    F7sus4 F7 
    Somehow the stigma still remains


Watch the train steam full ahead
As it takes the bend
Empty carriages lose their tracks
And tumble to their end
So the world shrinks drop by drop
As the wine goes to your head
Swollen angels point and laugh
"This time your god is dead"


On the waterfront the rain
Is pouring in my heart
Here the memories come in waves
Raking in the lost and found of years
And though I'd like to laugh
At all the things that led me on
Somehow the stigma still remains

D#      C#                      B
     Is our love strong enough?