Quicksand Uke tab by David Bowie

12 Chords used in the song: G, Am7, C, Eb, F, Em, A, D, F#m, E7, E, Bm7

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Artist: David Bowie

Album: Hunky Dory

Year: 1971

Difficulty:

(Intermediate)

Key: unknownChords

INTRO:  G  Am7  G  Am7  G  Am7  G  Am7


    C
I'm closer to the golden dawn 
                                 G        
Immersed in Crowley's uniform of imagery
    C
I'm living in a silent film
                                       G
Portraying Himmler's sacred realm of dream reality
    Eb 
I'm frightened by the total goal
F
Drawing to the ragged hole
      G             Em        C
And I ain't got the power any more
                             G    Am7   A
no I ain't got the power any more


        D
I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes
                                    A       
Living proof of Churchills lies I'm destiny
    D
I'm torn between the light and dark
                                     A        
Where others see their target divine symmetry
F
Should I kiss the vipers fang
   G
Or herald loud the death of man?
    A              F#m             D
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thoughts
                              A    
And I ain't got the power any more


CHORUS:
A         E7         F#m
Don't believe in yourself
         G         E
Don't deceive with belief
          Em                 Bm7
Knowledge comes with deaths release
   F#m   A
Ah ah ah ah
   F#m   E7 
Ah ah ah ah ah


    D
I'm not a prophet or a stoneage man
                                              A
Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on
    D
I'm tethered to the logic of homo sapien
                                               A
Can't take my eyes from the great salvation of bullshit faith
     F
If I don't explain what you ought to know 
        G
You can tell me all about it in the next bardot
    A              F#m             D
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thoughts
                              A    
And I ain't got the power any more


CHORUS x2:
A         E7         F#m
Don't believe in yourself
          G        E
Don't deceive with belief
          Em                 Bm7
Knowledge comes with deaths release
   F#m   A
Ah ah ah ah
   F#m   E7 
Ah ah ah ah ah

Uke tab by sergiojungle, 16 Jan 2016

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About this song: Quicksand

"Quicksand" is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory; it was recorded on 14 July 1971. This ballad features multi-tracked acoustic guitars and a string arrangement by Mick Ronson. Producer Ken Scott, having recently engineered George Harrison's album All Things Must Pass, attempted to create a similarly powerful acoustic sound with this track. Lyrically the song, like much of Bowie's work at this time, was influenced by Buddhism, occultism, and Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the Overman. Read more on Last.fm.

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