David Bowie - Quicksand
Album: Hunky Dory (1971)
Transcribed by Jon Malmin (jogusmal@hotmail.com)
Tuning: Standard E
This is how I play Quicksand... This is very close to the album version.
The dim-chords are shown at the bottom of the page, if you need them.
Intro: G Am7 x4
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
I'm frightened by the total goal, drawing to the ragged hole
Eb F
e|---3-----3-----3-----3-----3----|---5-----5-----5-----5-----5------|
B|-----4-----4-----4-----4-----4--|-----6-----6-----6-----6-----6----|
G|-3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3|-5-----5-----5-----5-----5-----5--|
D|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
G Em C
And I ain't got the power anymore
C G Am7 Asus2 A
No I ain't got the power anymore
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D
I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes
A
I'm living proof of Churchill's lies, I'm destiny
D
I'm torn between the light and dark
A
Where others see their targets, divine symmetry
F
Should I kiss the viper's fang
G
Or herald loud the death of Man
A F#m D
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
D A
And I ain't got the power anymore
CHORUS:
A E F#m
Don't believe in yourself
D#dim E
Don't deceive with belief
Edim Bm
Knowledge comes with death's release
D#dim A
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah
F#m E
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaaha
D
I'm not a prophet or a stone age 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 on the next Bardo
A F#m E
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
E A
And I ain't got the power anymore
(Chorus x2, then the song ends)
D#dim: Edim:
x-x-1-2-1-2 x-x-2-3-2-3
