Quicksand (Cifras)

David Bowie - Quicksand

Album: Hunky Dory (1971)



Transcribed by Jon Malmin ([email protected])

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 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

                                   

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 A7sus2 A

No I ain't got the power anymore



          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





[BRIDGE]



 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        C#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            D

I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought

       D                      A

And I ain't got the power anymore





[BRIDGE]



 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



 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        C#m    E

Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaaha



D#dim:        Edim:

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