Overboard
Jeff Daniels/Brian Vander Ark
Dm F C Bb
Truth lives next to consequence, and comes and goes like winter winds
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Blowing ‘cross the straits one night, cold as death and real as sin
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And I loved her, and she loved me, bound for what was meant to be
C
But trouble travels silently—
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There’s a girl in Michigan, up in Lake Superior, who’ll never bother us again
C Bb
Makin’ our lives easier
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With alibis so paper-thin, now that she is over me and over you, and overboard.
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Guide me toward that lonely light, it’s your beacon in the night.
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Now row us straight back to that shore, with frozen hands and muscles sore.
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And my back against your back, we glide along the water, black, both knowing there’s no turning back.
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There’s a girl in Michigan, up in Lake Superior, who’ll never bother us again
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Makin’ our lives easier
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With alibis so paper-thin, now that she is out of sight and out of mind and overboard.
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She was never gonna let us go, had a hold on me and a curse on you.
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And as she lay there pale on that shore, with her eyes gone black where they once were blue
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She could see me for the first time.
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There’s a girl in Michigan, who’s overboard—
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Truth moved on from consequence, just when things were making sense.
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Her body washed back onto shore, discovered by a neighbor boy.
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And now she’s in our lives again, the three of us in shadows.
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