[Verse]
Am
You crept out of your bedroom while your sister was asleep
Am/G
Stared into the darkness on a bus ride to the sea
Em E Am
Turned the music in your headphones up
Am/F# Am/F
Till the voices in your head disappeared
[Verse]
Am
Do you still fear that half the battles that you’ve fought in life are lost
Am/G
And you can’t live in the moment cos you’re frightened of the cost
Em E Am
Of living your life like a pop-song
Am/F# Am/F E
Now the colour from the picture’s run to the floor
[Chorus]
F C
Do you know the way to Santa Maria?
F C G
Someone told me south but there’s nothing out here
Em E Am
It’s just fishing boats and bad ideas
Am/F# Am/F E
And they drift about like tumbleweeds.
[Verse]
Am
It’s a world of flowers and thorns, light and shadow, love and scorn
Am/G
It depends more on who you are than where it is your born
Em E Am
But your high-rise out in Fiddlers Green
Am/F# Am/F
Wasn’t enough to hang on to that dream
[Verse]
Am
Of desert sands and foreign lands, highwaymen and thieves
Am/G
Centuries old pirate gold buried out at sea
Em E Am
And you told me that you’d gone to find it
Am/F# Am/F E
Off the coast of Barbary
[Chorus]
F C
Do you know the way to Santa Maria?
F C G
Someone told me south but there’s nothing out here
Em E Am
It’s just fishing boats and bad ideas
Am/F# Am/F E
And they drift about like tumbleweeds.
