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 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 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              #Fm             D
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
        D                    A
And I ain't got the power anymore

BRIDGE:
 A       E          #Fm
Don't believe in yourself
       #Ddim         E
Don't deceive with belief
          Edim                   Bm
Knowledge comes with death's release
     #Ddim         A
Aaah, aaah, aaah, aaah
       #Fm         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                #Fm            D
I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought
       D                      A
And I ain't got the power anymore
(Bridge x2, then the song ends)

#Ddim:        Edim:
x-x-1-2-1-2   x-x-2-3-2-3