Astronaut

 
Capo on 3rd fret
              
 
 
 
  
 
verse 1: 
 
              E                         A 
Now if you're gonna play your games with me 
       A               A/G        E      D 
Like a leaf in the the top of the tree 
    A                                  E           D 
You better watch your step when you're coming back down 
         G                  C 
From the city on out to the sea 
 
verse 2: 
            E                   A 
And if your brothers come after me 
           A         A/G         E      D 
With their horses so wild and so free 
        A                        E        D 
I'll be waiting at the gate in a terrible state 
         G                 C 
With the man who holds the key 
          G               C 
And he'll treat you quite carelessly 
 
Pre-Chorus:  
       A                    E        D 
For he knows my face from a previous place 
       G                    C 
From a country in a foreign land 
         G                 C             G/B 
Throwing dice in a game of chance on the sand 
      A                 E            D 
But I lost my cool, and fate loves a fool 
        G                           C 
Now I'm standing on the edge of the past 
      G         D/F#             Em         D          A    C 
In my spacesuit hoping that this woman will call me at last 
 
 
              E    D           A              G     C        A7 
'Cause I'm an astronaut on the shores of this grand illusion   
        E       D           A             G       C      
And I'm falling down at the sound of this beating heart 
  A7               C 
Yeah, this beating heart 
  A7               D     B7,Em,D/F#, G,A  
Yeah, this beating heart  
 
Bridge:  E,D,A  A,G,E  
 
     E                             D            A 
Your friends all tell you that you gotta make a change 
      A                     G            E 
Gotta make this break in so many kind of ways 
    E                          D            A 
The sky to the trees, from the trees to the earth' 
         A                             G             E 
From the earth to your grave, from the grave to your birth 
 
E                                D              A 
Your heart's been heavy with the silver and the gold  
        A                           G            E 
But the gold ain't yours 'cause his heart's been sold 
       C                D 
For to pay your lover's way 
        G       G/F#  A7 
And the ship it sails today    E 
 
E                   D              A 
Oh my, my now we're rollin' by and by 
       A           G         E 
Got my children to light the way 
E                   D              A 
Oh my, my now we're rollin' by and by 
       A           G         E 
Got my brothers to light the way 
E                   D              A 
Oh my, my now we're rollin' by and by 
       A          G         E 
Got my sisters to light the way 
          C                D 
You gotta pay your lover's way 
        G       G/F#  A7 
And the ship it sails today 
 
verse 3: 
 
             E                          A 
So if you're gonna play your games with me 
       A             A/G    E 
Better use some real trickery 
    A                            E            D 
You better get smart 'cause that lock on your heart 
            G                   C 
It ain't as heavy as it used to be 
     G               C 
In a land without no gravity  
        A                      E       D 
In this windless place, on the edge of space 
          G                           C 
Where the saints and the sinners have passed 
         G                       C 
With the dead satellites and the trash 
      G         D/F#             Em         D/F#       A 
In my spacesuit hoping that this woman will call me at last 
 
              E    D           A              G     C        A7 
'Cause I'm an astronaut on the shores of this grand illusion   
        E       D           A             G       C      
And I'm falling down at the sound of this beating heart 
  A7               C 
Yeah, this beating heart 
  A7               D     B7,Em,D/F#, G,A  
Yeah, this beating heart