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Rapture

Blondie

RockMedium for beginners8 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Em
F
A×
C×
G
Em7
D××
E

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: Em (8x)    F    A   C    G     Em 
 
 
Em 
Toe to toe 
Dancing very close 
Barely breathing 
Almost comatose 
Wall to wall 
People hypnotised 
F               A    C   Em 
And they're stepping lightly 
F    A    C     G  Em 
Hang each night in Rapture 
 
Em    Em7 
 
Em             Em7 (repeat each line)  
Back to back 
Sacroiliac 
Spineless movement 
And a wild attack 
Face to face 
Sadly solitude 
F            A  C    Em 
And it's finger popping 
F           A    C   G       Em 
Twenty-four hour shopping in Rapture 
 
 
 
 
SAX Solo: Em 
 
RAP PART: 
 
Em 
Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's fly 
DJ's spinning I said my, my  
Flash is fast, Flash is cool 
Francois sais pas, Flashe no deux 
And you don't stop, sure shot 
Go out to the parking lot 
And you get in your car and you drive real far 
 
{From here you play one bar of Em then one bar of Em7) 
 
Em                 Em7                     Em         
And you drive all night and then you see a light 
And it comes right down and lands on the ground 
        Em7              Em 
And out comes a man from Mars 
And you try to run but he's got a gun 
        Em7                               Em 
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head 
And then you're in the man from Mars 
        Em7                      Em 
You go out at night, eatin' cars 
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too 
Em7               Em 
Mercuries and Subarus 
                                Em7         
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars 
           Em 
Then, when there's no more cars 
                            Em7                      Em 
You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet 
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek 
Em7 
One to one, man to man 
Em 
Dance toe to toe 
                                Em7 
Don't move too slow, 'cause the man from Mars 
                Em 
Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars 
                    Em7                         Em 
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall 
He's gonna eat 'em all 
            Em7 
Rapture, be pure 
             Em 
Take a tour, through the sewer 
                         Em7 
Don't strain your brain, paint a train 
              Em 
You'll be singin' in the rain 
                      Em7 
I said don't stop, do punk rock 
 
SAX SOLO #2: Em       Em7   X16 
 
Em 
Well now you see what you wanna be 
                Em7        Em 
Just have your party on TV 
                                                    Em7      Em 
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on 
 
Em 
And now he's gone back up to space 
Where he won't have a hassle with the human race 
And you hip-hop, and you don't stop 
Just blast off, sure shot 
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars 
And now he only eats guitars, get up! 
 
 
GUITAR Solo:  Em X10  A   C   D   E X3     A   C   D   G   Em 
 
Em to fade-out 
 
          
 

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Chord set

Em · F · A · C · G · Em7 · D · E

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.