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(Some help from http://www.blitzentrapper.net/forum/astronaut) Capo 3 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 Prechorus: 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 Chorus: 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 [ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/b/blitzen-trapper/386933.html ] 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 E |