Satellite tab - elvis costello

From: schnitzi@east.isx.com (Mark J. Schnitzius)

Satellite
from Spike
tabbed by ah-HA! Pronoun trouble 


[intro]  Em  C#m  A  B  

E                   C#m
She looked like she learned to dance


B             A
From a series of still pictures


E             C#m
She's madly excited now


B                       A
She throws her hands up like a tulip

                                                          G#7/B#
B                 G#7/B#       C#m   F#7/A#  B         -----------
She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party     | | 1 1 1 |
                                                       | | | | | 2
                                                       | 3 | | | |
      G#m                   G#7/B#
Where cartoon bubbles burst in the air


    C#m         F#7/A#  B                    A
Champagne rolls off her tongue like a second language

                                                          F#7/A#
       B                    E                          --x--------   
And it should have been her biggest night              | | 1 | | |
                                                       | | | | 2 |
                                                       3 | | 3 | |
    A               F#             B     B7/D#   E
The satellite looks down on her as she begins to cry

                                                          B7/D#
tacet        C#m                    A                  -----------
All over the world at the very same time               | | 1 | | |
                                                       | | | 2 | 2
                                                       | | | | | |
       B           B7/D# E
People sharing the same sorrow

 
       C#m             A
As the satellite looks down


    B               A                 B7
Her darkest hour is somebody's bright tomorrow



E              C#m       B               A
He pulled on a cigarette in the crook of his first finger


E                 C#m           B              A
Felt the static electric charge of her perfect hourglass figure


   B                G#7/B#            C#m     F#7/A#   B
As he undressed her with his eyes her weakness was his talent


    G#m               G#7/B#                  C#m
How could she know as she stepped through the lights


         F#7/A#   B              A
That her dress would become transparent


    B                     E
And with his face pressed to the screen


   A                   F#            B      B7/D#     E
He muttered words he'd never dare to say if she could see him

 
tacet        C#m                    A
All over the world at the very same time


       B           B7/D#         E
People sharing the same cheap sensation


    C#                 A       
The thrill of watching somebody watching


B               A               B7
Those forbidden things we never mention



[chorus]

    E     C#m7      A          B7        E
The satellite looks down right now and forever


     C#m7           A         B7
What it has pulled apart, let no man tether


G#m                 F#                          F#m
His own body to his dream, his dream to someone else


            B    B7
Oh no, oh no



         E                   C#m         B            A
She went back to her pitiful compromise, he'd go back to his family


E                       C#m                 B         A 
But for the matter of a thousand miles that separated them entirely


       B            G#7/B#             C#m     F#7/A# B
In the hot unloving spotlight with the secrets it arouses


G#m                G#7/B#         C#m F#7/A#  B           A
Now they both know what it's like inside a pornographer's trousers


         B               E
And in a funny way it's anonymous


    A             F#             B           B7/D#       E    C#m
The satellite, it blesses us and makes these dreams come true


A            C#m                    A
All over the world at the very same time


             C#m
All over the world


[chorus]

[last 2 chords are  B7 and Dsus2, which is a regular D with the E open]

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The idiosyncratic experimental film artist Harry Smith began collecting one-of-a-kind folk recordings in the 1940's. Shellac was a war material -- supplies had been cut off, and these irreplaceable early recordings were being melted down and lost to the world forever. Smith amassed a huge collection, part of which was eventually released on Folkway Records in 1952 as the now-famous Anthology of American Folk Music. This release seeded the folk revival of the 1960's, and has reverberated through popular music ever since. Old, Weird America tells Harry Smith's story, complete with new performances of some of the folk songs he rescued by contemporary artists, including Beck, Elvis Costello, Lou Reed and Sonic Youth. With a mission to "Make Life Creative," Ovation TV is a multiplatform network focused on entertaining, inspiring and engaging the artist in all of us by offering original and acquired programming focused on art, culture and personal creativity. The network is distributed via cable, satellite and telco, and is complemented with its popular broadband website (www.OvationTV.com).

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