Elvis Costello – Satellite (Guitar)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: [email protected] (Mark J. Schnitzius) from Spike tabbed by ah-HA! Pronoun trouble <[email protected]> [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]