Frank Turner – Silent Key (Guitar)

E5      022xxx
E6/3    042400

[Intro] Acoustic                  [Intro] Electric
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       E5      B5      A5 A5/F#       E5
On the 28th of January 1986 Christa McAuliffe

         B5        
Gazed in horror as the O-rings failed,

A5                         A5/F#
And she died, and she died, and she died.

        E5              B5             A5              A5/F#         
For the next agonizing two minutes and forty-five long seconds 

           E5                 B5        
She called out the truth on a broken radio:

A5                  A5/F#
"I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive"

   B5           B5/A          E
It came as some surprise to realize that

            A
As she lost everything

    B5                      B5/A            E
The world was revealed in a transmission so real

                    A
That she understood everything:

E5                     B5                A5 
Four thousand nautical miles as the crow flies away

  A5/F#             E5                    B5
A home-made ham radio in the loft of a Hampshire family home

A5                      A5/F#
Came alive, came alive, came alive.

           E5                    B5       A5 
And so the four year old amateur operator thus became

    A5/F#          E5                     B5
The only person to hear Christa's last desperate communiqué:

A5                      A5/F#
"We're alive, we're alive, we're alive"

   B5           B5/A          E
It came as some surprise to realize

              A
That he didn’t catch anything

                    A
That he understood everything:

  Acoustic
   E   Am D7/A# E    C#m  C5  B  B/A     E  E63 B5A  E  C#m7 C7 Bsus4 B5A
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  Electric Arpeggio
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    E                 Am
The darkness up above

    D7/A#        E           C#m          
Led me on like unrequited love,

              C5           
While all the things I need

     B                B/A
Were down here in the deep blue sea

   D    E6/3  B5/A  E                     C#m7
At four years old I heard the truth on my radio,

   C7           Bsus4                B5/A
So now I keep a moment's silence for my Silent Key.