Marillion – The Great Escape (Guitar)

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When going from "C" to "Am6", you can use the G on the high E-string to get to Am6 chromatically:
          C             C (embellished)           Am6
e|-------------------|------3------------|----2--------------|
B|-1-----------------|-1-----------------|-1-----------------|
G|-------------------|-------------------|----2--------------|
D|-----2-------------|----2--------------|----2--------------|
A|-------3-----------|------3------------|----0--------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
[Verse 1]
C
Heading for the great escape

Am6
Heading for the rave

G                         Em
Heading for the permanent holiday

C
Heading for the winter trip

Am6
Heading for the slide

G                         G7
Heading for the dignified walk away
[Verse 2]
C
Heading for the open road

Am6
Goodbye to all that

G                         Em
Heading for the automatic overload

C
Standing in the open boat

Am6
Standing in the swing

G                               G7
Waiting for the ringing and the bright light

C
Waiting to be recognised

Am6
Quiet applause will do

G                                 Dsus2
They shower you with flowers when they bury you
[Verse 3]
Ab     Bb        
Uh huh ouh

Ab         Bb
Oh ouh uh oh

Ab                Bb
You're holding on

Ab                   Bb
And you're holding on...

        Em
And you hold...
[Instrumental interlude] Em - C - A - G
Em
Just when I thought I'd seen the last of you

C                              A   G
You come here scratchin' at my door

Em
Your pain and anger's in the howling dark

C                   A   G
Of every corridor I walk
[Solo] Em - C - A - G (Repeat x2) [Verse 4]
Em
So tell me more about the love that you rejected

C                      A         G
Tell me more about the trust you disrespected

Em
I still don't know, why did you hurt the very one

C
Why did you hurt the very one

     A               Dsus2
That you should have protected?
[Instrumental interlude]
Dm 
(2 bars)

Bb 
(2 bars)

Dm
(2 bars)

Bb
(2 bars)

Gm 
(2 bars)
[Verse 5]
C
Don't ask me why I'm doing this

C
You wouldn't understand

Am
You're asking the wrong questions

Am
You couldn't understand

C
A bridge is not a high place

C
The fifty-second floor

Am
Icarus would know

Am
A mountain isn't far to fall

F
When you've fallen

Dm                          G
When you've fallen from the moon
[Solo 2]
C 
(4 Bars)

Am 
(4 bars)

C 
(4 Bars)

Am 
(4 bars)

F 
(2 bars)

Dm 
(2 bars)

G 
(4 bars)