Mary Chapin Carpenter – Satellite (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
        F			 Am
I’m all wires an aluminum, comet dust and nitrogen,

	   Dm	                         Bb
I followed everyone’s command, first 18 years were fine and grand

         F		             Am
No space junk upon this ship, flying high at 36,

        Dm		                 Bb
without flash without conceit, I’ve done all they asked of me
Bb [Chorus 1]
     C    Dm	          Bb                 F
But every journey that begins should have an ending

  C          Dm	             Bb          F
Besides this daily stream of data I keep sending

   C        Dm	       Bb                 F
Beyond the stars where time and space are bending

Dm	C         Bb
           I miss home
  [Verse 2]
        F		 Am
Liftoff August 78, no malfunction to relate,

   Dm	     	                      Bb
30 billion miles I’ve come, all those trips around the sun

       F		                      Am
For my trials with ice and fire, they came to deal(?) that I’d retire

      Dm		             Bb
Arianespace wants me on view, on Independence Avenue
Bb [Chorus 2]
C            Dm            Bb              F
   But the brass  they disapproved of my ambitions

      C         Dm       Bb              F
After all these years of silence I still listen

        C      Dm	Bb              F
Between fever dreams of static and transmissions

Dm	C          Bb
           I miss home
[Instrumental] C Dm Bb F C Dm Bb F C Dm Bb F
Dm	C          Bb
[Verse 3]
         F	                        Am
Wave goodbye to what you know, don’t be sad to see it go,

	     Dm	                         Bb
I passed the moon and earth today, oh so close, so far away

          F		                Am
Thrusters useless fuel used up, contact lost completely fucked,

            Dm		                     Bb
Unless they send someone at last, to try and catch me as I pass,
Bb [Chorus 3]
C             Dm     Bb            F
   While the final coordinates are pending

         C        Dm	     Bb                 F
For the waves and flares and fields I will keep tending

C     Dm	      Bb                 F
every journey that begins should have an ending

C     Dm	      Bb                 F
every journey that begins should have an ending

       C     Dm	            Bb                  F
       every journey that begins should have an ending
(every journney that begins should have an ending)
C     Dm	      Bb                 F
every journey that begins should have an ending
(every journney that begins)
C     Dm	      Bb                 F
every journey
(should have an ending)
Dm	C          Bb
           I miss home