Elvis Costello - Satellite

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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]