Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello - Satellite guitar tab

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]

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