Chords for James Blunt - Moon Landing [Behind The Album]

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[A] _ _ _ My fourth [Gbm] album, it's called Moon [D] Landing.
You know, it's just a really [A] personal album,
in a way that I haven't recorded for a little while, actually.
There are times [D] when I don't know where I [A] stand
_ I [Dbm] recorded my first [Gbm] album, the first series of this,
which [D] was going off to [A] Los Angeles to meet Tom Rothwell, the producer.
[E] It's this kind of [A] raw, naked album where he and I
[D] sat in a room again for [A] a long, long time
and made something that's really, [Gb] really special.
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lied [D] and mean for a [A] while
_ _ [E] It's been three years since my [A] last album
and I promise I haven't been slacking through that time.
Shine even on [Ab] a rainy [Gbm] day
And I can [D] find [A] your haloes
It is an album [Gbm] that is kind of [D] reflective
about great achievements [A] of the past,
the difficulties of achieving those [Gbm] again,
and that's what the Moon Landing [D] is really all about.
There's a [A] romanticism to that, nostalgia, and a delicacy [Ab] to it.
Because [Gbm] you and [D] I won't [A] part until
We die, [Abm] you [Gbm] should know
[D] _ We [E] see eye to eye
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Heart to heart
Heart [D] to heart, I wrote [A] out in Venice Beach
with some really [Gbm] fun guys who I've been working out there [D] with.
And [A] yeah, it seems that both my first singles have got heart in it.
I don't know why that [C] is, I've obviously run out of words. _
Days like these lead [Am] to
_ Nights like this lead [F] to _ _
Love like
_ You light the [Am] spark in my bonfire
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[C] Our first single off this album is called Bonfire Heart
and [Am] I wrote it with Ryan Tedder. _
We had quite a journey recording the song actually.
[C] I'd written with him before and we're mates.
So he said, why don't you come out and visit me?
On his tour bus, [G] we were in Luxembourg, I think,
in a venue that [C] I'd played at as well,
so that was really fun to be wandering around his audience
and heckling him while [Am] he was playing.
_ Nights like this
[G] We wrote Bonfire Heart [F] in a small hotel room
and then produced it in places like Boston, [Am] Australia
while he was on the road and finishing it [G] off in Denver.
It's been on a [C] journey, but it's a really fun,
kind of simple song in many ways.
It's guitar, piano, lots of voices,
and it really captures the mood.
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One that starts
Starts the spark in our bonfire hearts
Tom, it just doesn't come along on his own.
He brings the most incredible array of instruments,
you know, 3 different types of piano,
[Abm] uprights and grand pianos, old pump organs you'd find in a church,
a mass of acoustic and electric guitars,
an array of amplifiers,
and so it's really like being a child in a toy shop.
[E] I'm sending a postcard
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I don't care who sees what I've [Gb] said
The album, it has a broad spread of songs.
Some are slow and some are [Dbm] fast.
They're quite different from anything [E] I've really done in the past.
No, no, no, [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Gb] no, no, no, no, _ _ [E] no
Are [Gb] we all just [Abm] satellites
Where [B] the love show me at night
[Gb] Satellites was [Abm] a really hard song to record
[B] because I knew it was a really [Abm] special song,
but [Gb] just didn't quite know how to [Abm] portray it.
It's not just a piano [B] song.
I hadn't quite understood how to approach it.
[Gb] And then having done [B] 7 songs, I said,
OK, come on, I've got this special, which [E] I love,
[Gb] don't quite know how to do, and if you give me [B] lots of spare time,
I just need to [E] play every instrument you've got in the [Gb] studio
and see [B] if something works.
And the result is a [E] really fun, upbeat [Gb] song.
Life's just [Abm] a dream
[B] Who the hell knows what [E] it means
Stop the [Gb] world and sing with me
[Abm] Oh, oh, oh, [Db] oh, oh, oh
The excitement really of doing that is really being able to find instruments
that have a great warmth, and there's a real human element to this
because it's [Eb] one person wandering around [Ab] playing real instruments
and you can [Eb] feel _ the emotion in that.
How come _ you don't want to see [Abm] me
_ _ _ _ [Eb] How come _ you're gonna let me go
Lots of this album I have recorded with Crom Rothrock in Los [Ab] Angeles,
but I shouldn't forget to mention another really special guy
I've been working with is called Martin [Abm] Terafee.
He's recorded Katie Tunstall, Jason Mraz, a whole host of other people,
and he's based in London.
And so to start out with, I recorded four songs with him.
Baby blue [Eb] on blue
I _ want you [Gm] more
Than I ever [C] _ _ _ [F]
wanted _ _ _ _
Than I [Fm] ever _ _ needed
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Anyone I _ ever [Eb] knew
He records in the room, the [Ab] control desk is in the room,
[Eb] all the musicians are in the same room.
So for instance, a song like [Gm] Blue on Blue, as you hear what I'm singing,
[Eb] all the guys playing in a band are [F] around me at the same time,
so it's one [Abm] take, it's one vocal, and it means that when you're [Abm] singing,
you've got to put all the emotion you possibly can and get it right.
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_ _ [Gbm] It's been really [A] fun to step back and, as I say, just [E] write songs
that I feel are more [B] reflective about [Gbm] me rather than what people [A] expect me to be
or what I would like to be even.
We watched you slip [B] away
_ [Gbm] And I feel as if I [A] know you
This one, the [E] exploration really has been as if the 2nd [B] and 3rd albums
didn't exist.
If Back To Bedlam hadn't ever sold [Em] anything,
then it would have been a different journey,
and this is the album really I would have recorded [D] then. _ _
[A] _ _ No [E] goodbyes
You'll [Gbm] always be Miss America
[D]
We watched you [A] fly
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_ I've tried to make [Gb] an album [D] that is really raw,
[A] but really beautiful in its [E] way, that is kind of old school,
that has that sense of nostalgia that we all have [Abm] in us,
and I hope that anyone who listened to it would connect with it and relate to it.
Running [E] through your bones
All [B] my bones
Running through [E] my bones
All [B] my bones
Yeah, [Abm] you set my heart on fire
Yeah, you brought fire [E] to my bones
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