Chords for Laura Branigan at VH1 "Where Are They Now?" - October 4, 2002

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_ _ She crashed the dance scene in 1982 thanks to someone named Gloria
[E] _ [A] [E] But _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ the name on her birth certificate reads Laura Laura Branigan [E] is Gloria was a girl [D] all the girls who?
Got caught up in the fast lane
[A] _ [C] People see it as such an [G] uplifting happy
_ [D] Danceable song and yet the [E] message is very serious
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_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ Renegades career skyrocketed when Gloria [D] rose to number two stayed [A] on the charts for 36 weeks
The single was actually a remake of an Italian song from _ 1979.
[E] It was originally Italian.
It was a love story
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ We rewrote the lyrics and you know thought up a story about girls, and I've seen you know getting caught up in the fast [A] lane
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[A#] _ _ _ _ After Gloria she released Branigan to which scored two more hits including a song co-written by a then unknown Michael Bolton
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Branigan _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [C#] _ released three more [F#] albums and the hits [F] wouldn't stop including 1984 [G#] song of surrender self [A] _ [F#m]-control _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ [F#] By the dawn of the 90s music was changing, but Branigan wasn't her next two releases went [A] unnoticed
_ _ _ [F#] _ So where is Laura Branigan [G#m] now?
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_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [Bm] She's [A] still at it crowd has [B] gotten smaller, but [Dm] Branigan's ready to make it big again
I think I'm readier [A] now than I've ever been you know I've been through it
[E] It was a hard road back after years of personal tragedy [B] my husband was diagnosed with [E] colon cancer
Laura virtually quit the business to take care of her dying husband
Then I had to go through the morning stage
You know [B] you can't get around that and you have to go [E] through the fire in
Early 2000 after nearly 10 years away from the spotlight Branigan was ready to get back into the music [C] business
I started recording again, [Dm] [C] and I was I climbed up [F] on a ladder and I slipped and [C] fell down and my legs [A#] My _ [C] femurs
[Gm] [Dm] After six months of physical therapy Laura is finally [C] good to go with another remake this time
It's the [Gm] ABBA classic the winner [C] takes it all _
_ [F] _ _ Yeah, _ I have a [Dm] new CD
_ This [D] trickling it out for [Gm] sneaking it out
_ I'm gonna budget performances [C] and just start pumping it away
_ _ [G] Gloria _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
you're always [D] on the run [A] now _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ Never look [A] back I have to go forward I'm grown up.
I [D] want to go right [E] away _
_ _ [D] _ [A] Coming _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [N] up