Downside Up Chords by Peter Gabriel

_ _ So this is one of the things that we were doing since the last tour and it was a show for the Millennium called OVO.
_ _ This is essentially a kid's story _ but at one point the world turns upside down and you have to imagine lying on a field of grass and looking up at the sky long enough that you start to see the sky as down, as an ocean below you.
And that is the state _ downside.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [E] _ [G#m] _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [E] _ [G#m] _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ [C#m] _ [G#m] _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ [G#m] _ _ [C#m] _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ [E] And everything that [G#m] I relied [C#m] [B] on disappeared. _
[C#] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ [F#m] [E] Downside up, [C#m] upside down.
[A] _ [B] _ _ _
[A] _ [F#m] Take [E] my weight from [C#m] the ground.
_ [B] _ _ [A] I am [F#m] falling [E]
deep [C#m] in the sky.
[A] _ [E] _ Slipping [A] head to the unknown. _ _ _ _ _
All [E] the strangers look [C#m] like family. _
All the family look [B] so strange.
_ [A]
The only [E] constant I [B] am [C#m] sure of [B] is this exaggerating rate of change.
[A] _ _
[F#m] [E] Downside up, [C#m] upside down.
[A] _ [B] _
_ _ [A] _ [F#m] Take [E] my weight [C#m] off the ground.
[A] _ [E] _ _ [A] I am [F#m] falling [E] deep in [C#m] the sky.
[A] _ [E] _
Slipping [A] head to the unknown.
_ I _ _ _ [E] stand here, watch [C#m] you spin it [A] _ [E] until [C#m] I _ [B] _ _
[A] _ am sent for [G#m] a fatal _ force.
[B] Call me in.
_ _ Call [A] me in.
_ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ [D] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [F#] Call me in. _
[A] Call me in.
Call me in.
[C#] _ [F#] _ _ [D] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ O [E]-V [F#] _ _ [D] [A]-O _ _ O [F#]-V-O _
[F#m] _ _ [Em] OVO [F#] _ _ [D] _
[A] OVO _ _ [E] _ [F#] OVO OVO [F#m] _ _ [B] [E] OVO [F#] _ _ [D] [F#m] OVO OVO _ _ [C#m] [F#] OVO OVO OVO _
[C#m] and over
[A] _ [F#] with _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ us
[F#] _ [D] go _
[A] _ _ _ [Em] _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ [B] [Em] down [F#] _ _ [D] [F#m] over
_ _ _ [C#m] _ [F#] over _ _
[F#m] _ _ [B] over [F#] _ _ [D] [F#m] over
_ _ [E] over [F#] over _ _ _
_ over
_ [A] _ _ [F#m] _ [E] _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _
[A] _ [F#m] _ _ [E] _ _ [D#m] _ [C#m] _ _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ [F#m] _ [E] _
_ [B] _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] _ _ over
_ _ right [F#m] [E] side up
left [C#m] side down
_ [B] _
_ _ [A] Take my [E] word of [C#m] the bruise _ [B] I [A] am bald [E] deep in [C#m] the [A] sky
_ [E] _
[A] Sleeping in a good light now _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ _