Great Leap Forward Chords by Simple Minds

[E] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I'm a man of my word.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I'm a man of my word.
_ _ [E] _ I swung up like a bull,
[B] crash landed on my feet.
[E] The sun shot like a laser
[B] through my brain.
_ [Em] Many a death had
woken [B] up and put a curse on me.
[E] By me that
I've become a [B] bad guy.
_ _ _ [E] Real fruition,
cross [B] nation,
poverty of [E] expectation.
All I could do was [B] move ahead.
_ [G] It's a blue sky, _
[F#m] it's a white [Em] cloud,
[Bm] it's a pain. _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] Blue sky, _
[A] white [E] cloud,
[Bm] burning pain. _
_ _ _ [Em] I shot back to the mirror,
[B] there was nothing left to see.
[Em] But a phantom
would talk me [B] deep inside.
_ [E] I could feel the dust of inches,
[B] they were blowing past me.
[E] But I knew that I was
gonna [B] get it [F#m] right.
[G] It's a blue sky,
[F#m] it's a white [E] cloud,
[Bm] it's a pain. _ _
_ _ _ [G] It's a blue sky, _
[F#m] white [E] cloud,
burning [Bm] pain. _ _
[B] _ _ _ [Em] Everybody
[A] that [B] great lean forward,
_ [Em] everybody
[A] knows the mystery [B] that's at hand.
[Em] You've been
praying [A] all your sweet [B] days for this.
[Em] Don't you know
[A] there's a [B] whole different plan?
_ _ [Em] [A] And
I hear the madman [B] calling.
_ [Em] He talks [A] about some dark
and [B] tender thing.
_ [Em] I've been waiting [A] all my
life [B] time for this
coming [Em] to go.
[A] [B] Phantom of the way.
_ _ Touching
next to you, one kiss
for heaven's view.
[E] I need to play so
I can [B] feel _ alive.
[E] Can't tell my
little brother, [B] no requiem for me.
[E] Knew that I was born to [B] make this plan.
_ _ [E] _ Inspiration across the [B] nation,
poverty of expectation.
All I gotta do
was move ahead.
_ [G] It's a blue sky, _
[A] it's a white [E] cloud,
[Bm] it's a pain.
It's _ _ _ _ [G] a blue sky, _
[D] white [Bm] cloud,
blue pain. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] [A] Everybody
that great [B] lean forward,
_ _ [Em] everybody
[A] knows the mystery
[B] that's at hand.
[Em] You've been praying [A] all your
sweet [B] days for this
coming.
[Em] You know
[A] there's a whole [B] different plan.
_ _ [Em] [A] And
I hear the madman
[B] call my name.
[Em] Every woman, [A] every
child, [B] every man.
_ [Em] You've been waiting
[A] all your life [B] time for
this coming.
[G] You know
[A] that they're coming [G] back again.
[A] _ [G] You know that [A] they're coming [G] back again.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [Em] _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] Yes.
[A] White _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ cloud,
[E] blue pain.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] White cloud,
[E] blue pain.
_ _ [B] _ _ _
[E] Everybody
that _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ great lean forward,
everybody knows [B] the mystery
that's _
[E] _ at hand.
[B] _ White cloud,
[E] blue pain.
_ _ _ [B] _
[E] Everybody
that [B] great lean forward, _ _
[E] everybody
knows [B] _ the mystery
that's at hand.
Everybody
[E] that _ [B] _ great lean forward,
knows the mystery
[E] that's at hand.
[B] _ _ _ _
[E] Everybody
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] that great [B] lean forward, _
[E] knows the mystery
[B] _ that's at hand. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _