Chords for WILL VARLEY - 'THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH' WXPN World Cafe in Philadelphia - live

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_ _ A new star is born in the stillness of morning. _
The edge of the universe, time is expanding, [D] it's endless, it's love, _ infinitely small.
_ [A] Lights in the darkness, no reason at all.
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_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ Billions of years away, half moons are sharing [D] glasses of wine with asteroids passing.
[A] The galaxy wakes on the wrong side of space.
[G]
Gravity laughs [A] in reality's [D] face.
[Bm] But it's somewhere there, like dust in the air.
[D] The sphere is drifting too slowly to [G] bear and clinging on tightly to rocks and [G] stone.
[A] The [D] parasite's calling this dust [A] its home.
_ _ [Bm] Another second [D]
of another day. _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] In this [D] corner of space, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] in this [A] dark, _ [D] cold universe.
_ [G] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ This world [D] that I'm living in [F#] makes no sense to [G] me. _ _ _ _
_ _ I'm still dreaming _
[Em] _ [Gm] about the _ man [Em] who fell [G] to [D] earth. _
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_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [Bm] The baby is born in the stillness of morning.
[D] Ten minutes past five, they declared him alive.
[A] His tears rolled down his mother's cheeks, and the [D] midwife breathed a sigh of relief.
[Bm] Why, just down the road, the last of the drunks [A]
make [D] their way home to pass out on the bus.
[G] While the first of the businessmen is stretched in ties, [A] getting ready [F#m] to sell [A] some more of their lives.
[Bm] In the newspaper offices, lights are still on, [D] they've been up all night.
They wait for things to go wrong, and nobody's soaring.
[A] As the wheels came down, [G] the young man [D] silently fell to the ground.
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_ _ [B] And the houses, [A] they're turning [D] on lights. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] Putting [D] blindfolds over their eyes, _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] getting ready _ [D] for another day at [G] work.
_ _ _ [D] This illusion that I am living in _ [F#] makes no sense [G] to me.
_ _ _ _ I'm still dreaming _ [Em] _ [G] about the _ man [Em] who fell [D]
to earth. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Bm] A body is found in the stillness of morning.
[D] A priest in the street calls out a warning.
[A] Somewhere above London, an air hostess stands.
[Bm] The 747 _ [A] is coming into [F#m] land. _ _ _
[A] _ _ [Bm] The farmer has started her work for the day.
_ [D] Somehow she knows that something has changed.
[D] How in the field she dreams of her son.
[A] Back to the day when his journey begun.
An _ [Bm] eagle is searching for food in the spring.
[A] A sperm whale sleeps while a hummingbird [G] sings.
Out in the fields a cold wind blows.
[A] A larva is waiting for news by the phone. _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] Across the world, [A] there's flashes [D] of light. _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] They've been bombing [A] to see all [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ in the [B] end.
_ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ What's [E] your [G] word?
_ _ _ _ _ This simulation [D] that I am living in [F#m] makes no sense [G] to me. _ _ _
_ _ I'm still _ dreaming _ _ about _ the man _ who fell _ to [D] _
_ _ earth.
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_ _ _ I'm _ still [G] _ dreaming _ _ _ about _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[G] the _ [D] man who fell _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Bm] to earth.
Tears travelling across my skin.
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Molecules of water and sodium spin.
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Atoms are shaking so infinitely small. _
[Bm] Just lights in the darkness, [A] no reason at all.
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