NOTE FOR PLAYERS:
With the next table you can get the perfect sound of The North Star album.
There's two guitars: one plays rhythm chords,the other one plays only once
every chord letting it ring and using vibrato sometimes with a little of
"overdrive" effect.
Chords Used:
E A D G B E
Fmaj7(5+) --- (0) 3 3 2 0 0 (no real chord)
Fmaj7 (0) 3 3 2 1 0
C ------------ X 3 2 0 1 0
C with 9 3 3 5 5 3 3
Am(fr.5) ----- 5 7 7 5 5 5
Am7 5 7 5 5 5 5
Am ----------- X 0 2 2 1 0
F6 1 3 (1) 2 3 1
F7 ----------- 1 3 1 2 4 1
G6 3 5 (3) 4 5 3
G7 ----------- 3 5 3 4 6 3
G(7) 3 5 3 4 3 3 (or use natural G)
Dm ----------- X X 0 2 3 1
Intro arpeggio:
Fmaj7(5+)--Fmaj7-------------------
E------|---13---12---13---12---13----|
B------|----15---15---15---15---15---|
G------|---->14---14---14---14---14->|
D------|-----------------------------|
A------|-----------------------------|
E------|-----------------------------|
Verse 1:
C ----------------------------
Swore I saw my true reflection
Am(fr.5) ---------------------
In the city lights at midnight
C with 9 ------------------------
Fragments of a life led searching
Am(f.5) ------------------
Settle in a mess of colour
C with 9 -------------------------------------
The hills at dawn with your cool dark daughter
Am(f.5) ---------------------------
Gazing down on the glittering water
C with 9 ----------------------------
Got a feeling that your favourite son
Am(f.5) ----------------------
Must've known stone loneliness
F6 -------------------- Am
I see the sea's horizon
F7 ---------------------------------- G6 - G7
Bend and sympathise with the blue sky
Chorus:
-------------- C -----
Sun burst and shatter
---------- G(7) ------------------
Throw your light across the square
Am(f.5) --------------- (Am7)
Be my guide and take me there
F ------------------------------
Back to the one, back to the one
C -------------
Shadows scatter
----- G(7) ------------
Place towers at my feet
Am(f.5) ------------------------- (Am7)
Lead me down through every street
F ------------------------------- Fm --------------
Back to the one, back to the one, back to the one
VERSE 2:
C -----------------------------
Rise and toast the devil in you
Am(fr.5) ----------------------------
Feel him catch his stride with angels
C with 9 ---------------------------
Chatterin' rails and cracklin' wires
Am(f.5) ---------------------------
Coast to coast deliver love and war
C with 9 -------------------
Honey from the bay of plenty
Am(f.5) ---------------------------
Soothes the Northern voice of anger
C with 9 -------------------------------
Crashin' waves 'neath the flash of storm
Am(f.5) ---------------------------
Trash the skies and it must be love
F6 ---------------------- Am
I feel my soul's horizons
F7 ------------------------------- G6 - G7
Stretch in sympathy with her smile
Instrumental Bridge:
Dm -- Am -- F7 -- G6/9
