Satellite
Words & Music:
Declan
Patrick Aloysius MacManus (Elvis Costello)
Em C#m
A B
E
C#m
B
A
She looked like she learned to
dance from a series of still pictures.
E
C#m B
A
She's madly excited, now. She throws her hands up like a tulip
B
G#7/B# C#m F#7/A# B
She looks like an illustration
of a cocktail party.
G#m
G#7/B#
Where cartoon bubbles burst in
the air
C#m F#7/A# B
A
Champagne rolls off her tongue
like a second language.
B
E
And it should have been her
biggest night,
A
F#
B
B7/D# E
The satellite looks down on her
as she begins to cry.
[n.c.] C#m
A
B
B7/D# E
All over the world at the very
same time, People sharing the same-- sorrow.
C#m
A
B
A
B7
As the satellite looks down,
her darkest hour is somebody's bright tomorrow.
He pulled on a cigarette in the
crook of his first finger.
Felt the static electric charge
of her perfect hourglass figure.
As he undressed her with his
eyes her weakness was his talent.
How could she know as she
stepped through the lights
That her dress would become
transparent?
And with his face pressed to
the screen
He muttered words he'd never
dare to say if she could see him.
All over the world at the very
same time, people sharing the same cheap sensation.
The thrill of watching somebody
watching those forbidden things we never mention.
CHORUS:
E C#m7 A B7 E
The satellite looks down right
now and forever
C#m7 A
B7
What it has pulled apart, let
no man tether
G#m
F#
F#m
B B7
His own body to his dream, his
dream to someone else. Oh no, oh
no.
She went back to her pitiful
compromise, he'd go back to his family
But for the matter of a thousand
miles that separated them entirely
In the hot unloving spotlight
with the secrets it arouses
Now they both know what it's
like inside a pornographer's trousers
And in a funny way it's
anonymous
The satellite, it blesses us
and makes these dreams come true
All over the world at the very
same time. All over the world...
CHORUS: [end on B7 to Dsus2]
G#7/B# = x 3 1 1 1 2
F#7/A# = 3 x 1 3 2 x
B7/D# = x x 1 2 0 2