Silent Key Frank Turner
-INTRO-
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In the acoustic version he also occasionally plays the riff like this:
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-VERSE 1-
[D]On the 28th of [A]January [G]1986[Em] Christa Mc[D]Auliffe
Gazed in [A]horror as the O-rings [G]failed,
And she died, and she [Em]died, and she died.
For the [D]next agonising [A]two minutes and [G]forty-five long [Em]seconds
She called [D]out the truth on a b[A]roken radio[G]:
"I'm alive, I'm a[Em]live, I'm alive".
-CHORUS-
[A]It came as some sur[C#]prise to rea[D]lise that
As she lost [G]everything
[A]The world was revealed in a [C#]transmission so[D] real
That she understood [G]everything:
You're still alive.
(INTRO RIFF)
You're still alive.
-VERSE 2-
[D]Four thousand nautical [A]miles as the crow [G]flies away
A [Em]home-made ham radi[D]o in the loft of a [A]Hampshire family [G]home
Came alive, came a[Em]live, came alive.
And so the [D]four year old amateur [A]operator [G]thus became
The [Em]only person to [D]hear Christa's last des[A]perate communi[G]que:
"We're alive, we're a[Em]live, we're alive".
-CHORUS-
[A]It came as some sur[C#]prise to rea[D]lise that
As she lost [G]everything
[A]The world was revealed in a [C#]transmission so[D] real
That she understood [G]everything:
You're still alive.
(PLAY FIRST CHORD FROM INTRO RIFF)
And Christa said:
-OUTRO-
-It was a little tricky to decipher exactly how he plays this part but I reckon these chords work pretty well.
-Please comment if you can figure it out a little better.
[D]"The darkness up abov[Gm]e
[Em7/D]Led me on like u[D]nrequited love,
[Bm]While all the [Bsus4]things I need
Were [A]down here in the [A7]deep blue sea."
At [D]four [Gm]years [Em7/D]old I h[D]eard the truth on my [Bm]radio,
So [Bsus4]now I keep a [A]moment's silence [A7]for my Silent Key.
(END ON INTRO RIFF)
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