Chords with lyrics
Peter Gabriel - Steam
Written By Peter Gabriel
from "Us", 1992
Key: E-Flat Minor
Time: 4/4
Tempo: 108
INTRO:
| ||EbM7Ebm7 || (X 8 bars)
VERSE A-1
|EbM7Ebm7 | Ab/Eb |EbM7Ebm7 |
Stand back!
|EbM7Ebm7 Ab/Eb |EbM7Ebm7 | Ab/Eb |
Stand back!
|EbM7Ebm7 | Ab/Eb |
|Absus4Absus4 | AbAb |
What are those dogs doing sniffing at my feet
|Absus4Absus4
They're on to something,
| AbAb |EbM7Ebm7 |
Picking up, picking up this heat
|EbM7Ebm7 Ab/Eb |EbM7Ebm7 | Ab/Eb
This heat
CHORUS 1
||BB |Gb/Bb DbDb |
Give me steam, and how you feel can make it real,
|EbM7Ebm7 |
Real as any thing you've seen
|BB |GbGb Db/Ab |EbM7Ebm7 ||
Get a life_______ with this dreamer's dream
VERSE B-1
|EbM7Ebm7 | |
You know your culture from your trash
You know your plastic from your cash
|EbM7Ebm7 |BbmBbm
When I lose sight of the track
|AbmAbm
You know the way back
|EbM7Ebm7 |
But I know you
VERSE B-2
You know your stripper from your paint
You know your sinner from your saint
Whenever heaven's doors are shut
You get them open but
I know you
CHORUS 2
Give me steam, and how you feel can make it real,
Real as any place you've been
Get a life with the dreamer's dream
VERSE A-2
Stand back,
Said stand back!
Can't you see I've lost control and I'm getting
indiscreet
You're moving in so close 'til I'm
Picking up, picking up this heat
This heat
CHORUS 1
VERSE B-3 & 4
You know your green from your red
You know the quick from the dead
So much better than the rest
You think you've been blessed
But I know you
You know your ladder from your snake
You know the throttle from the brake
You know your straight line from a curve
You've got a lot of nerve
But I know you
CHORUS 2
BRIDGE
||N.C./Db ||
Everybody nosedive
Hold your breath, count to five
Backslap, boobytrap,
Cover it up in bubblewrap,
Room shake, earthquake,
Find a way to stay awake,
It's going to blow, it's going to break
This is more than I can take
||EBm7 | AB/EB
VERSE A-3
Oh yeah,
I need steam
Feel the steam around me
Ah you're turning up the hear
When I start to dream aloud
See you move your hands and feet
Won't you step into this cloud of steam,
This steam
CHORUS 1
CODA
||EbM7Ebm7 | Ab/Eb || (X 12 with these vocal ad lib)
Help me yeah
Ready to steam out the log jam
Stir crazy from the freezer to the foil
Water's bubbling, b...b...b...bubbling like it's
coming to the boil
Give me steam, lady
Give me steam around me now
Coming alive, coming alive
|Eb(no 3rd) ||
Said give me some steam