Floating Away chords by Mark Knopfler

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Intro: | Em A | Em A | Em A | Em/G A | (x3)


     Em
It's the weight I'm trying
  A        Em
To get inside the frame
      A      Em  A Em/G A
I've been painting a fat man
   Em       A   Em
He's big and fat and heavy
   A  *   B7 F#m7/5- B7 B7
As a man can be

        C      C/G Gadd9/B G/B Bm7/5-
But he's been floating away
        E7 E7 Am
Floating away
      D/F#         Gadd9 G B7
He's been floating away from me


    Em    A       Em
In the mirror my withering skin
    A   Em   A Em/G A Em
Is a thorny pleasure
      A
I stand unflinching
    Em     A  *   B7  Fm7/5- B7 B7
And I mark each crease and sting

   C  C        Gadd9/B
My brush my wooden flail
 G/B     Bm7/5- Bm7/5- Esus4 E7 Am7
My ancient thresher
           F#m7/5-
As unforgiving time
 Am/E    B7  B7(9-)/F# B7 B7
Flays everything


| Em A | Em A | Em A | Em/G A |
| Em A | Em A * | B7 F#m7/5- | B7 |

| C | Gadd9/B G/B | Bm7/5- | E7 |
| Am | D/F# | Gadd9 G | B7 |


      Em
It's the truth I'm trying
  A        Em
To get inside the frame
     A       Em   A Em/G A
Now I'm painting myself naked
    Em       A
But I need a pair of boots
     Em    A   *   B7 F#m7/5- B7 B7
About as heavy as boots can be

      C      C Gadd9/B G/B Bm7/5-
Or I'd be floating away
        E7 E7 Am
Floating away
     D/F#         Gadd9 G G
I'd be floating away from me


C
      D      G/B    C Am D/F#
And every thorn sends thistledown
     G7     G7
Drifting all around
   C      Gadd9/B G/B Bm7/5-
And floating away
        Esus4 E7 Am
Floating away
 D/A         G B7
Floating away from me


| Em A | Em A | Em A | Em/G A | Fade Out