The Great Escape chords by Marillion

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
C majorC
Heading for the great escape
Am6Am6
Heading for the rave
G+G             E minorEm
Heading for the permanent holiday
C majorC
Heading for the winter trip
Am6Am6
Heading for the slide
G+G             G7G7
Heading for the dignified walk away

Verse 2:
C majorC
Heading for the open road
Am6Am6
Goodbye to all that
G+G             E minorEm
Heading for the automatic overload
C majorC
Standing in the open boat
Am6Am6
Standing in the swing
G+G                G7G7
Waiting for the ringing and the bright light
C majorC
Waiting to be recognised
Am6Am6
Quiet applause will do
G+G                 Dsus2Dsus2
They shower you with flowers when they bury you


Verse 3:
AbAb   Bb majorBb
Uh huh ouh
AbAb     Bb majorBb
Oh ouh uh oh
AbAb        Bb majorBb
You're holding on
AbAb          Bb majorBb
And you're holding on...
    E minorEm
And you hold...

Instrumental interlude:
E minorEm - C majorC - A augmentedA - G+G

E minorEm
Just when I thought I'd seen the last of you
C majorC               A augmentedA  G+G
You come here scratchin' at my door
E minorEm
Your pain and anger's in the howling dark
C majorC          A augmentedA  G+G
Of every corridor I walk

Solo:

E minorEm - C majorC - A augmentedA - G+G (Repeat x2)

Verse 4:
E minorEm
So tell me more about the love that you rejected
C majorC           A augmentedA     G+G
Tell me more about the trust you disrespected
E minorEm
I still don't know, why did you hurt the very one
C majorC
Why did you hurt the very one
   A augmentedA        Dsus2Dsus2
That you should have protected?

Instrumental interlude:
DmDm
(2 bars)

Bb majorBb
(2 bars)

DmDm
(2 bars)

Bb majorBb
(2 bars)

G5G5
(2 bars)

Verse 5:
C majorC
Don't ask me why I'm doing this
C majorC
You wouldn't understand
A minorAm
You're asking the wrong questions
A minorAm
You couldn't understand
C majorC
A augmentedA bridge is not a high place
C majorC
The fifty-second floor
A minorAm
Icarus would know
A minorAm
A augmentedA mountain isn't far to fall
FF
When you've fallen
DmDm             G+G
When you've fallen from the moon

Solo 2:
C majorC
(4 Bars)

A minorAm
(4 bars)

C majorC
(4 Bars)

A minorAm
(4 bars)

FF
(2 bars)

DmDm
(2 bars)

G+G
(4 bars)