Terminal Star chords by Karine Polwart

C                  G
You're a beautiful trace
            Am
Of time and space
                         F
You're a thing that once shone
C                   G
And you still shine bright
               Am
In the darkest night
                      F
Though you're already gone

C                     G
You have travelled so far
            Am
My terminal star
                F
In your coat so red
C                      G
But I still don't know how
                    Am
I can watch a thing now
                  F
When it's already dead
                  C
When it's already dead

G  Am  F

C                G
Just to reach my eyes
                 Am
You traverse the skies
                      F
For a hundred million years
C             G
I behold your power
                 Am
In this waukrife hour
                    F
Just before it disappears

C                  G
All the stories in stones
                   Am
And in beakers and bones
                    F
All the salt in the sea
C                   G
Are eclipsed by the might
               Am
Of your fading light
                F
You're dying so beautifully
   C
So beautifully

C  G  Am  F
C  G  Am  F

C                  G
You're a beautiful trace
            Am
Of time and space
                         F
You're a thing that once shone
C                   G
And you still shine bright
               Am
In the darkest night
                      F
Though you're already gone
                      C
Though you're already gone

G  Am  F
C  G  Am  F
C  G  Am  F
C  G  Am  F