Silent Key chords by Frank Turner

Chords with lyrics

Silent Key by Frank Turner

I love this song, tragic but so beautiful.

From the new Frank Turner album
Positive Songs for Negative People

Intro: E MajorE BB A augmentedA
    E MajorE BB A augmentedA
    E MajorE BB A augmentedA
    E MajorE BB A minorAm


    E MajorE    BB    A augmentedA
On the 28th of January 1986
     E MajorE        BB           A augmentedA
Christa McAuliffe gazed in horror as the O-rings failed
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And she died, and she died, and she died
    E MajorE       BB        A augmentedA
For the next agonising two minutes and forty five long seconds
      E MajorE         BB   A augmentedA
She called out the truth on a broken radio
A augmentedA
I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive

  BB              E MajorE           A augmentedA
It came as some surprise to realise that as she lost everything
  BB                   E MajorE            A augmentedA
The world was revealing a transmission so real that she understood everything
       E MajorE      BB     A augmentedA
You're still alive

       E MajorE      BB     A augmentedA
You're still alive


   E MajorE         BB      A augmentedA
Four thousand nautical miles as the crow flies away
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A majorA home made ham radio in the loft of a Hampshire family home
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Came alive, came alive, came alive
      E MajorE         BB    A augmentedA               E MajorE
And so the 4 year old amateur operator thus became the only person to hear
        BB        A augmentedA
Christa's last desperate communique
A augmentedA
We're alive, we're alive, we're alive

  BB              E MajorE             A augmentedA
It came as some surprise to realise what he didn't catch everything
  BB                   E MajorE            A augmentedA
The world was revealing a transmission so real that he understood everything
       E MajorE ?....
You're still alive


(E MajorE soft)
And Christa said
  E MajorE           A minorAm
The darkness up above
BB             C# minorC#m
Led me on like unrequited love
       A minorAm
While all the things I need
   BB
Were down here in the deep blue sea


  E MajorE           A minorAm
The darkness up above
BB             C# minorC#m
Led me on like unrequited love
       A minorAm
While all the things I need
   BB
Were down here in the deep blue sea


  E MajorE           A minorAm
The darkness up above
BB             C# minorC#m
Led me on like unrequited love
       A minorAm
While all the things I need
   BB
Were down here in the deep blue sea


  E MajorE A minorAm
At 4 years old
 BB           C# minorC#m
I heard the truth on my radio
  A minorAm                     E MajorE
So now I keep a moments silence for my silent key
     E MajorE      BB       A augmentedA
My silent key
     E MajorE      BB       A augmentedA
My silent key
     E MajorE      BB       A augmentedA
My silent key

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