Artist: | Hoodoo Gurus (English) |
User: | Vulcan900ASP |
Duration: | 171 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Default |
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Comment: | - |
1000 Miles Away
By Hoodoo Gurus
Strumming
D-DU-UDU
|D-D--UDU-UDU-UDU|
[DUD--UDU-UDU-UDU]
Chords in parentheses ie. (F#m) are strummed once
[Verse 1]
(A) (D)
Estimated time of arrival nine thirty AM
(A) (D)
Been up before the sun and now I'm tired before I even begin
(E) (F#m) (Bm) (E)
(Now you're flying) I got so much work in front of me
(F#m) (Bm) A
(Really flying) It stretches out far as the eye can see
|D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
I can see
[Verse 2]
|A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
Spent half my life in airports doing crosswords or attempting to sleep
|A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
And when the bar is open then you'll often find I'm warming a seat
E F#m Bm E
(Now you're flying) I never find a place where I can stay
F#m Bm |A (Asus2 A)| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
(Really flying) I'd rather be a thousand miles away
|A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
A thousand miles away
[Interlude]
[A] |D (D6 D) (D6 D)| [A (Asus2 A)] |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
[Verse 3]
|A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
Working for yourself sometimes ain't all that it's cracked up to be
|A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
It can be as lonely at the top as at the bottom of that corporate tree
E F#m Bm E
(Now you're flying) I'm told I'm going places who can say
F#m Bm |A (Asus2 A)|
(Really flying) I might arrive but I'll be gone the very next day
|D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
I must be on my way,
|A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
a thousand miles away
[Instrumental]
A C#m F#m D
A C#m F#m D D
[Verse 4]
|A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
I promise to myself someday I'll take the time and try to make sense
|A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
Out of all those opportunities I've lost I'm trying to sit on the fence
E F#m Bm E
(Now you're flying) Right now I got no time for yesterday
F#m Bm |A|
Yesterday's a thousand miles away,
|D (D6 D) (D6 D)| |A|
a thousand miles away (a thousand miles away)
|D| E
a thousand miles away
F#m Bm E
What was that you were trying to say
(F#m) (Bm) |A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)| |A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
I guess I was a thousand miles away, hey hey hey, hey hey hey, yeah
|A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
Sing it again, a thousand miles away
|A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
Sing it again, a thousand miles away
|A| |D (D6 D) (D6 D)|
Sing it again, a thousand miles away
[Instrumental]
A C#m F#m D
A C#m F#m |D| (A)
Sing it again . . . . .