#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Alone from Big Country (from the album "Buffalo Skinners" (1993)) ----- ----------- 1) Am C F C The midday sky was grey and purple Am C F C At least it wasn't blue Am C F C I want the sky to be the way G F I am and what I do For I have been a lost and lonely /* chords for these lines are the */ Sailor on your sea /* same as for the first four */ Run aground by trusting signals You were sending me. A) Am C, F C, Am C, F C, Am C, F C, F->G, F->G, G 2) The streets are filled with empty faces Nothing here is new It's just the same in other places I have journeyed to I was the first across the water Last upon the land I walked out of the silver mine My pockets full of sand. B) Alone inside my head /* chords the same as for 1) */ Alone inside my room I feel alone inside my head Alone inside my tiny little world Am, C G, Am, F G, Am, C G, G 3) It's not my life in those old pictures Once you threw away For I was always someone else And always far away Walking in the darkest places Where the mission meets Waiting for the ground to open up Beneath my feet. B) ... A) ... C) G, F, Am, Am /* in C), I strum the bass strings only */ Am Alone, inside my head Am Alone inside my room Am I feel alone inside my head G F Alone inside my world. I'm alone inside my head /* chords as in the first four lines of C) */ Alone inside my room I feel alone inside my head Alone inside my tiny little world. A) ... Chord | E A D G B E ------+------------ Am | X 0 2 2 1 0 C | X 3 2 0 1 0 F | 1 3 3 2 1 1 G | 3 5 5 4 3 3 ------------------------------------- Claus Tappert, ctappert@astro.puc.cl -------------------------------------