Silent Key

Intro Intro Acoustic Electric e|---------------------------| e|---------------------------| B|----------------------2-2--| B|---------------------------| G|--9---11--13--4---4---2-2--| G|--9--11-13-4--5--6-4 6 4 6-| D|--x---x---x---x---2---2-2--| D|--x--x--x--x--x--x---------| A|--7---9---11--2---0---0-0--| A|--7--9--11-2--3--4---------| E|--0---0---0---0---0--------| E|---------------------------| Verse E5 B5 A5 A5/F# E5 On the 28th of January 1986 Christa McAuliffe B5 Gazed in horror as the O-rings failed, A5 A5/F# And she died, and she died, and she died. E5 B5 A5 A5/F# For the next agonizing two minutes and forty-five long seconds E5 B5 She called out the truth on a broken radio: A5 A5/F# "I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive" Chorus B5 B5/A E It came as some surprise to realize that A As she lost everything B5 B5/A E The world was revealed in a transmission so real A That she understood everything: You're still alive. (Intro Riff) You're still alive. (Intro Riff) Verse E5 B5 A5 Four thousand nautical miles as the crow flies away A5/F# E5 B5 A home-made ham radio in the loft of a Hampshire family home A5 A5/F# Came alive, came alive, came alive. E5 B5 A5 And so the four year old amateur operator thus became A5/F# E5 B5 The only person to hear Christa's last desperate communique: A5 A5/F# "We're alive, we're alive, we're alive" Chorus B5 B5/A E It came as some surprise to realize A That he didn't catch anything The world was revealed in a transmission so real A That he understood everything: You're still alive. Break And Christa said: Acoustic EADECCBBEEBECCBB5A4 e|------5---5------|--4--------------||--0---0---0---0--|--0---0---0---0--| B|------5---7------|--5---0---4---4--||--0---0---0---0--|--0---0---0---0--| G|--1---5---5---1--|--6---0---4---4--||--1---4---4---1--|--6---5---4---4--| D|--2---7---7---2--|--6---2---4---4--||--2---2---4---2--|--6---5---4---4--| A|--2-------6---2--|--4---3---2---0--||--2---4---0---2--|--4---3---2---0--| E|--0-------0---0--|-----------------||--0---0---x---0--|-----------------| Electric Arpeggio e|------------------|-----------------| B|--9---10---7---9--|--5---5---4---4--| G|--9---9----8---9--|--6---2---4---2--| D|--9---10---7---9--|--6---5---4---4--| A|------------------|-----------------| E|------------------|-----------------| E Am The darkness up above D7/A# E C#m Led me on like unrequited love, C5 While all the things I need B B/A Were down here in the deep blue sea D E6/3 B5/A E C#m7 At four years old I heard the truth on my radio, C7 Bsus4 B5/A So now I keep a moment's silence for my Silent Key. My silent key x 3 (Intro riff)