Song About a Star

**CAPO 2** G He cut your strings so that he could float D - lit by lights, lifted by alcohol Am - over acres of loving coast, C D far away from your lonely ghost. G Now he??s cool and all, D floating anchorless. Ports of call: Am where it??s fabulous, after all C D of this watching himself just crawl. Em A C G Think you see him? D He??s not there, Am that??s just light C that??s not yet dead. Em A C G Wait two hours D Am and watch what??ll be there instead. G Was he small and cold, D like a ring you call up from home, Am held so tightly his limbs went numb, C D worn away between your finger and thumb? G Well, now he??s bought and sold. D Cry his call number down the phone, Am he can??t hear you ?? he??s on his float, C D waving down to the folks at home. Em A C G Think you see him? D He??s not there, Am that??s just light C that??s not yet dead. Em A C G Wait two hours D Am and watch what??ll be there instead. Em D C Am As the cameras love all of his faces, G Em D C they hide all the traces of you in his heart. Em G C Am Stand in line to hold forth on his grace, Em Am but you won??t even get a head-start, C D Get a head start GDACD GDACD G As his close-up comes D cascading down from above, Am the eyes of a nation in love C are looking on all of their hopes D held up. G And the words that some D screenwriter counted and chose, Am and then set in their sequence and froze, C unfreeze on his tongue as he speaks D for all of us G but one. D And honey, he??s gone. Am And baby, he??s everyone??s. C D In the dark sky tonight, G cast your eyes D on the dim light Am that he will become. C D You??re like everyone Em A C G Who thinks they see him D He??s not there, Am that??s just light C that??s not yet dead. Em A C G Wait two hours D Am and watch what??ll be there instead.