Rocket's Tail
By Kate Bush
From 1989's "The Sensual World"

Gm (355333@1)                Cm7   Eb (x43121@3)                     FThat (133211@1)November night, looking up into the sky,

You said,

Gm (355333@1)                            Cm"Hey, (x3101x@1)wish that was me up there--

Eb (x43121@3)                           F (133211@1)It's the biggest rocket I could find,

Eb (x43121@3)And it's holding the night in its arms

Fsus4 (113311@1)   Csus4 (x33010@1)   
If only for a moment.

F (133211@1)                               Eb (x43121@3)I can't see the look in its eyes,

Cm (x3101x@1)               F (133211@1)But I'm sure it must be laughing."

Gm (355333@1)                  Cm (x3101x@1)        
But it seemed to me

Eb (x43121@3)                     F (133211@1)                
The saddest thing I'd ever seen,

Gm (355333@1)                            Cm2       
And I thought you were crazy,

Ebmaj7 (x43111@3)Fsus2 (xx1341@3)     
Wishing such a thing.

F (133211@1)                   EbI (x43121@3)saw only a stick on fire,

Fsus2 (xx1341@3)    Csus4 (x33010@1)
Alone on its journey

F (133211@1)                                Eb (x43121@3)Home to the quickening ground,

Csus4 (x33010@1)            F (133211@1)With no one there to catch it.

Gm (355333@1)                          CmI (x3101x@1)put on my pointed hat

Eb (x43121@3)               F (133211@1)
And my black and silver suit,

Gm (355333@1)                      Cm (x3101x@1)
And I check my gunpowder pack

Eb (x43121@3)                  Csus4 (x33010@1)     
And I strap the stick on my back.

F (133211@1)                             Eb (x43121@3)     
And, dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge--

Fsus2 (xx1341@3)            Csus4 (x33010@1) 
Nobody seems to see me.

F (133211@1)                                  Eb (x43121@3)Then, with the fuse in my hand,

Cm (x3101x@1)             F (133211@1)And now shooting into the night!



3X:  Cm (x3101x@1)    Bb (x1333x@1) F (133211@1)Eb (x43121@3)     F (133211@1)   Cm (x3101x@1)
      F (133211@1)    
And still as a rocket,

Cm (x3101x@1)                  
I land in the river.

Eb (x43121@3)    Gm (355333@1)                        FWas (133211@1)it me said you were crazy?

2X: Cm (x3101x@1)   Bb (x1333x@1)F (133211@1) Gm (355333@1)Cm7         Bb (x1333x@1)       F (133211@1)       Gm (355333@1)   Cm (x3101x@1)   Bb (x1333x@1)   F (133211@1)   GmI (355333@1)put on my cloudiest suit,

Cm7                 Bb (x1333x@1)   F (133211@1)    Gm (355333@1)   Cm7 
Size 5 lightning boots, too.

Bb (x1333x@1)     F (133211@1)       Gm (355333@1)    Cm7     Bb'Cause (x1333x@1)I am a rocket

F (133211@1)       Gm (355333@1)     Cm7      
On fire.

Bb (x1333x@1)       F (133211@1)             Gm (355333@1)    Cm7      BbWith (x1333x@1)my tail on fire, 
 
F (133211@1)            Gm (355333@1)    Cm7     Bb (x1333x@1)         
Tail on fire,

F (133211@1)        GmOn (355333@1)fire.

Cm7                         Bb (x1333x@1)       F (133211@1)     Eb (x43121@3)    CmLook (x3101x@1)at me go, look at look at me