• Song:

    On The Air

  • Artist:

    Peter Gabriel

  • Album:

    Peter Gabriel (2)

On The Air


Key: E major, Time: 4/4, Tempo: 141

Intro: 


|E5   /D  /G|    /A  /E|   /F#  /G  /A |

|Bsus4 |A    |E/G#  |E   D5|

|B     |A    |E/G#  |E   D5|


Verse 1: (0:34-)

|B                     |A                   |E/G#        |E   D5|
  Built in the belly of junk by the river my cabin stands
|B                     |A                         |E/G#         |E   D5|
  Made from the trash I dug out 'the heap, with my own fair hands

|E      |G#m/D#                |E7/D         |C#m7                |
   Every night, I'm back at the shack and I'm sure no one is there
|E                |G#m/D#       |E7/D               ||6/4 Am6/C |
   I'm putting the aerial up, so I can go out on the      air

|Cmaj7-5  ||7/4


Chorus: (1:05-)
~~~~~~~
|B     C#m7   B                |
(On    the    air) - on the air 
|E/G#  B7/F#  E                ||4/4
(On    the    air) - on the air 
|A/C#  B    |E/A  |    ||
 On    the   air______


(Intro)  (1:16-)


[Verse 2] (1:20-)

  Every morning I'm out at dawn with the dwarfs and the tramp
  For a silent communion lit from above by the sodium lamps

  Everyone I meet out on the street acts as if I wasn't there
  But they're all going to know who I am 'cos I can go out on the air


(Chorus) (1:51-)


Bridge: (2:02-)
~~~~~~~
|A                     |               |
 Leaving   the   car    down leafy lane 
 Turning out Tarzan for my Jungle Jane

|F#                     |                  |
 anyone at all,    from  Captain Zero and 
 his brand of superhero, standing by a call

|D              |A             |
     Oh it's not easy, no no no 
|D              |A          |Esus4/B     |   ||
 No, no it's not easy making real friends


(Intro) (2:27-)


[Verse 3] (2:46-)

  Don't you give me your steak-reared milkboys, milkboys
  Half alive on empty white noise, white noise

  I got power, I'm proud to be loud; my signal goes out clear,
  I want everybody to know that Mozo is here


(Chorus) (3:16-)


Coda: (3:27-) 
~~~~~
|E/A   |       /B|

|Esus2 |    /D /G|        |     /F# /C#|
|      |    /C /F|        |     /B  /E |
(repeat twice)

      ||Esus2 |   |   |      ||   |   |   |
On the air________      on the air_____

|Esus2 | (repeat to end)
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