Saturn Return
R.E.M.
Reveal (2001)


Chords used:

F#m	(244222)
C#m	(446654)
Bm	(224432)
A	(002220)
F	(133211)


VERSE:

F#m	C#m	      Bm	    A
Easy to poke yourself square in the eye
F#m	  C#m		 Bm        A
Harder to like yourself, harder to try
F#m	    C#m	   Bm		 A
These Elvis poses, postcards and neopryn
F#m	C#m      Bm	A
Roses a dollar a stem
F#m	   C#m	       Bm	 A
Everyone's sleeping or pulling a long haul,
F#m		C#m	     Bm		A
the keys in the cooler, it's 3 A.M.


REFRAIN:
    F#m	      C#m	F#m
and Saturn is beckoning no one
   Bm	      F#m
is off on its own
   Bm	    F
is offering up


VERSE:

F#m	      C#m
Late shift convenience store
Bm	    A
Cut out the lights
F#m	  C#m
Telescope roof towards the
Bm	     A
northwestern sky
F#m	     C#m
You pull the ladder up
Bm	     A
no one's the wiser
F#m	      C#m	 Bm		A
You find your sights and discover


REFRAIN:

     F#m       C#m	F#m
that Saturn is orbiting nothing
   Bm	      F#m
is off on its own
   Bm            F
is breaking from home.

F#m	  C#m		F#m	      C#m
Harder to look yourself square in the eye
F#m	C#m	  Bm
Easy to take off.


VERSE:
F#m	      C#m	    Bm		    A
You found the ladder in the pattern of your wrist
F#m		C#m	      Bm	A
You've seen and you've marked horizons
F#m	   C#m	     Bm		  A
Mother was difficult she made you cry
F#m       C#m     Bm	      A
Cover the mirror, look at the sky
F#m	  C#m	    Bm	       A
You climb into your rocketship triumph
F#m         C#m		  Bm     A
Lift up and hold out your hands.


REFRAIN:

     F#m       C#m	F#m
that Saturn is orbiting nothing
   Bm	      F#m
is off on its own
   Bm            F
is breaking from home.

     F#m       C#m	F#m
that Saturn is orbiting nothing
   Bm	      F#m
is off on its own
   Bm            F
is breaking from home.


VERSE:

F#m    C#m	       Bm	      A
Saturn return when you chase down its moons
F#m	   C#m	      Bm	A
Throw them into a new gravity.
F#m	  C#m		Bm	      A
Harder to look yourself square in the eye
F#m          C#m       Bm      A
Easy to poke yourself, easy as pie
F#m     C#m	  Bm        A
Easy to take off, harder to fly
F#m       C#m       Bm	   A
Harder to wake Galileo.

End