SURFACE OF THE MOON	-	Del Amitri


Intro:
C#m7 - Amaj7      7x 


E                                                      
    Snow in a soulless city
B - A                                                      
       Covers up the tracks in the road
B         C#m7                                                
    As a       wastrel buys her cigarettes
B        Amaj7                                                 
    And       wipes her pretty nose
B           E                          B                      
    Like a      part-time Elvis imi -     tator
       A                                                
These    streets I knew so well
B              C#m7                        B                     
    Have been       pasted beyond recog -     nition
        Amaj7                                               
With a      temporary smell


B            G#m                                             
    Now the      midnight train eases out
          B               Amaj7 /                              
Leaving     everyone ma -        rooned
     C#m7                                                  
And       without her
    A                                                   
It     might as well be the
                C#m7        Amaj7                                
surface of the        moon 

C#m7 - Amaj7      2x 
C#m7 - G#m - E 


             E                                          
So from the     well-swept streets of Jackson Heights
B           A                                              
    To the     dockside drudgery
B - C#m7                                                      
          Everything is now a replica
B        A                                                  
    Of     what it used to be
B                   E                                      
    But since they     tarted up the trenches
B        A                                                 
    And     painted the bridges blue
B             C#m7                                            
    It see -        ms less like a home to me
B                Amaj7                                         
    Than just a       place they bury you


B               G#m                                          
     Now we're      lit up like a cathedral
        B                  Amaj7 /                             
In our     frozen concrete         room 
B         C#m7                                                
     And       without her
   A                                                   
It     might as well be the 
                C#m7       A -                                 
surface of the       moon 


Break:
E           F#m                 G#m                              
     So I       need her and I      love her
         C#m        C#m                                       
That is       true 
         F#m                       G#m                         
But I'm      stuck here like some       shipwreck
            C#m                                           
Instead of      holding on to you

           A                                            
When they     beat out the tramps
     A                                                  
And     patch up the slums
B                        C#m7                                 
     Everything will be       fine
               G#m                G#7                         
There'll be a      new façade for      us 
              C#m7        Amaj7                                  
to hide be -        hind 

C#m7 - Amaj7      2x 
C#m7 - G#m - E 


           E                                            
So on the     ancient trails of our coupling
B            A                                             
     In the     places we used to meet
B             C#m7                                           
     I am a -       mazed by the lack of memories
B            A                                             
     That I     thought would flood through me
B             E                                            
     And the     riverside where we first kissed 
B         A                                                
     has     now been reduced
B          C#m7                                               
     To a       phony old world market 
B                A                                         
     where only     shoppers get seduced


B              G#m                                           
     Now your       arms embrace me strangely 
         B            Amaj7 /                                  
in your    unfamiliar         room
      B       C#m7 /                                           
And      for         all I care 
     Amaj7 /                                                  
it           might as well be the 
Amaj7                  C#m7                                       
       surface of the       moon Yeah for
C#m7 /                                                     
       all I care 
     Amaj7                                                   
it        might as well be the 
Amaj7                 C#m7       Amaj7                                  
      surface of the       moon 


Outro:
C#7sus2 - Amaj7 - C#m7 - Amaj7     (REP 7x START FADING AT 4TH)




C#m7    x42100
        X46454
Amaj7   x02120
E       022100
B       x24442
A       x02220
C#m     x46654
G#m     466444
G#7     464544
C#7sus2 x46444