Saturn Return
R.E.M.
Reveal (2001)
Chords used:
F#m(244222)
C#m(446654)
Bm(224432)
A(002220)
F(133211)
VERSE:
F#mC#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#mC#m BmA
Roses a dollar a stem
F#m C#m Bm A
Everyone's sleeping or pulling a long haul,
F#mC#m BmA
the keys in the cooler, it's 3 A.M.
REFRAIN:
F#m C#mF#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 BmA
You find your sights and discover
REFRAIN:
F#m C#mF#m
that Saturn is orbiting nothing
Bm F#m
is off on its own
Bm F
is breaking from home.
F#m C#mF#m C#m
Harder to look yourself square in the eye
F#mC#m Bm
Easy to take off.
VERSE:
F#m C#m Bm A
You found the ladder in the pattern of your wrist
F#mC#m BmA
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#mF#m
that Saturn is orbiting nothing
Bm F#m
is off on its own
Bm F
is breaking from home.
F#m C#mF#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 BmA
Throw them into a new gravity.
F#m C#mBm 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.
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