Shooting Star Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Em He was crazy, of course

>From the C first she must have known it

But D still she went on Bm with him

And she G never once had Em shown it

And she took him off the street

And she C dried his tears of grieving

She D listened to his Bm visions

She be G lieved in his be Em lieving

C He was the sun burning bright and brittle

And D she was the moon shining back his light a little

C He was a shooting star

Bm She was softer and more slowly

He A could not make things possible

But C she could make them holy, Holy Em

Em He was dancing to some music

No one C else had ever heard

He'd D speak in unknown Bm languages

And she would G translate every Em word

And when the world was laughing

At his C castles in the sky

She'd D hold him in her Bm body

Until he G once again could Em fly

C He was the sun burning bright and brittle

And D she was the moon shining back his light a little

C He was a shooting star

Bm She was softer and more slowly

He A could not make things possible

But C she could make them holy, Holy Em

She G gave him a daughter and she D gave him a son

She was a Bm mother and a wife

And a Em lover when the day was done

He was to G far gone for giving love

What he D offered in its stead

Was the Bm knowledge she was the only thing

That Em was not in his G head D - Em

Em He took off east one morning

Towards the C rising sun's red glow

She D knew he was going Bm nowhere

But of G course she let him Em go

And as she stood and watched him dwindle

Much too C empty to be sad

He D reappeared be Bm side her

Saying "You're G all I've ever Em had"

C He was the sun burning bright and brittle

And D she was the moon shining back his light a little

C He was a shooting star

Bm She was softer and more slowly

He A could not make things possible

But C she could make them holy, Holy Em

Ken Reynolds