Silent Key

Em      022000
Em7/D   xx0030
G       320033
Gm      3x0333

*Not entirely sure what this chord 
is.


-INTRO-
E|------------------------0--| 
B|------------------------0--| 
G|--7---9---11--2---3---4-4--| 
D|--x---x---x---x---x---x-x--| 
A|--5---7---9---0---1---2-2--| 
E|---------------------------| 


In the acoustic version he also occasionally plays the riff like this:
E|-------------------------0---| 
B|-------------------------0---| 
G|--7---9---11--2---11--12-12--| 
D|--x---x---x---x---x---x--x---| 
A|--5---7---9---0---9---10-10--| 
E|-----------------------------| 


-VERSE 1-
D              A       G   Em  
On the 28th of January 1986 
       D
Christa McAuliffe
         A                    
Gazed in horror as the O-rings 
 G
failed,
                      Em
And she died, and she died, and she 
died.
        D              A          
For the next agonising two minutes
     G               Em
 and forty-five long seconds
           D                   A  
She called out the truth on a 
        G
broken radio:
                 Em
"I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive".


-CHORUS-

A                  C#          D
It came as some surprise to realise 
that
            G
As she lost everything
Continúa después del anuncio
A                         
The world was revealed in a 
  C#             D
transmission so real
                    G
That she understood everything:

You're still alive.

(INTRO RIFF)

You're still alive.


-VERSE 2-
D                      A         
Four thousand nautical miles as 
        G
the crow flies away
  Em                D             
A home-made ham radio in the loft 
     A                G
of a Hampshire family home
                  Em
Came alive, came alive, came alive.
           D                    
And so the four year old amateur 
 A        G
operator thus became
    Em             D              
The only person to hear Christa's 
        A             G
last desperate communique:
                     Em
"We're alive, we're alive, we're 
alive".


-CHORUS-

A                  C#          D
It came as some surprise to realise 
that
            G
As she lost everything
A                         
The world was revealed in a 
  C#             D
transmission so real
                    G
That she understood everything:

You're still alive.

(PA Y FIRST CHORD FROM INTRO RIFF)

And Christa said:


-OUTRO-
-It was a little tricky to decipher 
exactly how he plays this part but I
 reckon these chords work pretty 
well.
-Please comment if you can figure it
 out a little better.


D                    Gm
"The darkness up above
Em7/D           D
Led me on like unrequited love,
Bm            Bsus4
While all the things I need
     A                A7
Were down here in the deep blue 
sea."


   D    Gm    Em7/D  D          
At four years old I heard the 
          Bm
truth on my radio,
   Bsus4        A                
So now I keep a moment's silence for
A7
 my Silent Key.