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