St Elmo’s fire (Man in motion) (1985)    (video)    (midi)    (wiki)

 

    G - Em - D   - G ~ ~

 

        G             Bm                         C                   G      - Bm - C

1. Growin' up, you don't see the writing on the wall,

      G              Bm                       C                       G

    passin' by, movin' straight ahead, you knew it all.

                       Em                      C

    But maybe sometime if you feel the pain,

                              Em                      C              D

    you'll find you're all alone, everything has changed.

 

       G                    Bm                           C                  G     - Bm - C

2. Play the game, you know you can't quit until it's won,

     G              Bm                C                          G       - G - F

    soldier on, only you can do what must be done.

                         Em                          C

    You know in some way you're a lot like me,

                          Em                           C                    D

    you're just a prisoner and you're tryin' to break free.

 

E                                         - A                            B7

    I can see a new horizon       underneath the blazin' sky,

E                                                   A              B7

    I'll be where the eagle's flying higher and higher.

E                                                  - A                          B7

    Gonna be your man in motion,       all I need is a pair of wheels,

E                                                      A              B7 

    take me where my future's lyin', St. Elmo's Fire.

 

+  C       Cm     - G

         Uh uh.

 

      G               Bm                           C                  G                 Bm   C

3. Burning up, don't know just how far that I can go (just how far I go),

      G                    Bm             C                              G      - G - F

    soon be home, only just a few miles down the road.

                     Em            C

    But I can make it, I know that I can,

                           Em                           C                       D

    you broke the boy in me, but you won't break the man.

 

+  CHORUS

 

 

 

 

 

 

   E                                                       - A                    B7

+     I can climb the highest mountain,        cross the wildest sea,

E                                           A            B7   - C                 Cm    - G

    I can feel St. Elmo's Fire burnin' in me,        burnin' in me.

 

+  G - Em - D (2x)

 

    G                                 - Em                          D

+      Just once in his life           a man has his time,

G                                  - Em                      D

    and my time is now,          I'm coming alive.

 

    E                                                 - A                        B7

+       I can hear the music playin',        I can see the banners fly,

E                                                     A               B7

    feel like you're back again, and hope ridin' high.

E                                                   - A                         B7

    Gonna be your man in motion,       all I need is a pair of wheels,

E                                                     A               B7

    take me where my future's lyin', St. Elmo's Fire.

 

+  CHORUS

 

    E                                                       - A                     B7

+     I can climb the highest mountain,          cross the wildest sea,

E                                           A            B7

    I can feel St. Elmo's Fire burnin' in me.

E            - A     - B7                    E   A                 B7

    Burni......n',            burnin' in me, I can feel it burnin',

E     - A - B7   E          - A - B7

    o...........h, burnin'   ....

 

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)   (John Parr)