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         D
On the 28th of January 1986 Christa McAuliffe
         A                     G
Gazed in horror as the O-rings failed,
                      Em
And she died, and she died, and she died.
        D              A               G               Em
For the next agonising two minutes and forty-five long seconds
           D                   A          G
She called out the truth on a 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
A                           C#             D
The world was revealed in a transmission so real
                    G
That she understood everything:

You're still alive.

(INTRO RIFF)

You're still alive.


-VERSE 2-
D                      A                 G
Four thousand nautical miles as the crow flies away
  Em                D                  A                G
A home-made ham radio in the loft of a Hampshire family home
                  Em
Came alive, came alive, came alive.
           D                     A        G
And so the four year old amateur operator thus became
    Em             D                      A             G
The only person to hear Christa's 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                           C#             D
The world was revealed in a 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                    Bm
At four years old I heard the truth on my radio,
   Bsus4        A                A7
So now I keep a moment's silence for my Silent Key.