A E A
From the sky to highway straight as it could be
D E A (G#)
A string pulled tight from home to Tennessee
F#m D A (C#) D
Still somehow those ditches took the better part of me
A E A
From the sky to highway straight as it could be
F#m A D A
Take my hand baby we’re over land
F#m A E
I know flying over water makes you cry
F#m A
Been in the sky so long
D A
Seems like the long way home
F#m A E
But I can’t for the life of me say why…
FADE UP: This would make a great song to play over end credit roll. Think of it as Ridley Scott’s Gladiator. But moved up in time from 181 AD. To 2014. FADE DOWN.
I dig it when the hero heads off into the sunset alone. Like Eastwood. Like Coppola’s ‘Somewhere’.
Or Anti-hero? We like anti-heros. Less predictable.
Fuck it… we’ll figure it out.
PLAY IT LOUD.