Ghost Quartet - The Astronomer Chords

[Verse 1]
N.C.
I am not a priest,
And I am not a monk,
And I don't go to church much,
                                          G
But when I do, I stand, and I sing loud, I sing loud
 
[Verse 2]
G     D      G
I am the astronomer,
            Am              G
And when I look through my telescope,
      D7             G
I am certain of the universe
      D7          D               Em
I am filled with wonder from the stars,
       D         D7
And I never saw anything
   Am                   D
I couldn't blame on my mind,
   C          D7        G
So I don't believe in ghosts
 
 
[Verse 3]
    G          Em
But I like to sing,
C          D
I like to sing,
C           Am               Em
And when I hear the call to prayer
D                    D7              D
Buzzing through the speakers of the mosques,
            D7               D
There's a shock, there's a stillness
        D7                 D
As the melodies twist and zap,
        D7                  D
And the air is filled with diamonds,
       C                 D7        Em
And I wish that I could sing like that,
 D           D7        G
But I don't practice enough
 
N.C.
(Practice, practice)
 
N.C.
No, I don't practice enough
 
N.C.
(Practice, practice)
 
 
[Verse 4]
        G          C
I'm confounded by music
     Am          D7
And babies and laughter
     G           C
And stories and goodness,
   Am         D7
Infinity and luck
        G            C
I'm confused by the notion
      Am        D7
That somebody loves me,
     D7             G
And drugs make me crazy,
       Am          D7                     D          Am
And a clairvoyant told me once that I've got an old soul
             D7                     Em
Oh, lord, I wish I could sing like that,
D            D7        G
But I don't practice enough
 
N.C.
(Practice, practice)
 
N.C.
No, I don't practice enough
 
N.C.
(Practice, practice)
 
 
[Verse 5]
 Em               G
There's a man in Iran
     Em               G
Who says he talks to ghosts,
         G           C
And the way that he does it
       G                      Em           D7
Is he hasn't spoke to anyone alive in 42 years
              Am             D
He turns his mind off every day,
        D7            Am
And he stares at the wall,
                        D7
And he is one with the universe,
        D                         D7
And he says that every soul that ever died
    Am            D              G
Is living in the shadows of the sky
 
 
[Verse 6]
        D7            Em
But if that's the experiment,
    Am            D7              Em
If that's what a scientist would have to do,
                   Am              D7  C
I'm afraid I just haven't got the time,
C           G
So I'll go home,
 D7         D
Pour some whiskey,
 Am       D7
And I'll sigh,
               D             D7
And when it's time to go to bed,
 D             D7        G
I'll keep the nightlight on.
 
N.C.
(Practice, practice)
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