starship
blows against the empire, 1970
lyrics: paul kantner, marty balin, grace slick, gary blackman
music: paul kantner, grace slick
in f major, with chordal diversions into g minor
lead guitar: solo in f major
C Bb
What you gonna do when you feel your lady rollin'
How you gonna feel when you see your lady strollin'
On the deck of the starship
With her head hooked into Andromeda
C'mon Hijack
Gotta get back and ahead to the things that matter
Amerika hates her crazies
And you gotta let go you know
gotta let go you know
gotta let go you know
gotta let go you know or else you stay
Eb
Spillin' out of the steel glass
Gm F
gravity gone from the cage
Eb
a million pounds gone from your heavy mass
Gm F
all the years gone from your age
C Bb
Hydroponic gardens and forests
Glistening with lakes in the Jupiter starlight
Room for babies and Byzantine dancing astronauts of renown
The magician and the pantechnicon
Take along the farmer and the physician
We gotta get out and down
Back into the future
Beyond our own time again
Reachin' for tomorrow
It's so fine Starshine
Eb Gm F
the melting acid fever streakin' thru my mind
Eb Gm F
makes it ah so difficult to see you
Eb Gm F
and ah so easy to touch you
Eb F
i melt with you
Eb F
feel with you
Gm F
make love for you
Eb
at you
Eb
around you
Gm
i love you
C Bb
Dear Brumus, the ship'll be ours and you got to roll with it
And tho' your master's head's blown off you got to go with it
Roll with the natural flow
Like water off a spinning ball
Out - the one remaining way to go
Free - the only way to fall
The light in the night is the sun
And it can carry you around the planetary ground
And the planetary whip of the sun
Will carry you well past Gideon
And the people you see will leave you be
more than the ones you've known before
Hey - rollin' on
We come and go like a comet
We are wanderers
Are you anymore?
The land is green and you make it grow
And you gotta let go you know
You gotta let go you know
You gotta let go you know
Or else you stay
C Eb Bb F
mankind gone from the cage
C Eb Bb F
all the years gone from your age
C Bb
At first I was iridescent
Then I became transparent
Finally I was absent
C F
C F
Can you believe in no more war?
