Mike Oldfield - The Story Of Man On The Rocks Chords

[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ Music is so many different things.
[Gm] To me it's just all music, [Bb] so it's quite natural for
me to make [F] a rock album as it is to make a classical album.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ When I first [Gm] heard [F] Luke Spiller's vocal, which my record company sent me, I thought,
[Gm] wow, that's the voice we need.
[Bb] I'm Luke Spiller.
[F] I'm guest vocalist on Michael Oldfield's new [Eb] album, Man on the Rock, and
I'm in a band called The Struts.
When there [Gm] was talks of doing the new [Dm] album, I got [Ab] a
phone call from the head of my label, and he _ informed me that Mike was doing [Eb] a new album.
In the beginning I [Bb] needed something to listen to, and I put the voice [Dm] on myself.
Then there
was a long period of trying to decide [Ab] who should sing it, should it be a male vocal,
should it be a [Eb] mixture of male and female, and we had a whole list of [F] possibilities.
After the first couple of sessions, it just seemed [Bb] really good and natural, and then Mike
[F] heard the tracks and he was really excited about it, so it just went on from there really.
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_ _ [Bb] _ Well _ _ _ we just [F] did everything mostly by Skype.
Obviously as the internet's [Eb] become faster and faster, live communications between [F] content
is not a problem on the internet anymore.
I had two Skype feeds, one of Luke in the
vocal booth and one of Steve [Gm] Lipson, Nick, our producer in the [Bb] control room.
I had [F] Mike in the vocal booth telling me how he'd want me to phrase certain [Eb] things and
put across certain emotions.
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_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] Sometimes it was a little bit [F] difficult to get their attention, so I would be in my studio going,
_ [Eb] _ _ Hi _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Mike, _ _ [G] welcome to the [Ab] Bahamas, [F] great to see you.
_ _ [G] Yeah, I didn't meet him until [C] 24 hours ago, so it was a [Db] real honour to [Gm] meet him, yeah. _ _ _ _ _
At the [Cm] beginning we were [G] deciding whether [Cm] to do [G] the live sessions in London with English
musicians [D] or [G] to do them in their name.
Those sessions were [C] superb, I can tell you, and
I was just [G] hearing my music done by, played by these fantastic musicians.
The demos I was working towards were [A] still _ [G] pretty high standard anyway, and when I heard
the final sort of like versions with the people [D] from LA, [G] it was just sort of like the icing
[C] on the cake.
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sky all dark [G] and _
[Am] _ [Em] grey_
Because the demos were [Am] first [Em] take stuff, it was like the guitars [F] on sailing, the acoustic
guitar, I _ [G] couldn't do that better.
So we [Am] ended up using the [Em] guitars from [Am] the demo
[Em] but with the rest of the live [D] band.
That just sort of like made it that little bit more [G] sweeter.
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moonshine in the [D] rain, and raised our [C] glasses to the wind, [G] the day that we [C] dreamed
we could be [G] free, riding on [Em]
wings of liberty.
[D] _ _ So [G] here's one more for our [D] friends, and [C] here's
one for our [G] children, _ feeling [C] the cold rain on our [G] fingertips, _ [Em] and [D] moonshine on [C] our lips. _ _ _
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_ And there'll [Em] be a terrible [D] _
_ [Bm] _ _ scandal_ _ _ _
[Em] I don't think of myself as a songwriter at all.
_ You come out of the blue really, [D] writing
lyrics [B] that actually come from you, from [Em] your _ deepest [N] emotions, [Em] sort of resonate in _ [N] people's
general lives.
That means in the end I'm a _ _ songwriter.
[E] That's not exactly how I think of myself.
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_ [D] so [Em] _
_ _ great now, we are in [D] _
_ [A] now_
_ The album [Em] as a whole, I think it's pretty [D] strong, but _ [Em] I really [A] like [D] Man on the [A] Rocks.
I think when I first heard it, it reminded me of like, it has like a Pink Floyd kind
of vibe [B] to it.
And [Em] so I was getting really excited [E] about that [D] from day one.
[Bm] It's a great
track to sing.
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will [Em] be _ chariots to [D]
carry [B] us home, will [Em] be chariots [C] to [D] carry [Em] us _ home_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ I felt the pressure a bit.
I wanted to please _ [Em] the fans and I hope they really enjoy it.
And [E] most of all, I wanted to please Mike.
So I knew being true to myself more than anything
[C] would do that.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _
let me [G] out_
It's nice to, you know, I was just thinking like, as soon as I sort of landed [C] here, _ _ you
know, listening to the album, I can [G] see the album now, not just hear it.
You know, I can _
[C] identify with everything that he was talking about.
It's not like I make [G]
songs about, you know, la la la, baby this, you know, it's just real
_ [Am] powerful stuff, you know?
_ Sit up and [G] listen stuff.
_ I'm just really excited about it and I feel really [F] _ blessed and [G] honoured that [C] people are so interested.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
_ sail [C] with _ _ me_
Really what I was trying to do [G] with this album, the sailing was almost saying, I'm fed up
[Fm] with this, I'm off. _
[Gm] _ _ [Em] So people can't judge the album just by [G] listening to sailing.
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[F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
you know if you wanna [G] come with me, _ we can sail away, _ _ [C] _ cross the line, _ if you've got
[G] time, _ come with me, _ mate_
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sail with [G] _ me_ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] sail with _ _ me_
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sail with [F] _
_ [C] me_ _ _ _ _ _
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