Chords for Peter Gabriel - Full Moon March 2023 - Playing for Time

_ _ Hi there lunatics, [C] welcome to another monthly [C#m] release.
_ It's the worm [Cm] moon March the 7th today [Bm] and
_ [G] Well, it isn't March [D] the 7th today because I'm pre [A] recording this but it will be by [Cm] the time you see it
_ _ [G] This is playing for time
[Dm] _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
Out amongst [Bm] the stars
_ [G] _ [B] There's a planet spinning [A] slowly
_ [Cm] We call it ours
[Bm] _ _ _ [Dm] any [B] time
_ [Em] _ _ _ any day
_ _ [G] _ _ _ Any moment that we bring to life
[C] Will never fade away
[G] _ _ It's a song [Em] that I've been [B] working on for a [Em] long time
And [G] I've performed without lyrics [Em] unfinished
_ _ [Bm] So some of you may be familiar with it
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Dm] On the bones [C#] of a beat
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [G] _
It's been an important [Bm] one for me and I [B] think it's a personal [Em] lyric, you know, it's partly about time [D] memories [G] getting older and
_ _ _ _ [G] Also, you know whether we're prisoners [B] of time or
Whether that's something that actually can free us
If you've ever seen someone whose [Em] memory has been lost through a car [G] accident or something they
_ [Em] Often feel quite lost.
I [D] think it is our history [Em] our sense of place in time [D] as well as geographical place
[Bm] _
Is part of what gives us meaning?
so _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ Somehow and I do think [D] it's good in life to [Em] to push yourself _
towards more
Bold or interesting experiences because then you'll have richer [G] memories to feed you when you get to
my antiquated years
[Am] _ _ And I think it [G] also, you know _
You get taught by every experience
[A] particularly every sort of meaningful [C] experience that you go through so
[G] _ _
_ So this was about
_ assembling and [B] organizing and ordering
[C] _ memories _ _
It's been through many incarnations and
[D] _ _ _
_ [C#] I've actually written this thing about
[G] _
Planet full of memories that this idea that a couple have this place out there that [A] is
recording everything they do and
[Cm] You can dip back into it [G] somehow _
I'd [Em] seen the work of Annette Messager _
[D] who's a wonderful artist [G] many many years ago and _
_ Nearly got her involved in the art from [Em] us project or nearly approached her on that but
[G] _ [Em] Didn't but this time I thought
_ _ With this [G] coincidence of this planet of [Em] memories
She'd be the right person to [G] ask to do something for this [Em] song
She's I think been a real [D] pioneering [Bm] sculptor if you look at the breadth of her work
[C] You'll find I think influenced on a lot of younger artists working today _
It's [D] great that [G] she wanted to get involved with this [Em] _ _
_ _ [G] this thinking about time [Em] also
_ _ [D] _ [G] Fed in [C] or was fed by
_ Danny Hillis his work is this _
[B] Great [Am] friend, but he's brilliant
_ innovative [D#] computer scientist [G] of his many _ _
Extraordinary inventions the 10,000 year clock is one of those [C] and it's an idea to
[G] Try and encourage us to think long term and [B] that's
_ [C] _ with
[G] People like Stuart Brand and Peter Schwartz.
They've sort of evolved this
[E]
thing into the long now foundation _ [F#] and they've [G] taken on
_ [C] to which your brand, you know is also working on but they've
_ _ [G] Had lots of ideas that I think
[Am] long-term thinking
_ _ And one thought was to try and preserve all the languages [G] that are being _
eradicated
you [D] know because we think of extinction with [Em] with animals and plants, but but our
human [D] languages are also disappearing so they're trying to record those and _
_ I'm sure that if we have a chance of
surviving the sort of
existential problems that we now face
We have to start thinking
Much bigger and longer
_ _ To make some real headway
_ So I think what they do is enormously valuable and there's some amazing talks there.
So
_ For those that want a deep dive into time and long-term thinking the long now foundation is a wonderful place to start
_ _ we tried a few versions of this song and
_ Some were better than others and if you want to take the deep dive you can hear some of these but
_ And the band are always very patient with me with these different interpretations
_ [G] And even though I performed and played piano [C] live quite a lot.
I felt
that [B] this is something [G] that I could get in a real piano [F#] player for and Tom [Em] Corley is
brilliant musician and
Played with me on the new blood tour John Metcalf introduced me
[G] _
I
thought we [Em] could get him down and [Gm] at first first he [F#] came down and played with the band, but I
Thought there was still some things that could be done a little differently
like the intro and
he was kind enough to come down again to my house in [Am] London where I have a beautiful piano and
did a wonderful recording _ [G] and then we did the
string section that the British Grove Studios and
_ Made me very happy to see a lot of the same faces from the new blood orchestra _ _
so
_ _ That was lovely and I hope to be able [D] to credit all of them because often you know orchestras are
_ moving
_ body of people they do change quite regularly and _ _ _
_ Oops
_ _ _ They do yeah change quite regularly the orchestras so _ _
_ That's my dog refer _ making a comment [A] in the background _ _ _ _ _ _
So lovely to have some of [F#] the same team working on [Em] this particular song and _ _
I think it's one of the most emotional songs on the record _
_ _ Some wonderful performances [F] here from [G] from the band
_ _ _ Tony again doing some beautiful things [F#] and _ _
[D] Yeah, thank you, thank you rapper _ _
Tony has a [Em] fan down there
_ on the [C] album generally you'll find
[G] the brilliant work of [D] John Metcalf who is my normal [Em] so go-to arranger [C] and
He's done some fantastic [G] stuff
but [D] on this track and it was partly this sort of [Em] chromatic scale and
[C] _
Slightly retro [G] feel that I wanted I thought back to
[A] That'll do the Randy Newman [C] song that I sang
_ _ [G] and
Ed Sheeran done a beautiful arrangement on that and I [A] thought maybe that [D] sort of thing would [C] really suit this song very [G] well and
_ _ So we managed to track it down [Em] again and
_ [C] When I first heard the demos
_ [G] Yeah, what a tear [D] to the eye because I just [Em] felt so much emotion in it particularly [C] at the end and so
[G] _ You know, [D] that's definitely what I want to [Bm] try and do with this song is give that give people [C] an emotional [G] journey
So that means a lot to me and I hope it does to you too
[A] _ They're all [C] too easy
playing [G] for time _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [C] Everybody's playing [G] for time _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ You and I [C] still play
_ _ for [G] time _ _
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