Skating Away Chords by Jethro Tull

[Intro]
Eb                       C       
■  Meanwhile back in the year one
Eb                   Bb    C
When you belonged to noone ■
Eb                 C         
You didn't stand a chance son


[Verse]
Bb                 F     
If your pants were undone
                         Bb      
'cause you were bred for humanity
    F       Bb     
And sold to society
        F             
One day you'll wake up
       Bb         
In the present day
  Eb                 
A million generations
Db                          
Removed from expectations of
F             Bb             C 
Being who you really want to be
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Skating away
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Skating away
F           
Skating away
       Eb                  Bb  F
On the thin ice of the new day ■
Bb                             F    
■  So as you push off from the shore
                              C   
Won't you turn your head once more
                         F       
And make your peace with everyone
Bb                         F   
■  For those who choose to stay
                        C  
Will live just one more day
                             F        
To do the things they should have done
Bb                             
And as you cross the wilderness
C                          
Spinning in your emptiness:
             F           
You feel you have to pray


[Chorus]
Bb                          Ab        Eb   F               Bb               C   
Looking for a sign that the universal mind has written you into the passion play
F           
Skating away
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Skating away
F           
Skating away
       Eb                      Bb
On the thin ice of the new day ■ 


[Verse]
F Bb                             F   
■ ■  And as you cross the circle line
                   C     
The icewall creaks behind
                F         
You're a rabbit on the run
Bb                          F  
■  And the silver splinters fly
                 C       
In the corner of your eye
                       F  
Shining in the setting sun
        Bb                                C                                F      
Well do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and in the present
         Bb                           
Tense Or that everybody's on the stage
Ab                Eb              F     
And it seems like you're the only person
Bb             C        C7
Sitting in the audience ■ 


[Chorus]
F           
Skating away
F           
Skating away
F           
Skating away
            Eb                 Bb
On the thin ice of the new day ■ 
F             
■ Skating away
F           
Skating away
             F F G7
Skating away ■ ■ ■ 


[Verse]

[Chorus]