Skating Away Chords by Jethro Tull

[Start]

[Intro]

[Verse]
Eb        Bb               C    
Meanwhile back in the year ■ one
Eb       Bb          C    
When you belonged to noone
Bb                 C         
You didn't stand a chance son
Eb 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                           F
Removed from expectations of ■
              Bb             C 
Being who you really want to be


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


[Verse]
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       Fsus4 F
Skating away  ■
Fsus4   F   
Skating away
Fsus4   F   
Skating away
                           Eb  Bb F
On the thin ice of the new day ■  ■
Bb                             F   
■  And as you cross the circle line
                   C     
The icewall creaks behind


[Verse]
                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                         Ab   
Tense Or that everybody's on the stage


[Chorus]
             Eb              F          
And it seems like you're the only person
Bb             C        Csus4
Sitting in the audience ■    
F           
Skating away
        F   
Skating away
        F   
Skating away
                           Eb  Bb F
On the thin ice of the new day ■  ■
        F   
Skating away
        F   
Skating away


[End]
N.C.        
Skating away