Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day Chords by Jethro Tull

[Start]

[Intro]

[Verse]
Eb        Bb          Eb   C    
Meanwhile back in the year ■ one
         C                 
When you belonged to no one
Eb            Bb      C         
■  You didn't stand a chance son
Eb      Bb         F      F
If your pants were undone ■
                Bb   F   Bb      
'cause you were bred for humanity
    F       Bb     
And sold to society
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One day you'll wake up ■ in the present day
  Eb                  Db                       
A million generations removed from expectations
   F       Csus4   Bb             C 
Of ■ being who you really want to be


[Chorus]
Bb      F                             
Skating away skating away 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've done
Bb                             
And as you cross the wilderness
C                         
Spinning in your emptiness
       F           
If you have to pray


[Chorus]
Bb                             Ab        Eb   
■  Looking for a sign that the universal minds
F               Bb               C   
Has written you into the passion play
F       Fsus4 F Fsus4   F    Fsus4   F   
Skating away  ■ skating away skating away
                           Eb  Bb F
On the thin ice of the new day ■  ■
Bb                      F          
■  And as you cross the circle line
                         C     
Well the ice wall 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                         
Well do you ever get the feeling
     C                        
That the story's too damn real
           F            
And in the present tense


[Chorus]
Bb                         Ab   
Or that everybody's on the stage
             Eb              F   
And it seems like you're the only
       Bb             C        Csus4
Person sitting in the audience ■    
        F                             
Skating away skating away skating away
                           Eb  Bb
On the thin ice of the new day ■ 
F                           N.C.        
■ Skating away skating away skating away


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