2025 squeaky scratch recording
~1976 handwritten lead sheet
Rough chordpro script
{title: For Starry Eyes by P Maas}
{start_of_verse}
GROWNUP[Gma7]”You, with your [Bmi7]starry-eyed [Gmi7]notions of the [DM7]world,
[Em9]think we could [F#7]make in on [A6/Bm11]love alone…” [E7],
0D"
... and[Em9]think we all [F#7]bleed cause we [A9]don’t feed our [C11]souls, and
[Emi9]don’t feel our [F#7]hearts beat, and
[Bmi7]don’t heed our [c#1/2dim]
wrongs, and
[GMa7]don’t hear our [C#dim]neighbors [bmi9flat13]groaning.”
{end_of_verse}
GROWNUP{start_of_verse}
[Gma7]”You believe in [Bmi7]changing tides,
[Gmi7]songs of light, and [DM7]dawn.
[Em9]You foresee a [F#7]grace to fall – like
[Bmi7=bdf#ac#ef#] manna – on our [E9}outstretched arms, to
[Emi9]cover us for [F#7}good, in
[A9]care for all and [C11]sisterhood…”
0D“so [Emi9]peace could [F#7]breathe
like a [Bmi7]sigh of re- [C#1/2dim]-lief, and
[Gmi7]warm us little [C#dim]children by its [Bmi9flat13?= bc#f#g]fire.”
{end_of_verse}
GROWNUP{start_of_chorus}
“Shine a [GM7]light to your [Bmi7]hope,
it is [D7]powder, it is [F#7]smoke – and
[Ami]dust those [C7]dreams from your [Em7]mind.” [F#9]
“We don’t [GMa7]spin like [Emi7]moons, [DMa7]we are planted here we [Emi7]bloom,
painting [Gma7]colors [C7]on the [A13 = ac#egbflatdf#]globe we can’t see.”
GROWNUP & 0D“…painting colors on the glove we can’t [A11Bb9]see.”
{end_of_chorus}