Biography:
Alex the Astronaut is Australian folktronica singer-songwriter Alex Lynn.
Alex has been described as one of "Australia's most powerful and important songwriters". She released her first two EPs in 2017 - the first: To Whom It May Concern which features the single [single artist=Alex the Astronaut album=To Whom It May Concern]Already Home[/single] and was described by Huffington post as "a melancholy number about a bus ride and ruminations on the mundanities of life" and includes the line "there's billionaires for president
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[Intro]
D D
A E D D x2
[Verse 1]
A E D D
Wired smiles from the streets I think they're getting high
A E D D
I don't mind the sunny puddles let's hope my socks and shoes will dry
A E D D
Somethings put me in a daze did i tell you i got lost today
A E D D A E D D
And I know the streets are numbered Welcome to New York they'll sayyyyy
[Chorus]
C#m B
I think they could tell I was nervous
A E
Cause I kept looking down I kept watching the ground
C#m B
But I made my way back through the chorus
A E
And the half baked crowd started cheering quite loud
C#m B
And I didn't know if it was for me
A E
So I lifted my eyes from my feet
C#m B
Oh was it something to see
A E
I smiled and remembered to breath
C#m B
Mum I sang in Rockstar City
A E
I think you'd be proud I think you'd be proud
C#m B
Oh I sang in Rockstar City
A E
I think you'd be proud
[Verse 2]
A E D D
Lunch in Soho Noho I don't know they seem the same to me
A E D D
Mumma foam took me from noho the afternoon was looking free
A E D D
Wheel the horses from their feet the taxi's good enough for me
A E D D A E D D
Money tree's can't sell to me past the gardens built for freeeeee
[Chorus]
C#m B
I think they could tell I was nervous
A E
Cause I kept looking down I kept watching the ground
C#m B
But I made my way back through the chorus
A E
And the half baked crowd started cheering quite loud
C#m B
And I didn't know if it was for me
A E
So I lifted my eyes from my feet
C#m B
Oh was it something to see
A E
I smiled and remembered to breath
C#m B
Mum I sang in Rockstar City
A E
I think you'd be proud I think you'd be proud
C#m B
Oh I sang in Rockstar City
A E
I think you'd be proud
[Instrumental]
F# A E E
[Bridge]
F# A E
Crying at the garden edge won't let you see the flowers that grow in spring
[Verse 3]
A E D D
Past the front desk bearing glass he ask he's working there too late
A E D D
So I stayed long enough to care still ideas that I don't get
A E D D
Coloured hair and fancy dress seem to be the theme here I would guess
A E D D A E D D
It's time to go I've got a show breathe slow as jelly fills my leeeegs
[Chorus]
C#m B
I think they could tell I was nervous
A E
Cause I kept looking down I kept watching the ground
C#m B
But I made my way back through the chorus
A E
And the half baked crowd started cheering quite loud
C#m B
And I didn't know if it was for me
A E
So I lifted my eyes from my feet
C#m B
Oh was it something to see
A E
I smiled and remembered to breath
C#m B
Mum I sang in Rockstar City
A E
I think you'd be proud I think you'd be proud
C#m B
Oh I sang in Rockstar City
A E
I think you'd be proud
[Outro]
C#m B A
Yeah I sang in Rockstar City Oh It can't have been all that pretty
C#m B A E
but I sang in Rockstar City I think you'd be proud I think you'd be proud
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