STARS (LIVE)
As recorded by Nina Simone
(From the 2011 Album LIVE AT MONTREUX 1976)
Chorus
[D] [Am]
Stars, they come and go
[Am]
They come fast, they come slow
[B7]
They go like the last light of the sun
[Em]
All in a blaze
[A7]
All you see is glory
[D]
But it gets lonely there
[A] [F#]
When there's no one there to share
[Em] [A]
You can shake it away
[A]
If you'll hear a story
Verse 1
[D]
People lust for fame
[F#m] [D7]
Like athletes in a game
[D7]
They break their collarbones
[Em]
And come up swinging
[A]
Some of them are crowned
[A]
Some of them are downed
[A]
Some are lost and never found
[D]
But most have seen it all
[F#]
They live their lives
[D] [B] [Em7]
In sad cafés and music halls
[A]
And they always have a story
Verse 2
[D]
Some make it when they're young
[F#] [Bm]
Before the world has done its dirty job
[G] [Em]
And later on someone will say
[Em]
"You've had your day
[A]
Now you must make way" (Don't they always?)
[D]
But you'll never know the pain
[F#m] [Am]
Of using a name you never owned
[Em] [A]
The years of forgetting what you know too well
Bridge
[D]
That you who gave the crown
[F#]
Have been let down
[C] [Bm] [Em]
You try to make amends
[A]
Without defending
Verse 3
[D]
Perhaps pretending
[A] [D]
You never saw the eyes
[B7]
Of young men at twenty-five
[B7]
Who followed as you walked
[Em7]
Asked for autographs
[Em7]
Kissed you on the cheek
[Em7]
You never could believe
[A]
They really loved you, never
[D]
Some make it when they're old
[F#m]
Perhaps they have a soul
[B7] [Em7]
They aren't afraid to bare
[A7] [Em7] [A]
Perhaps there's nothing there
Bridge
[A]
But anyway
[D]
That isn't what I meant to say
[F#m]
I meant to tell about a story
[Am] [F#m]
Since we all have stories
[B7]
But I can't remember it anyway
[Em7] [A7]
So I'll tell about the mood that's in the United States today
[A7]
And permeating even Switzerland
[A] [D]
It goes
Interlude
[D] [D7]
Verse 4
[D7] [G] [C] [Em]
But I'll continue anyway until I get it together
[Em]
Some women have a body
[A7]
Men would want to see
[A7]
And so they put it on display
[D] [A]
Some people play a fine guitar
[Am]
I could listen to them play all day
[B7] [Em7]
But anyway
[A]
I'm trying to tell my story
[D] [Bm]
Janis Ian told it very well
[Em7]
Janis Joplin told it even better
[A] [D]
Billie Holiday even told it even better
[A] [Bm7]
We always, we always
[Em]
We always have a story
Outro
[Em]
The latest story that I know
[Em]
Is the one that I'm supposed to go out with
[Em]
And the latest story that I know
[A]
Is the one that I'm supposed to go out with
[A]
And the latest story that I know
[A]
Is the one that I'm supposed to go out with
[A]
And the latest story that I know
[A]
Is the one that I'm supposed to go out with
[C#] [A] [F#m] [B]
Nothing more than feelings
N.C. [B]
Felings, nothing more than feelings
[E] [A] N.C.
Feelings of love, you know that
