2000 light years from home       (Listen to midi)    (Listen to sample)

 

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1. Sun turnin' 'round with graceful motion,

 

    we're setting off with soft explosion,

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    bound for a star with fiery oceans.

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    It's so very lonely, you're a hundred light years from home.

 

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2. Freezing red deserts turn to dark,

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    energy here in every part.

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    It's so very lonely, you're six hundred light years from home.

 

3. E - A - E     E - A - E

 

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    It's so very lonely, you're a thousand light years from home.

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    It's so very lonely, you're a thousand light years from home.

 

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4. Bell flight fourteen, you now can land,

 

    see you on Aldebaran,

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    safe on the green desert sand.

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    It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home.

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    It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home.  

 

    (The Rolling Stones)