Steam chords by Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel - Steam
Written By Peter Gabriel
from "Us", 1992
Key: E-Flat Minor
Time: 4/4
Tempo: 108

INTRO:
|  ||Ebm7   || (X 8 bars)
VERSE A-1
   |Ebm7    |  Ab/Eb |Ebm7    |
Stand back!
|Ebm7   Ab/Eb   |Ebm7    |  Ab/Eb |
       Stand back!
|Ebm7    |  Ab/Eb |
|Absus4             |        Ab |
    What are those dogs doing sniffing at my feet
|Absus4
    They're on to something,
    |       Ab   |Ebm7   |
Picking up, picking up  this heat
|Ebm7   Ab/Eb  |Ebm7   |  Ab/Eb
       This heat

CHORUS 1
    ||B         |Gb/Bb      Db |
Give me steam, and how you feel can make it real,
|Ebm7           |
 Real as any thing you've seen
     |B  |Gb     Db/Ab   |Ebm7    ||
Get a life_______ with this dreamer's dream

VERSE B-1
|Ebm7                 |   |
   You know your culture from your trash
   You know your plastic from your cash
|Ebm7             |Bbm
   When I lose sight of the track
        |Abm
You know the way back
     |Ebm7  |
But I know you

VERSE B-2
 You know your stripper from your paint
 You know your sinner from your saint
 Whenever heaven's doors are shut
 You get them open but
 I know you

CHORUS 2
 Give me steam, and how you feel can make it real,
 Real as any place you've been
 Get a life with the dreamer's dream

VERSE A-2

 Stand back,
 Said stand back!

 Can't you see I've lost control and I'm getting
 indiscreet
 You're moving in so close 'til I'm
 Picking up, picking up this heat
 This heat

CHORUS 1
VERSE B-3 & 4
 You know your green from your red
 You know the quick from the dead
 So much better than the rest
 You think you've been blessed
 But I know you

 You know your ladder from your snake
 You know the throttle from the brake
 You know your straight line from a curve
 You've got a lot of nerve
 But I know you

CHORUS 2
BRIDGE
||N.C./Db                 ||
 Everybody nosedive
 Hold your breath, count to five
 Backslap, boobytrap,
 Cover it up in bubblewrap,
 Room shake, earthquake,
 Find a way to stay awake,
 It's going to blow, it's going to break
 This is more than I can take
||EBm7    |  AB/EB

VERSE A-3
 Oh yeah,
 I need steam
 Feel the steam around me

 Ah you're turning up the hear
 When I start to dream aloud
 See you move your hands and feet
 Won't you step into this cloud of steam,

 This steam

CHORUS 1
CODA
||Ebm7    |  Ab/Eb || (X 12 with these vocal ad lib)
Help me yeah
Ready to steam out the log jam
Stir crazy from the freezer to the foil
Water's bubbling, b...b...b...bubbling like it's
coming to the boil
Give me steam, lady
Give me steam around me now
Coming alive, coming alive
         |Eb(no 3rd) ||
Said give me some steam