To Be A Star Chords
To Be A Star by Melanie Safka is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, C, G, Am, D7, D, A, Bm and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: F
C G Am C
To be a star, you've got to shine
D7 C G
To be the light in someone's heart
Am
You gotta be bigger than you are
G F G C
Gotta be bigger than you are
G Am C
If you can't reach what you can see
D7 C G
When dreams are your reality
Am
It's time to be bigger than you are
G F G C
Time to be bigger than you are
Am
Are you ready for the sudden awakening
C F
Are you ready for the total recall
G F
Are you ready for the truth when it's told and
G
How do you know that it's the truth at all
C
Sometimes that truth isn't honest
Am F
Sometimes it cuts like a knife
Some days take more than all day and
G F
Some lives take more than one life
C G Am C
To be a star, you've got to shine
D7 C G
To be the light in someone's heart
Am
You gotta be bigger than you are
G F C F
Gotta be bigger than you are
C G Am C
If a smile would break on every face
D7 C G
At once our planet, human race
Am
Would learn how to find the path with heart
G F G C
We could be bigger than we are, bigger than we are
Are you ready for the rock and roll ending
Am F
Are you ready for the rigmarole
Are you ready when you gave it all
G C
And you'll be damned if you know where you're gonna get some more
Am F
Are you ready, are you ready
Ready to be bigger (are you ready)
C Am F
Ready to be bigger than a star
D A Bm D
To be a star you've got to shine
E7 D
To be the light in someone's heart
A Bm
You gotta be bigger, bigger than you are
A G A D
Bigger than you are, bigger than you are
A Bm D
To be a star you've got to shine
E7 D
To be the light in someone's heart
A Bm
You gotta be bigger, bigger than you are
A G A D
Bigger than you are, bigger than you are