C                 F/A       Am
Tore up like your baby blue jeans
        C/E
I was stepping through a fog
                          F/A          G/B
Under pressure, but I'm feeling weightless
       C             F/A         Am
Can't let heaven's pin-stripe shooting
            C/E
Leave you carrying a cross
                                F/A       G/B
Across the desert when you're feeling faithless
G      Am       F               G/B
After all, this haze is only temporary
G         Am      F
Laughter falls on deaf ears in the auditorium


[Chorus]
C   F/A        G/B    C
Stories stacked up so tall
                       F
And you don't talk me down
        Am          G/B
You're talking me through
C       F/A          G/B     C
Bright lights, our platform fire
                F
I'm a man on a wire
        Am           G/B
You're here for the view


[Verse 2]
  C              F/A        Am
Scattered in the mist, unmoving
              C/E
It's getting hard for you to watch
                             F/A         G/B
Me under pressure when I'm feeling weightless
C                  F/A          Am
Up where tensions aren't computing
                C/E
And where I've never fallen off
                                F/A
I guess I'd like to think your worry's wasted
F/C               Em
Worry's wasted on me
      Am         F/C            G/B     Em
After all, this haze may not be temporary
             Am
I heard you call
         F/A
From the back row of the auditorium


[Chorus]
C        F/A      G/B   C
Stories stacked up so tall
                       F
And you don't talk me down
         Am        G/B
You're talking me through
C       F/A          G/B     C
Bright lights, our platform fire
                F
I'm a man on a wire
        Am          G/B
You're here for the view
                F/C
I'm a man on a wire
        Am           G
You're here for the view


[Bridge]
    Am
So tell me what you think
                 G/B
When you see me there
     F/A
And tell me what you see
                   G
When the smoke is clear
C                  F/A       Am
Tore up like your baby blue jeans
        C/E
I was stepping through a fog


[Final Chorus]
C        F/A    G/B    C
Stories stacked up so tall
                        F
And you don't talk me down
         Am         G/B
You're talking me through

Yeah, just like you always do
C       F/A          G/B     C
Bright lights, our platform fire
                F
I'm a man on a wire
        Am           G/B
You're here for the view
                F/C
I'm a man on a wire
        Am           G/B
You're here for the view

C       F/A          G/B     C
Bright lights, our platform fire
                F
I'm a man on a wire
         Am          G
You're talking me through