Tell Me, Mechanist Chords
by Delain
Tell Me, Mechanist by Delain is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of B. It uses the chords A, F#m, B, G, D, E, C#, G# and G#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
A F#m B G
Tell me, mechanist, is it true?
A F#m
Does none of it bother you?
B A F#m
B A F#m
B A F#m
D
Once upon a time
A
Upon a time behind us
D
The mechanist inclined
F#m
Clockworks of time define us
G A
Who you are, who you are
G
Merely springs that tick
A E
The time of things away
B
The cry from the beast is just the noise
Of a spring that you have touched
A F#m
Not a human: Not a voice
C# A B
If only we could go back to the start (tell me, mechanist, is it true?)
C# A B G#
We would see we’re not that far apart (does none of it bother you?)
C# A B
Realize the likeness of our hearts
A
If we could go back
F#m
We could go back
B G
One and the same
A
Likely to one another
G
But the mechanist inclined
B F#m
Merely our kind can suffer
A E G A
Who you are, who you are
G
Does it justify
A
Pleasing your palate
E
With the other’s blood?
B
Tell me why, have the writings on the wall
Nor the dawn of DNA
A F#m
Changed a single thing at all?
C# A B
If only we could go back to the start (tell me, mechanist, is it true?)
C# A B G#
We would see we’re not that far apart (does none of it bother you?)
C# A B
Realize the likeness of our hearts
A
If we could go back
F#m G#m
We could go back
B C#
to the start
B
Closing collision:
The end of our divide
A
Savor the flavor of our ancestry rites
B
Closing collision:
We’ll realize in time
A B
No opposition
We’re genetically entwined
A B G
A F#m B G
Tell me, mechanist, is it true?
A F#m
Does none of it bother you?
C# A B
We could go back to the start (tell me, mechanist, is it true?)
C# A B G#
We would see we’re not that far apart (does none of it bother you?)
C# A B
Realize the likeness of our hearts
A
If we could go back
F#m G#m
We could go back
B C#
to the start