This song features two guitars, the one you hear first is in normal tuning, and the louder
acoustic that comes in as shown below is in drop D tuning. I'm pretty terrible at working out
lyrics, but these would be pretty close.
Guitar One only...
Am D
The road falls gently from the modern gun
Am D
theres motion in the mystery of your face
Am D
a lion crawls slowly in the modern sun
Am D
theres motion in the history of your grace
Second guitar comes in, playing power chords with drop D tuning.
NB: The power chords actually go more like Am G Am and then to D. Very easy to hear if you play
along.
Am
in the modern station
D
in the modern stone
Am D
in the modern talk you hate
Am
in the modern planet
D
in the modern sun
Am D
in the modern bowl you shave
Guitar 2 (drop D tuning)
first guitar fill
e:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
B:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
G:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
D:-0----2--------------0---2-----0-4b/\--0---2--------------0---2---0-----------
A:-0--0---0-3-0-5-5-3--0-0---0-3---------0-0---0-3-0-5-5-3--0-0---0-0-----------
D:-0-------------------0-----------------0------------------0-------0-----------
Am D
the sun crawls slowly in the eastern sky
Am D
theres motion in the mystery of your fate
Am D
the clouds fall softly once the kingdom drowns
Am D
theres motion in the history of your state
Am
and your sisters curses
D
waking up
Am G
and the modern drugs you take
C A7/sus4/6
it's all in a file
Am F
they pull you over
D Am
it's really over now they
F A7/sus4/6
think they know your name
Am C
it's falling apart
F D
from everyone
Am G F G
she dreams into my head
she dreams into my head
Guitar Two: second guitar fill
Play this riff repeatedly under trumpet solo, then finish on an open D power chord.
e:----------------------
B:----------------------
G:-----0---0h2-0--------
D:---2-----------2------
A:-0--------------------
D:-------3--------------
the sun falls gently from the modern gun
theres motion in the mystery of your hate
a line bends slowly when the hero runs
the middle of the east is in flames
in the modern power
in the modern thumb
in the modern fool you shape
in the final painting, hanging up
in the modern war you wage
CHORUS: repeat as above
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