Bang chords by Tori Amos

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:

F# minorF#m      C#C#
Bang went the gun on their tongue
F# minorF#m           B minorBm
Word crucifixion toward immigrants shunned
E MajorE            C#C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
"Immigrants. That's who we all are
       A augmentedA  A/Ab  F# minorF#m
'cause we're all made of stars,"
      D MajorD
you said to them
      C#C#  C#/B C#/A  C#/G#
Oh yes you did

Verse 2:

F# minorF#m      C#C#
Bang went the universe
D#m/A#        B minorBm
Hydrogen lusting for helium's burst
E MajorE            C#C#   C#/B C#/A C#/G#
A augmentedA mighty sun's dance of death, exp--lo----ding
A augmentedA B minorBm F# minorF#m
Su-per nova
      D MajorD
One story's end,
         C#C#   C#/B C#/A  C#/G#
seeds another to begin


Chorus:

D MajorD        F# minorF#m
Then the heavens opened and then
D MajorD       F# minorF#m
I heard voices joined in hosannas
D MajorD        A augmentedA  C#C#  D MajorD
breathlessly. I saw your star


Bridge:

A augmentedA      G+G    A augmentedA
So bright it blinded me
 D MajorD   G+G     F# minorF#m
I had to shield my eyes
A augmentedA      G+G    A augmentedA
So bright it blinded me
 D MajorD   G+G     F# minorF#m
I had to shield my eyes
A augmentedA      G+G    A augmentedA
So bright it blinded me
 D MajorD   G+G     F# minorF#m
I had to shield my eyes
D MajorD          B minorBm
And then you took my hand
      C#C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
Oh yes you did

Verse 3:

F# minorF#m       C#C#
Bang the world. Now traumatized
D#m/A#         B minorBm
by a cluster of hostile humans who side
E MajorE           C#C#  C#/B C#/A C#/G#
with their warlords of hate so  we  must
A augmentedA  B minorBm F# minorF#m
out-create
           D MajorD
with 'The Backbone of Night'
     C#C#  C#/B C#/A  C#/G#
to re-humanize


Chorus:

D MajorD        F# minorF#m
Then the heavens opened and then
D MajorD       F# minorF#m
I heard voices joined in hosannas
D MajorD        A augmentedA  C#C#  D MajorD
breathlessly. I saw your star


Bridge:

A augmentedA      G+G    A augmentedA
So bright it blinded me
 D MajorD   G+G     F# minorF#m
I had to shield my eyes
A augmentedA      G+G    A augmentedA
So bright it blinded me
 D MajorD   G+G     F# minorF#m
I had to shield my eyes
A augmentedA      G+G    A augmentedA
So bright it blinded me
 D MajorD   G+G     F# minorF#m
I had to shield my eyes
D MajorD          B minorBm
And then you lit the path
      C#C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
Oh yes you did


Outro:

F# minorF#m         C#C#
  "Can't they see,"  he said to me,
D#m/A#     B minorBm  D MajorD     C#C#
 "that we all  are molecular  machines?"
D MajorD         F#dim/C
 Goals and dreams.    All I wanna be
C#C#       C#/B   C#/A C#/G#
  is the very best machine  I can be
F# minorF#m    C#C#
  Oxygen   and Carbon
D#m/A# B minorBm  D MajorD     C#C#
part of  our molecular  machines


D MajorD         F#dim/C
 Goals and dreams.    All I wanna be
C#C#       C#/B   C#/A C#/G#
  is the very best machine  I can be


F# minorF#m     C#C#
  Hydrogen, calcium
D#m/A#   B minorBm D MajorD    C#C#
phosphorus, po--tassium, sulfur
D MajorD     F#dim/C
 Sodium.    All I wanna be
C#C#       C#/B   C#/A C#/G#
  is the very best machine  I can be
F# minorF#m    C#C#
Chlorine,  magnesium
D#m/A#  B minorBm  D MajorD  C#C#
Boron,  chromium, cobalt
D MajorD        F#dim/C
Copper, fluorine.    All I wanna be
C#C#       C#/B   C#/A C#/G#
  is the very best machine  I can be
F# minorF#m   C#C#
Iodine,  iron, manganese
D#m/A#   B minorBm    D MajorD     C#C#
Molybdenum, nitrogen, selenium, silicon, tin
  D MajorD        F#dim/C
vanadium, and zinc.    All I wanna be
 B minorBm  C#C#  F# minorF#m
a molecular machine.