Bang chords by Tori Amos

Verse 1:

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

Verse 2:

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


Chorus:

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


Bridge:

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


Verse 3:

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


Chorus:

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


Bridge:

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


Outro:

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


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



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