Burning Bridges Breaking Hearts tab by Arcade Fire

Tabs

Tabbed by: Schimdt
Email: [email protected]

Any corrections, send them my way.

Great song from Arcade Fires Funeral period (best period imo). Been bothering myself
over the fact that there was no tab for this, so I went ahead and gave it a shot.

Standard tuning, no capo

In this song, both Win and Rich are on guitars, so I'll write down their chords together
and mark the chords played by Rich with a * at the end of them. Those who are without
that symbol are played by win. Simple enough.

Intro:

Let all these chords ring except for the regular C. Just do some down strokes on it.
(Listen to the song, you'll get it)

AbAb
C majorC

Verse:

For the first to verses let the chords ring as well, except for the C.

In the background the violin plays a high pitch C majorC and sliding ut to C#C# at the end of
each line. (Again listen in and you'll here it)

C#C#
C#*
 Burning bridges, breaking hearts
         AbAb
         Ab*
 Everything you taught us to do
C#C#
C#*
 We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts
           C majorC
           C*
 No home to come home to


C#C#
C#*
 We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts
          AbAb
          Ab*
 I won't look you in the eye
C#C#
C#*
 And burning bridges, breaking hearts
         C majorC
         C*
 Caught you in a friendship lie

AbAb
Ab*
(These chords are played at the same time by Win and Rich, you don't need to let these
ring if you dont want to. In the song they strum them)


(Let these chords ring)
C#*
 Took a visit, to your old house
            Ab*
 The windows were all boarded up
C#*
 Try to hold these, memories
        C*
 The ocean in a paper cup

C#C#
C#*
 There's no future in this town
           AbAb
           Ab*
 They barricade the buildings there
C#C#
C#*
 To the lion, you've been cast
        C majorC
        C*
 Only bones are gonna last


Chorus (Or some such):

Both guitars play this. The whole thing is tremolo picked. For the most accurate sound,
make sure to slide between the notes:

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|--16--------9--8---115----7--5----16------9-8---15---11-12-13--------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

It ends on AbAb and then goes back into the verse chords. Like so (Again, this verse is
only played by Rich, chords ring):

C#*
 There's a city, underground
         Ab*
 There's a city made of glass
C#*
 There's a city, underground
          C majorC
          C*
 Hurry cause it's breaking fast


C#C#
C#*
 We're burning bridges, breaking hearts
         AbAb
         Ab*
 Everything you taught us to do
C#C#
C#*
 We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts
           C majorC
           C*
 No home to come home to


FF
F*
 We're burning bridges, breaking hearts
FF
F*
 We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts
C#C#
C#*
 We're burning bridges, breaking hearts
         C majorC
         C*
 Breaking hearts


Here the song goes into a new chorus like thing. Where both guitars paly the following
in tremolo picking:

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|--19---9-8--15--11---6--5--10-9--------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

That repeats while Win sings first verse over it.