Destroyer Of The Void tab by Blitzen Trapper

Tabs

Song: Destroyer of the Void
Artist: Blitzen Trapper
Album: "Destroyer of the Void" [2010]

Tab by Devin Miller


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    |----------------------------|
    | PART 1 "The wayward Son" |
    |----------------------------|


Chord reference:

  F#F#
e|--3---0---2---0-----------1---2---0-----------2--|
BB|--0---1---3---1---3---2---1---0---0---2---4---2--|
G+G|--0---0---2---2---3---2---2---2---1---3---4---3--|
D MajorD|--0---2---0---2---3---2---3---1---2---x---4---4--|
A augmentedA|--2---3-------0---1---0---3---2---2---1---2---4--|
E MajorE|--3-----------------------1-------0---2-------2--|

Here's to the lone and wayward son!

                      C majorC
For to love is to live, for to roll like a rolling stone

 C majorC
I fell in with men who were wicked in the end

   C majorC
As we roll, by and by, so these crimes multiply

   E MajorE
Yeahhhhhhhh

D MajorD
See this wayward son, boy

A augmentedA
Will you live to run another dayyyyyyy

F#F#
Dark is the heart and dreams will come

    C majorC
To the swift and the dead, to the poor and the wayward son

  C majorC
My love can't you see, just what's happening to me

   C majorC
All I touch turns to sand slipping down through my hand

   E MajorE
Yeahhhhhhhh

    |-----------------------------|
    | PART 2 "Bird of the Void" |
    |-----------------------------|


Chord reference:

  BB
e|--0---4---2---2---0---0---3-------2---2---1---2-|
BB|--0---5---2---2---1---1---0---2---3---3---1---4-|
G+G|--1---6---2---2---2---0---0---3---4---2---2---4-|
D MajorD|--2---6---4---3---2---2---0---x---4---0---3---4-|
A augmentedA|--2---4---4---4---0---3---2---1---2-------3---2-|
E MajorE|--0-----------------------3---2-----------1-----|


C# minorC#m
I can see the future in your eyes

            F# minorF#m
Shining like a million skies

  G+G
Overall, overall, my petty crimes, I perpetrate

         F#7F#7
I know you should hate me

    G+G
But you celebrate me everytime I'm on your side

        D MajorD
My eyes open wide

     D MajorD
You just wing it like a bird, out over the void

      C majorC
And all my petty crimes and curses, they are destroyed

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G+G

          F#7F#7
I know you should hate me

    G+G
But you elevate me up into the stratosphere

       G+G
I no longer care that I am terrified, alright

            D MajorD
Yeah, but you are the cure

      C majorC
'Cuz all my petty crimes and curses, they disappear

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BB ----->

C# minorC#m
I can feel the future in your skin

              F# minorF#m
Catch the spirits as they spin

   G+G
All around, all around, my petty crimes, I perpetrate

         F#7F#7
I know you should hate me

    G+G
But you rearrange me comin' off the starting line

      D MajorD
A augmentedA hammer at wild

       D MajorD
But you just wing it like a bird, out over the void

      C majorC
And all my petty crimes and curses, they are destroyed

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BB ----->


    |----------------------------------|
    | PART 3 "The Serpent is Rising" |
    |----------------------------------|

Chord reference:

  E MajorE
e|--2---3---1---0---2-------6---4-------2---0---|
BB|--3---3---1---1---3---2---6---4-------2---0---|
G+G|--4---4---2---0---2---2---7---5---8---3---1---|
D MajorD|--4---5---3---2---0---2---8---6---8---4---2---|
A augmentedA|--2---5---3---3-------0---8---6---6---4---2---|
E MajorE|------3---1---3-----------6---4-------2---0---|


   G+G
Now a serpent spoke to me

    A augmentedA below lyrics)
He was hanging from a pale and nameless tree

     A augmentedA
On the blade, where the guys are all insane

  Bb majorBb
His voice was like the wind that blows

 Bb majorBb
A augmentedA thousand crows all rising into flight

     D MajorD
Upon the night, alright

Woah, look out! ---> (see Tab BB for solo and rhythm guitars)

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   G+G
So I left him in his tree

      A augmentedA
Score some horses, took the road that runs in circles to the sea

    A augmentedA
But the snake he followed me

   Bb majorBb
So I hopped a ship, a silver seed

   D#D#
Past galaxies and stars with speed

  E MajorE
To end this planet's world's a... void (sorry, hard to determine lyrics here)


**tab A:

e|-2---2-2-2--x-x---------------|
BB|-3---3-3-3--x-x-2---2-2-2-2-2-|
G+G|-2---2-2-2--x-x-2---2-2-2-2-2-|
D MajorD|-0---0-0-0--x-x-2---2-4-2-4-2-|
A augmentedA|----------------0---0-0-0-0-0-|
E MajorE|------------------------------|

**tab BB (rhythm chords written above solo):

  D MajorD
e|-------------------------------|-------------7b---7-4---4-------|
BB|-------------7b---7-4----------|----------------------7---7b-4~~|
G+G|-6br--4---4-----------6b-4---4-|-6br--4---4---------------------|
D MajorD|--------6------------------6---|--------6-----------------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------------------|--------------------------------| x2

  E MajorE
e|-------------------------|
BB|--------8br---------8br--|
G+G|-7b9~~~~5br---------5br--|
D MajorD|-5b7~~~~----7b9~~~~------|
A augmentedA|------------5b7~~~~------|
E MajorE|-------------------------| x3

e|--------------------------------------------------------|
BB|--------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|-------7------------7--------7----------7--------7------|
D MajorD|-7--5--7--7----5----7--7--5--7--7--5----7--7--5--7------|
A augmentedA|-7--5--5--7----5----5--7--5--5--7--5----5--7--5--5------|
E MajorE|-5--3-----5----3-------5--3-----5--3-------5--3---------|


       |---------------------|
       | PART 4 "Epilogue" |
       |---------------------|

Chord reference:

  BB
e|--0---0---3---2---2---2---0---0--------1---2----2-------2---|
BB|--0---1---0---2---3---3---2---1---6----1---0----3---2---4---|
G+G|--1---0---0---3---4---2---2---2---4----2---2----2---3---4---|
D MajorD|--2---2---0---4---4---0---2---2---3----3---1----0---x---4---|
A augmentedA|--2---3---2---4---2-------0---0---x----3---2----x---1---2---|
E MajorE|--0---3---3---2-------------------4----1--------2---2-------|


F#F#
Where will you go, when our love's gone?

     C majorC
When this world of ours is nothing more than a long lost song

   C majorC
This road that we run, is it where we both belong?

    C majorC
As the years disappear, will you wait for me here?

D MajorD

D MajorD
See this wayward son, boy

E MajorE
Will you live to run another dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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🏷Legend:

| b bend up
| br bend then release
| ~ vibrato
| x dead note