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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) 🎸 Intro: G (4x) G GM7 G7 Cadd9 (2x) 🎸 Verse: G GM7 The air is visible around you, rising up and off your lips G7 Cadd9 In slow currents, and I watch as your face is framed in its G GM7 Slow currents, drifting curls, a trailing path G7 Cadd9 G A long drag becomes a tress of blue and ash 🎸 Chorus: Cadd9 Em7 If it is born in flames, then we should let it burn Cadd9 G Burn as brightly as we can Cadd9 Em7 And if it’s got to end, then let it end in flames Cadd9 G Let it burn all the way down
🎸 Verse: G The air is visceral around us GM7 G7 Turning in its simple steps on slow currents Cadd9 G GM7 G7 And I watch as it pirouettes and spins in slow motion Cadd9 Em7 A long drag becomes a slow dance Cadd9 G In a halo of ember 🎸 Chorus: Cadd9 Em7 If it is born in flames, then we should let it burn Cadd9 G Burn as brightly as we can Cadd9 Em7 And if it’s got to end, then let it end in flames Cadd9 Am7 F# Let it burn all the way down 🎸 Bridge: G All the way down F# And if this is ever meant to end G Then I hope it ends where it began F# So hot with love, we burned our hands G If this is ever meant to end F# Then I hope it ends where it began Cadd9 Am7 F# G So hot with love, it burns our hands 🎸 Chorus: Cadd9 Em7 If it is born in flames, then we should let it burn Cadd9 G Burn as brightly as we can Cadd9 Em7 And if it’s got to end, then let it end in flames Cadd9 G Let it burn Cadd9 (Let it burn) 🎸 Outro: Em7 If it’s got to end Cadd9 (Let it burn) G If it’s got to end Cadd9 (Let it burn) Em7 It ends where it began Cadd9 Am7 G So hot with love, it burns our hands 🎸 Outro: G
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