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Track 2. NINE ON THE BORTLE
*This chord sheet is a transcription nearly exactly from http://daysndaze.com/lyricsnchords
any chords followed by an (*) are not original chords, but ones I use when playing and may be omitted
MUSIC BREAKS: Am F C G Am C F G
VERSES: 1 2 & 4:: Am Am C G
VERSE 3:: Am F C G
CHORUS 1:: Am F C G Am F C G C E
CHORUS 2:: Am F C G
BRIDGE:: Am F C G
Intro:
Am (x4)
Am F
Smoke clouds have thickened
C G
to black out the stars
Am C
the night sky is lit now
F G
by headlights of cars
Am F
and the moon holds no purpose
C G Am F G G
but pulling the tides anymore
Instrumental: (x2) Am F C G Am C F G Verse 1: Am Blow out the candles Am blow out the candles C throw on the light switch G Am and bask in the fluorescent glow Am we’re guided by satellites C we don’t need stars anymore G can’t see stars anymore Chorus 1: Am F With a nine on the bortle C G we’ve blown out the stars Am F smashed all the lanterns C G to burn down the barns Am F and with less than one hundredth C G Dm* in sight to guide us home after dark Em Em we’re lost Instrumental: Am F C G Am C F G Am F C G C E Verse 2: Am The streetlights have killed them Am the street lights have killed them C G we’ve laid to rest gods in a tomb born of city lights Am and out in the flatlands Am we thought that we’d found them C but still the horizon G did glow like a brush fire Chorus 2: Am F With a nine on the bortle C G we’ve blown out the stars Am F smashed all the lanterns C G to burn down the barns Am F and the moon holds no purpose C C G save pulling the tides on a planet G Dm * encrusted in fluorescent lights Instrumental: Am F C G Am C F G Am F C G C E Accelerando Bridge: Am F Smoke clouds have thickened C G to black out the stars Am C the night sky is lit now F G by headlights of cars Am F and the moon holds no purpose C G Am F G G but pulling the tides anymore Instrumental: Am F C G Am C F G Am F C G C E Verse 3: Am F 300 miles we’d sail off the coast C G to be reunited with the skies of our hosts Am and at night soon the rivers F C G reflect nothing more than the moon Chorus 1: Am F With a nine on the bortle C G we’ve blown out the stars Am F smashed all the lanterns C G to burn down the barns Am F and with less than one hundredth C G Dm * in sight to guide us home after dark Em Em we’re lost Instrumental: Am F C G Am C F G Am F C G C E Verse 4: Am Am 300 miles 300 miles C out into the ocean G we’d sail to remember them Am Em Em Em * Am Em Em Em * C G 300 miles out into the ocean we’d sail Chorus 2: Am F With a nine on the bortle C G we’ve blown out the stars Am F smashed all the lanterns C G to burn down the barns Am F and the moon holds no purpose C C G save pulling the tides on a planet G Dm * encrusted in fluorescent lights Bridge: Am F C G Am F C G Chorus 1: Am F With a nine on the bortle C G we’ve blown out the stars Am F smashed all the lanterns C G to burn down the barns Am F and with less than one hundredth C G Dm * in sight to guide us home after dark Em Em we’re lost CHORUS 1: + VERSE 1: (Sung over each other) Am F C G Am F C G Am F C G Dm * Em Em CHORUS 1: + CHORUS 2: (Sung over each other) Am F C G Am F C G Am F C G Dm * Em Em CHORUS 1: + CHORUS 2: + VERSE 2: (Sung over each other) Am F C G Am F C G Am F C G Dm *
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