Achilles Come Down tab by Gang Of Youths

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Cello Intro:

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D|----------2---0---2-----|---------2---0---2-----|---------2---0---2-----|---------2---0---2----|
A|--0---3---------------3-|-0---3---------------3-|-----3---------------3-|-----3---------------3|
E|------------------------|-----------------------|-3---------------------|-3--------------------|

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D|----------2---0---2-----|---------2---0---2-----|---------0-------0-----|---------2---0---2----|
A|--0---3---------------3-|-0---3---------------3-|-----2-------2-------2-|-----2---------------3|
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Intro Chords:
Am C Am G E

Verse 1:
  Am        G         C             Am
Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down
          Am          G               Am     Em
Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?
        Am            G          Am         Em
You’re scaring us and all of us, some of us love you
 Am                G                C
Achilles, it’s not much but there’s proof
    Am         G           C           Am
You crazy-ass cosmonaut, remember your virtue
  Am            G          C
Redemption lies plainly in truth
     Am         G         C             Am
Just humor us, Achilles, Achilles, come down
          Am          G              Am
Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?


French language sample:
(2x) Am C Am G E

Verse 2:
 Am         G         C            Am
Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down
           Am          G             C
Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?
     Am            G               C           Am
The self is not so weightless, nor whole and unbroken
  Am         G           C
Remember the pact of our youth
      Am          G         Am           Em
Where you go, I’m going, so jump and I’m jumping
      Am          G         Am    Em
Since there is no me without you
Am           G          C            Am
Soldier on, Achilles, Achilles, come down
          Am          G              Am
Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?


Pre-Chorus:
Am         G              C          Am
Loathe the way they light candles in Rome
    Am              G         Am
But love the sweet air of the votives
Am       G                C       Dm
Hurt and grieve but don’t suffer alone
Am              G         F
Engage with the pain as a motive


Chorus:
  Fm         C     Am
Today of all days, see
E            F         G           C
How the most dangerous thing is to love
E            F               G    C
How you will heal and you’ll rise above


French language sample:
Am C Am G E

Verse 3:
 Am        G         C             Am
Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, jump now
        Am        G          C
You are absent of cause or excuse
Am         G          Am        G
So self-indulgent and self-referential
   Am             Em        Am    Em
No audience could ever want you
    Am           G         C          Am
You crave the applause yet hate the attention
     Am            G        C
Then miss it, your act is a ruse
      Am      G           C          Am
It is empty, Achilles, so end it all now
       Am           Em          Am    Em
It's a pointless resistance for you


French language sample:
(2x) Am C Am G E

Verse 4:
 Am         G            C            Am
Achilles, Achilles, just put down the bottle
      Am        G               C
Don’t listen to what you’ve consumed
     Am         G          C        Am
It’s chaos, confusion, and wholly unworthy
    Am              Em        Am   Em
Of feeding and it’s wholly untrue
    Am          G             C           Am
You may feel no purpose nor a point for existing
     Am          G            C
It’s all just conjecture and gloom
      Am         G           C             Am
There may not be meaning, so find one and seize it
   Am             Em          Am    Em
Do not waste yourself on this roof


Pre-Chorus:
Am         G          C           Am
Hear those bells ring deep in the soul
Am       G         Am
Chiming away for a moment
Am        G             C         Dm
Feel your breath course frankly below
    Am        G        F
See life as a worthy opponent


Chorus:
  Fm         C     Am
Today of all days, see
E            F         G           C
How the most dangerous thing is to love
E            F        G           C
How you will heal and you’ll rise above
E             F        G        C
Crowned by an overture bold and beyond
E7            F         G       C
Ah, it’s more courageous to overcome


French language sample:
Am

Verse 5:
    C                               Em
You want the acclaim, the mother of mothers
                                    Em         Am
                          (It’s not worth it, Achilles)
     Am                                  E
More poignant than fame or the taste of another
                                         E        C
                                  (Don’t listen, Achilles)
   C                                   Em
Be real and just jump, you dense motherfucker
                                       Em           Am
                               (You’re worth more, Achilles)
         Am                            E
You will not be more than a rat in the gutter
                                       E           C
                              (So much more than a rat)
     C                                 Em
You want my opinion, my opinion you’ve got
                                       Em
                    (No one asked your opinion)
    Am                                  E
You asked for my counsel, I gave you my thoughts
                                                E
                         (No one asked for your thoughts)
   C                      Dm
Be done with this now and jump off the roof

(Be done with this now and get off the roof)
        Am                     E7         C (032013)
Can you hear me, Achilles? I’m talking to you


Bridge:
    Dm         Am
I’m talking to you

    Am      F
I’m talking to you
     F      Fm
I’m talking to you
 Fm            C
Achilles, come down
 C             Dm
Achilles, come down

Quartet:
F C F C

French language sample:
(2x) Am C Am G E

Pre-Chorus:
Am        G      C        Am
Throw yourself into the unknown
       Am         G      Am
With a pace and a fury defiant
Am         G       C        Dm
Clothe yourself in beauty untold
        Am        G          F
And see life as a means to a triumph


Chorus:
 Fm           C     Am
Today of all days, see
E            F         G           C
How the most dangerous thing is to love
E            F               G     C
How you will heal and you’ll rise above
E             F        G          C
Crowned by an overture bold and beyond
E7             F        G       C
Ah, it’s more courageous to overcome