Brighter Than A Thousand Suns chords by Iron Maiden

🤘 Intro:
E  E E   E  F# G  B  C
E  E E   D  F# G  B  C
2X



🤘 Verse 1:
E
We are not the sons of God
E
We are not his chosen people now
E
We have crossed the path he trod
E
We will feel the pain of his beginning

E
Shadow fingers rise above
E
Iron fingers stab the desert sky
E
Oh behold the power of man
E
On its tower, ready for the fall

E  E E   E  F# G  B  C
E  E E   D  F# G  B  C
2X

🤘 Verse 2:
E
Knocking heads together well
E
Raise a city, build a living hell
E
Join the race to suicide
E
Listen for the tolling of the bell

E  E E   E  F# G  B  C
E  E E   D  F# G  B  C

🤘 Chorus:
C             A
 Out of the universe
     G             F
A strange love is born
C       A
 Unholy union
  G        F
Trinity reformed

E  E E   E  F# G  B  C
E  E E   D  F# G  B  C

🤘 Verse 3:
E
Yellow sun its evil twin
E
In the black the wings deliver him
E
We will split our souls within
E
Atom seed to nuclear dust is riven

E  E E   E  F# G  B  C
E  E E   D  F# G  B  C

🤘 Chorus:
C             A
 Out of the universe
     G             F
A strange love is born
C       A
 Unholy union
  G        F
Trinity reformed


E  C  A  F
2X

🤘 Chorus:
E            C
 Out of the darkness
           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns
E            C
 Out of the darkness
           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns
E            C
 Out of the darkness
           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns
E            C
 Out of the darkness
           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns
E            C
 Out of the darkness
           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns
E            C
 Out of the darkness
           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns

🤘 Solo:
E  C  A  B  C  G  F#  E
4X

E  C  A  F
2X

🤘 Bridge:
E                     C
Bury your morals and bury your dead
 A                     F
Bury your head in the sand
E              C
E=MC squared, you can relate
 A                        F
How we made God with our hands

E  C  D
2X

  E                         C
Whatever would Robert have said to his God
  A                             F
About how we made war with the sun
E              C
E=MC squared, you can relate
 A                        F
How we made God with our hands

🤘 Verse 4:
E                 C     D
 All nations are rising
E              C        D        E
 Through acid veils of love and hate
E                  C     D  E
 Chain letters of Satan
E             C        D       E
 Uncertainty leads us all to this
A                 F
 All nations are rising
        A                       F
Through acid veils of love and hate
A                 F
 Cold fusion and fury

B

E (Initial Riff)

E  E E   E  F# G  B  C
E  E E   D  F# G  B  C
2X

🤘 Verse 5:
E
Divide and conquer while ye may
E
Others preach and others fall and pray
E
In the bunkers where we'll die
E
Where the executioners they lie

E  E E   E  F# G  B  C
E  E E   D  F# G  B  C

E
Bombers launch with no recall
E
Minutes warning of the missile fall
E
Take a look at your last sky
E
Guessing you won't have the time to cry

E  E E   E  F# G  B  C
E  E E   D  F# G  B  C

🤘 Chorus:
C             A
 Out of the universe
     G             F
A strange love is born
C       A
 Unholy union
  G        F
Trinity reformed

E    C    A     F

🤘 Chorus:
E            C         A    F
 Out of the darkness
E            C         A    F
 Out of the darkness
E            C
 Out of the darkness
           A      B       C   G  F#  E
Brighter than a thousand suns
E            C
 Out of the darkness
           A      B       C   G  F#  E
Brighter than a thousand suns
E            C
 Out of the darkness
           A      B       C   G  F#  E
Brighter than a thousand suns
E            C
 Out of the darkness
           A      B       C   G  F#  E
Brighter than a thousand suns
E            C
 Out of the darkness
           A      B       C   G  F#  E
Brighter than a thousand suns


E (Initial Riff)

Holy Father we have sinned