Burn chords by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:

Am  E   F  C  Dm (x2)


Eliza:

  Am                      E
I saved every letter you wrote me
F                  C
From the moment I read them
  Dm             Am
I knew you were mine
                   E
You said you were mine
                   F     C  Dm
I thought you were mine

Am                 E
Do you know what Angelica said
         F                     C       Dm
When we saw your first letter arrive?

She said

Am               E
“Be careful with that one, love
        F                      C
He will do what it takes to survive.”

Dm            Am               E
You and your words flooded my senses
      F                    C
Your sentences left me defenseless
Dm             Am             E
You built me palaces out of paragraphs
             F        C  Dm
You built cathedrals
         Am                     E
I’m re-reading the letters you wrote me
      F                          C
I’m searching and scanning for answers
    Dm    Am
In every line
                  E
For some kind of sign
                   F
And when you were mine

The world seemed to

C  Am  Em   F
Burn
C  Am  Em   F
Burn

     Am                        E
You published the letters she wrote you
    F                             C
You told the whole world how you brought
           Dm      Am
This girl into our bed
                 E                          F     C  Dm
In clearing your name, you have ruined our lives
Am                 E            F
Do you know what Angelica said
                          C     Dm
When she read what you’d done?
         Am
She said
                       E
“You have married an Icarus
        F                     C
He has flown too close to the sun.”

Dm            Am                        E
You and your words, obsessed with your legacy...
       F                    C
Your sentences border on senseless
Dm           Am                E
And you are paranoid in every paragraph
            F
How they perceive you

You, you, you…
     Am                      E
I’m erasing myself from the narrative
     F                  C         Dm
Let future historians wonder how Eliza
Am                        E
Reacted when you broke her heart
F
You have torn it all apart

I am watching it

C  Am  Em   F
Burn
            C   Am  Em   F
Watching it burn
                 G             C
The world has no right to my heart
                  Em
The world has no place in our bed
      Am                       F
They don’t get to know what I said
     G             C
I’m burning the memories
             Em                      Am
Burning the letters that might have redeemed you
      F           G           C
You forfeit all rights to my heart
                 Em
You forfeit the place in our bed
     Am                    F
You sleep in your office instead
      G         C
With only the memories
             Em       Am  F
Of when you were mine
                 Am  E   F  C  Dm  Am
I hope that you burn