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Burn Acoustic Ukulele by Mariah Rose Faith

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Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
  F#m                     E
I saved every letter you wrote me
D                  A/C#
From the moment I read them
   Bm           F#m
I knew you were mine
                   E
You said you were mine
                    D   A/C#  Bm
I thought you were mine

F#m                 E
Do you know what Angelica said
         D                       A/C#   Bm
When we saw your first letter arrive?

She said
F#m                  E
    Be careful with that one, love
        D                       A/C#
He will do what it takes to survive

Pre-Chorus:
Bm            F#m              E
You and your words flooded my senses
      D                    A/C#
Your sentences left me defenseless
Bm           F#m             E
You built me palaces out of paragraphs
             D       A/C#  Bm
You built cathedrals

      F#m                      E
I’m rereading the letters you wrote me
     D                          A/C#
I’m searching and scanning for answers
   Bm     F#m
In every line
                  E
For some kind of sign
                 D
And when you were mine

Chorus:

The world seemed
A           F#m
   To burn
A           F#m
Burn

Verse 2:
    F#m                        E
You published the letters she wrote you
     D
You told the whole world
          A/C#
How you brought this girl
Bm       F#m
Into our bed
                      E
And in clearing your name
                     D     A/C#  Bm
You have ruined our lives
F#m                     E
    Do you know what Angelica said
D                           A/C#  Bm
  When she read what you’d done?

She said
F#m                     E
    You have married an Icarus
        D                      A/C#
He has flown too close to the sun

Verse 3:
Bm           F#m                       E
You and your words obsessed with your legacy
      D                   A/C#
Your sentences border on senseless
Bm          F#m                E
And you are paranoid in every paragraph
             D        N.C.
How they perceive you

You, you, you

Verse 4:
     F#m                     E
I’m erasing myself from the narrative
     D                 A/C#
Let future historians wonder
     Bm     F#m
How Eliza reacted
                  E
When you broke her heart

Chorus:
D                      A/C#
  You’ve torn it all apart
     Bm
I’m watching it
A      F#m
  Burn

Watching it
A      F#m
  Burn

Outro:
                              A
The world has no right to my heart
                  C#
The world has no place in our bed
     F#m7
They don’t get to know what I said
     E           A
I’m burning the memories
            C#
Burning the letters
                  F#m7
That might have redeemed you

                             A
You forfeit all right to my heart
                 C#
You forfeit the place in our bed
        F#m7
You’ll sleep in your office instead
     E         A
With only the memories
     E         A
With only the memories
                 F#m
Of when you were mine, mine, mine

I hope that you
F#m       A
     Burn