Prometheus bass tab by The Mechanisms

Tuning: Standard (E A D G)

Intro:

  Welcome back, punks and rebels, you're listening to Radio Free Ilium, broadcasting whenever we can on
whatever
  frequencies we can hack. Let's start with a song for the haters out there who, uh, polish Olympian Spears.
  The government may say he's a crook, but we know who the real crooks are.
  You all know this one: it's Prometheus by TLS!

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Verse 1:

  Five years into the Ilium war the city built a firewall
  That cut us from their urban sprawl and kept the signal out
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  The barricades they’d tried and failed, their green recruits our men had nailed
  But without the wireless beat of life we were finally cut off
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Bridge:
          But then one man broke through
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          Found a way to aid our righteous coup
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Chorus:

  Prometheus, the hero who let us hold off the horde
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  Prometheus, who proved the keyboard’s mightier than the sword
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  Prometheus, he gave his life to keep our spirits strong
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  When we pass into the Acheron             We’ll be singing out his song
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Instrumental:

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Verse 2:

  Our homes were burned and blighted shells their military had overwhelmed
  The movements of their soldiers now were veiled beyond our sight
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  Without a word he gave us all the data that could bring their fall
  He didn’t ask for accolades and didn’t name a price
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Bridge:
          He gave us hope, on that night
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          The lonely chance that kept us in the fight
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Chorus:

  Prometheus, the hero who let us hold off the horde
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  Prometheus, who proved the keyboard’s mightier than the sword
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  Prometheus, he gave his life to keep our spirits strong
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  When we pass into the Acheron              We’ll be singing out his song
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Instrumental:

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Verse 3:

  After what he did, Olympus couldn’t turn a blind eye
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  They’d lost so many soldiers he surely had to die
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  They snatched him from his lair before he said his last goodbye
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  And they cracked down on his followers and set his world alight
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Bridge:
          But the legacy he left us means the gods we will defy
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          And even as our homeland dies we scream his battle cry!
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Chorus:

  Prometheus, the hero who let us hold off the horde
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  Prometheus, who proved the keyboard’s mightier than the sword
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  Prometheus, he gave his life to keep our spirits strong
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  When we pass into the Acheron              We’ll be singing out his song
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