Rainbow Signs chords by MewithoutYou

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: A minorAm

Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:

A minorAm
Pale horse songs of a slow decline
FF
Sideshow words if the songs don't mind
C majorC
G-d gave Noah the rainbow sign
FF
No more water, is the H-Bomb next time?
A minorAm
Pale horse vows in a grave I-do-yes-definitely reply
FF
Smile for the camera at a 'church' nearby
C majorC
Threw a mute curse at the Boise sky
    FF
For my fucked up Napoleon-of-St.-Helena-hairline
A minorAm
Black horse leaping when the frogs withdrew
  FF
The parable of the plums where the olives grew
C majorC
Clouded rearrangement of sounds we knew:
  FF
An Idaho sunset for my own private Waterloo
A minorAm
Pale horse songs of a slow decline
FF
Side show words if our moms don't mind:
C majorC
Cloud gave no one a rainbow sign--
FF
Six-point starred ink flag next time?


Instrumental:

A minorAm FF C majorC FF x2
(End with one strum on A minorAm until Aaron starts singing the Hebrew/Arabic verse)


Verse 2: (read from right to left)

FF   C majorC   FF  A minorAm  FF   C majorC   FF   A minorAm
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Instrumental:

A minorAm FF C majorC FF x2


Verse 3:

    A minorAm
With imperial crowns we were 'sent'
      FF
Riding out conquest-bent

Daylight is breaking
C majorC
Wielding the sanctified sword
          FF
For the army of the Scarecrow Lord

Daylight is breaking
A minorAm
Balancing scales at our feet
       FF
Measuring out two pounds of barley, six pounds of buckwheat
C majorC
Beasts of the Battersea Shield
           FF
At the opening of the fourth seal
  A minorAm
The sky, I'd been told

Would roll up like a scroll
    FF
As the mountains and islands moved from their place
    C majorC
And the sun would turn black

As a dead raven's back
      FF
But there's nowhere to hide

From the Judge's face
      A minorAm
After which message-less birds take flight without cause
    FF
To the silence they've heard in the absence of laws
  C majorC                 C majorC FF
Or imperial crowns: Unsent, unsigned


Verse 4:

A minorAm
The other night I dreamt I was finally out of college
   FF
In my own pair of sandals, I had turned into my father
C majorC
Whistling our tune about the Rio Grande
    FF
Like an anchorite in June I took hold of my own hand
  A minorAm
And started on the Abrahamic joke we knew
   FF
About apostrophes and pronouns and you-remember-who
      C majorC
"But let's keep that silly punchline between me and you
FF
Little Haroon
             A minorAm
And the man in the moon."


Outro: (one strum per chord)

A minorAm FF C majorC FF
A minorAm