This song features two guitars, the one you hear first is in normal tuning, and the louder
acoustic that comes in as shown below is in drop D tuning. I'm pretty terrible at working out
lyrics, but these would be pretty close.
Guitar One only...
AmD
The road falls gently from the modern gun
AmD
theres motion in the mystery of your face
AmD
a lion crawls slowly in the modern sun
AmD
theres motion in the history of your grace
Second guitar comes in, playing power chords with drop D tuning.
NB: The power chords actually go more like AmGAm and then to D. Very easy to hear if you play
along.
Am
in the modern station
D
in the modern stone
AmD
in the modern talk you hate
Am
in the modern planet
D
in the modern sun
AmD
in the modern bowl you shave
Guitar 2 (drop D tuning)
first guitar fill
e:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
B:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
G:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
D:-0----2--------------0---2-----0-4b/\--0---2--------------0---2---0-----------
A:-0--0---0-3-0-5-5-3--0-0---0-3---------0-0---0-3-0-5-5-3--0-0---0-0-----------
D:-0-------------------0-----------------0------------------0-------0-----------
AmD
the sun crawls slowly in the eastern sky
AmD
theres motion in the mystery of your fate
AmD
the clouds fall softly once the kingdom drowns
AmD
theres motion in the history of your state
Am
and your sisters curses
D
waking up
AmG
and the modern drugs you take
CA7/sus4/6
it's all in a file
AmF
they pull you over
DAm
it's really over now they
FA7/sus4/6
think they know your name
AmC
it's falling apart
FD
from everyone
AmGFG
she dreams into my head
she dreams into my head
Guitar Two: second guitar fill
Play this riff repeatedly under trumpet solo, then finish on an open D power chord.
e:----------------------
B:----------------------
G:-----0---0h2-0--------
D:---2-----------2------
A:-0--------------------
D:-------3--------------
the sun falls gently from the modern gun
theres motion in the mystery of your hate
a line bends slowly when the hero runs
the middle of the east is in flames
in the modern power
in the modern thumb
in the modern fool you shape
in the final painting, hanging up
in the modern war you wage
CHORUS: repeat as above
If you have any questions or comments feel free to email me.
jamesmilsom@hotmail.com