Arcade Fire – Burning Bridges Breaking Hearts (Guitar)
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Tabbed by: Schimdt
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Great song from Arcade Fire's Funeral period (best period imo). Been bothering myself
over the fact that there was no tab for this, so I went ahead and gave it a shot.
In this song, both Win and Rich are on guitars. I marked where only Rich is playing.
Intro:
Let all these chords ring except for the regular C. Just do some down strokes on it.
(Listen to the song, you'll get it)
Ab Fm Db Ab
Ab Fm Db C
Verse:
For the first to verses let the chords ring as well, except for the C.
In the background the violin plays a high pitch C and sliding ut to Db at the end of
each line. (Again listen in and you'll here it)
Ab Fm Db Burning bridges, breaking hearts Ab Everything you taught us to do Ab Fm Db We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts C No home to come home to Ab Fm Db We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts Ab I won't look you in the eye Ab Fm Db And burning bridges, breaking hearts C Caught you in a friendship lie
Ab Fm Db Ab
(This verse is only played by Rich. Let these chords ring)
Ab Fm Db Took a visit, to your old house Ab The windows were all boarded up Ab Fm Db Try to hold these, memories C The ocean in a paper cup Ab Fm Db There's no future in this town Ab They barricade the buildings there Ab Fm Db To the lion, you've been cast C Only bones are gonna last
Chorus (Or some such):
Both guitars play this. The whole thing is tremolo picked. For the most accurate sound,
make sure to slide between the notes:
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|--16--------9--8---11-5----7--5----16------9-8---15---11-12-13-------------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
It ends on Ab and then goes back into the verse chords. Like so (Again, this verse is
only played by Rich, chords ring):
Ab Fm Db There's a city, underground Ab There's a city made of glass Ab Fm Db There's a city, underground C Hurry cause it's breaking fast Ab Fm Db We're burning bridges, breaking hearts Ab Everything you taught us to do Ab Fm Db We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts C No home to come home to Ab Fm We're burning bridges, breaking hearts Ab Fm We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts Ab Fm Db We're burning bridges, breaking hearts C Breaking hearts
Here the song goes into a new chorus like thing, where both guitars play the following
in tremolo picking:
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|--19---9-8--15--11---6--5--10-9--------------------------------------------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
That repeats while Win sings first verse over it.
Song ends on Abm