Car Seat Headrest – The Colossus (Guitar Solo)

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Chords

[Intro] Riff 1
N.C.
e|-------------------------------------|
B|--10--10-10--8-10-10--12-10-8-5------| x4
G|-------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------|
[Verse 1] (from here on out all E5 are played on the 7th fret unless marked with an asterisk)
E5                     E5
New York is losing its vantage

            E5
Into the Atlantic

               E5       D5  E5
The punishment of your midwives

                       E5
Service for brick and mortar

               E5
Your temple of empire

                E5            D5       D5
Your purchasing power is your right to survive

                    D5
What else could be expected?

           C5
Someone is sending

            B5      A5      E5*
Something unknown into our lives
(Riff 1) x2 [Verse 2]
 E5                  E5
Far from the storied fables

                E5
The voice of an angel

            E5             D5     E5
Sends the strong into a terrored state

 E5                    E5
She holds the sword of anger

                   E5
And the face of a stranger

         E5            D5      D5
Can you trust hеr to know the way?

                         D5
Don’t bother setting thе table

        C5
Eat in haste now

          B5        A5        E5*
Mark the lintel and lock the door
(Riff 1) [Chorus] E
   E        B      A
Tonight I cry, I cry alone

 A                 G       E
Weak and huddled, far from home

          E      B      A
As the colossus falls into the sea

          A                  G       E
With the light she held for you and me
[Solo] (Ethan plays a fairly complex solo over the verse chord progression:) E5 D5 E5 E5 D5 D5 D5 C5 B5 A5 E5 (Riff 1 x2) [Verse 3]
E5                  E5
Never a time quite like this

                 E5
The language of lightning

            E5       D5    E5
Is never before and never again

E5                  E5
And if the heart is harder

                 E5
The greater the power

             E5         D5         D5
All of his chariots and all of his men

             D5
Stilled and silent

               C5
The ending of violence

         B5        A5  E
Someone turned the TV off
[Chorus] E B A G E x4
 E        B      A
Tonight alone, alone I cry

 A               G      E
Dying because I didn’t die

            E      B     A
When the colossus fell into the sea

              A                  G      E
She took the lightning bolt for you and me

     E               B      A
How many times she tried before

     A                  G     E
To lead us where there was no war

     E             B     A
Where night could not eclipse the day

 A                 G    E
How many times we fell away
[Outro] N.C. (Riff 1) x4