Ghost – The Future Is A Foreign Land (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
Gm
Fifteen years from now

Dm
I know it feels remote

Eb              Bb
But picture it somehow

F
In your head

Gm
It's 1984

Dm
And knocking on your door

Eb                Bb
Is the Brownshirt Stasi guard

             F
Boom, you're gone

                        Eb       Bb
And in the blood of the Kennedys

   F               Dm
The good ones get shot

                        Eb       Bb
And in the absence of sympathies

           F
Won't you hear me out?
[Chorus]
        Gm         Eb
When it all burns down

        Bb         F
When it all burns down

        Gm         Eb                Bb
I will hold you close for the minute

             F
Yeah, I'll hold you for the minute it takes
[Verse 2]
Gm
Fifty-five years from now

Dm
I know it sounds insane

Eb                  Bb            F
The dark fascist regime might be gone (Might be gone)

                        Eb         Bb
Oh, if you by then havе forgiven me

      F             Dm
When push comеs to shove

                       Eb       Bb
We don't have to be enemies

           F
Won't you hear me out?
[Chorus]
        Gm          Eb
When it all burns down

        Bb         F
When it all burns down

        Gm        Eb                Bb
I will hold you close for the minute

        F
For the minute

        Eb         Gm        
When it all burns down

         Csus4 C  Ebm                     Bb
And the flames devour everything that we are

        F                     Eb
I will hold you for the minute

        Ebm                              Bb
I will hold you for the minute it takes
[Bridge] (Strum once)
Gm
With these words at hand

Dm                F
The future is a foreign land

   Eb                       Bb    F
So let us pray for more in 2024
(Muted eight note pattern)
Gm                          Dm
(2024) We could grow old together

                            Eb
(2024) We could love one another

     Bb                             F     F6    F7
(2024) And there will from then be peace forevermore (Forever)

G     G6    G7
Peace forevermore (And forever)
[Chorus] (Return to normal strum pattern)
G          Am        F
But if it all burns down

       C         G
If it all burns down

        Am        F                  C
I will hold you close for the minute

             G
For the minute

       F         Am
If it all burns down

         Dsus4 D  Fm                      C
And the flames devour everything that we are

         G                  F
I will hold you for the minute

        Fm                         Am
I will hold you for the minute it takes