Iron Maiden – Brighter Than A Thousand Suns (Guitar)

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[Intro] E E E E F# G B C

E  E E   D  F# G  B  C
2X

[Verse 1]

E
We are not the sons of God

E
We are not his chosen people now

E
We have crossed the path he trod

E
We will feel the pain of his beginning

E
Shadow fingers rise above

E
Iron fingers stab the desert sky

E
Oh behold the power of man

E
On its tower, ready for the fall

E E E E F# G B C

E  E E   D  F# G  B  C
2X

[Verse 2]

E
Knocking heads together well

E
Raise a city, build a living hell

E
Join the race to suicide

E
Listen for the tolling of the bell

E E E E F# G B C E E E D F# G B C [Chorus]

C             A
 Out of the universe

     G             F
A strange love is born

C       A
 Unholy union

  G        F
Trinity reformed

E E E E F# G B C E E E D F# G B C [Verse 3]

E
Yellow sun its evil twin

E
In the black the wings deliver him

E
We will split our souls within

E
Atom seed to nuclear dust is riven

E E E E F# G B C E E E D F# G B C [Chorus]

C             A
 Out of the universe

     G             F
A strange love is born

C       A
 Unholy union

  G        F
Trinity reformed

E  C  A  F
2X

[Chorus]

E            C
 Out of the darkness

           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns

E            C
 Out of the darkness

           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns

E            C
 Out of the darkness

           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns

E            C
 Out of the darkness

           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns

E            C
 Out of the darkness

           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns

E            C
 Out of the darkness

           A              F
Brighter than a thousand suns

[Solo]

E  C  A  B  C  G  F#  E
4X

E  C  A  F
2X

[Bridge]

E                     C
Bury your morals and bury your dead

 A                     F
Bury your head in the sand

E              C
E=MC squared, you can relate

 A                        F
How we made God with our hands

E  C  D
2X

  E                         C
Whatever would Robert have said to his God

  A                             F
About how we made war with the sun

E              C
E=MC squared, you can relate

 A                        F
How we made God with our hands

[Verse 4]

E                 C     D
 All nations are rising

E              C        D        E
 Through acid veils of love and hate

E                  C     D  E
 Chain letters of Satan

E             C        D       E
 Uncertainty leads us all to this

A                 F
 All nations are rising

        A                       F
Through acid veils of love and hate

A                 F
 Cold fusion and fury

B E (Initial Riff) E E E E F# G B C

E  E E   D  F# G  B  C
2X

[Verse 5]

E
Divide and conquer while ye may

E
Others preach and others fall and pray

E
In the bunkers where we'll die

E
Where the executioners they lie

E E E E F# G B C E E E D F# G B C

E
Bombers launch with no recall

E
Minutes warning of the missile fall

E
Take a look at your last sky

E
Guessing you won't have the time to cry

E E E E F# G B C E E E D F# G B C [Chorus]

C             A
 Out of the universe

     G             F
A strange love is born

C       A
 Unholy union

  G        F
Trinity reformed

E C A F [Chorus]

E            C         A    F
 Out of the darkness

E            C         A    F
 Out of the darkness

E            C
 Out of the darkness

           A      B       C   G  F#  E
Brighter than a thousand suns

E            C
 Out of the darkness

           A      B       C   G  F#  E
Brighter than a thousand suns

E            C
 Out of the darkness

           A      B       C   G  F#  E
Brighter than a thousand suns

E            C
 Out of the darkness

           A      B       C   G  F#  E
Brighter than a thousand suns

E            C
 Out of the darkness

           A      B       C   G  F#  E
Brighter than a thousand suns

E (Initial Riff) Holy Father we have sinned