Joy Division – The Eternal (Guitar)

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Chords

Album: Closer (1980) Play with clean sound and reverb. [Intro]
(synth noises)
(bass riff 1) x4
e|------------------------|
B|------------------------|
G|------------------------|
D|------------------------|
A|------------------------|
E|-5----5----5----5-3-2-0-|    x4

(piano riff 1) x2
e|------------------------------|
B|----1--3----1----1-0---0-1--3-|
G|-2----------------------------|
D|------------------------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------|

(piano riff 2)
e|-20--19--20-17---20--19--20-17---20--19--17--15--17--19-|
B|--------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------|
(piano riff 1) [Verse 1]
Am                                   G
Procession moves on, the shouting is over

F                G                      Am
  Praise to the glory of loved ones now gone

                                         G
Talking aloud as they sit round their tables

F               G                       Am
  Scattering flowers washed down by the rain

                                        G
Stood by the gate at the foot of the garden

F                G                      Am
  Watching them pass like clouds in the sky

                                    G
Try to cry out in the heat of the moment

F                 G                     Am
  Possessed by a fury that burns from inside

[Interlude]
(bass riff 2)
e|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|
D|-------2-----2---2---2---|
A|-0--0------0-------0---0-|
E|-------------------------|    x3
(bass riff 1) x5 (bass riff 2) x2 (piano riff 1) x2 (piano riff 2) x1 [Verse 2]
Am                                             G
Cry like a child, though these years make me older

F                   G                     Am
  With children my time is so wastefully spent

                                         G
A burden to keep, though their inner communion

F                G               Am
  Accept like a curse an unlucky deal

                                         G
Played by the gate at the foot of the garden

F                   G                         Am
  My view stretches out from the fence to the wall

                                         G
No words could explain, no actions determine

F                     G                          Am
  Just watching the trees and the leaves as they fall
[Outro] (bass riff 2) x6 + piano (e string position 19 & 20)
(bass)
e|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------|
E|-5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5--5-|
(synth) Am B C B Am
(piano)
e|-----------|
B|-----1-0-1-|
G|-2---------|
D|-----------|
A|-----------|
E|-----------|