Julien Baker – Distant Solar Systems (Guitar)

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[Intro] A F#m Dsus2 A E [Verse 1]
A             F#m         Dsus2         A     E
Distant solar systems and all the minor plaaaanets

     A              F#m            Dsus2       A    E
Know nothing of our satellites and Seven forty-seeeevens

A              F#m          Dsus2           A    E
Fireworks that recreate the birth of constellaaaations

A               F#m              Dsus2     A     E
Dying suns that laugh at shotgun powder imitaaaaations

A           F#m             Dsus2              A     E
When I am a sailor, and the sky, a pitch-black oooooocean

     A               F#m                Dsus2         A        E
I'll look down at my bleeding heart and wish I were a Vuuuuuuulcan
[Bridge] A Dsus2 A E [Verse 2]
               Dsus2   A                   E
It's Byzantine struuuuctures, churches and all

           Dsus2   A               E
All of our treaaaaasure of oil and gold

           Dsus2    A                E
All of the emmmmmmmmpires crumble in stone

           Dsus2 A              E
Great architeccccture gilded in chrome
[Verse 1]
A             F#m             Dsus2        A       E
God and I, we correspond with intermittent leeeeeeetters

A                F#m                Dsus2           A      E
I send postcards from the road, and now and then he annnnnnswers

A                F#m              Dsus2          A       E
Echoes, northern city-states, and all the mighty kinnnnngdoms

A              F#m           Dsus2    A       E
Head of sewing needles on an unending horiiiiiiizon

  A                F#m              Dsus2           A    E
I knew there was a scene before you ever thought to sing it

    A               F#m            Dsus2            A    E
And call yourself a bastard, and I know you like an orrrrphan
[Bridge] A Dsus2 A E [Verse 2]
                    Dsus2   A              E
'Cause great men of sciiiiiience and literature

        Dsus2     A                E
Don't impressssss me, what can I offer?

               Dsus2  A           E
Because I am a chiiiiisel in your hand

             Dsus2    A                     E
Screaming at maaaaaaarble from a microphone stand, aaaaaaand
(final "aaaaaaand" has seven syllables, with corresponding notes below)
    1, 2 3 4, 5 6 7
e|------------------|
B|------------------|
G|------------------|
D|------------------|
A|--4--5-4-2--------|
E|------------5-4-5-|
[Outro] A F#m Dsus2 A