The Mountain Goats – Through This Fire (Guitar)

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[Intro] G F C x2 [Verse 1]
G                         Em
My faith ran out with the flames one night

A7                             C
Shrinking in the embers of the firelight

          Cm                  G
You were rambling about your friends

               C                      D
How you were never going to see them again

G                         Bm
There wasn′t any fire and brimstone left

A7                               C
Just a hollow rattle inside your chest

            Cm                G
Deep in the dark of our 45th day

          C                  D
It wasn't ever going to go away
[Chorus]
  Em                                 D           C
I began to understand the things the heat requires

C              D             G    F   C
Looking at you through this fire
G F C [Verse 2]
G                          Em
The last days come and the last days go

A7                        C
Carried away in the undertow

           Cm                   G
But on our trust we rise and fall

C            D
Human after all

G                            Bm
I calculated one week to go, maybe less

A7                               C
You were slipping in and out of consciousness

         Cm            G
What are seven days worth?

C                    D
Seven days on this earth
[Chorus]
  Em                       D             C
More than kings in their castles might desire

C              D             Em
Looking at you through this fire
[Bridge]
B
Through this fire where we were witnesses when

Em
You were reborn

C                      G    A            D
One of the seven at Jericho, sounding his horn
[Instrumental] G Bm A Cm G Bm A D G Bm A Cm G Bm A Cm [Verse 3]
G               Em
Bear me on the breath of dawn

A7                      C
Very soon we′ll both be gone

Cm                           G
It's getting harder to hear you, friend

C                        D
Waiting for the world to end

G                               Bm
But let me isolate the relevant voice in the choir

     A7                     C
Somewhere out there on the wire

Cm                               G
I'll run all night, but my legs won′t tire

A7                        C
The ocean is faithful and the devil′s a liar
[Chorus]
C              D             G    F   C
Looking at you through this fire
[Outro] G F C G F C G F Cmaj7