Tori Amos – Bang (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
F#m           C#
Bang went the gun on their tongue

F#m                     Bm
Word crucifixion toward immigrants shunned

E                       C# C#/B C#/A  C#/G#
"Immigrants. That's who we all  are

             A   A/G#    F#m
'cause we're all made of stars,"

            D
you said to them

           C#   C#/B  C#/A   C#/G#
Oh yes you did
[Verse 2]
F#m           C#
Bang went the universe

D#m/A#               Bm
Hydrogen lusting for helium's burst

E                       C#     C#/B C#/A  C#/G#
A mighty sun's dance of death, exp--lo----ding

A  Bm  F#m
Su-per nova

            D
One story's end,

                 C#     C#/B  C#/A   C#/G#
seeds another to begin
[Chorus]
D                F#m
Then the heavens opened and then

D              F#m
I heard voices joined in hosannas

D               A   C#   D
breathlessly. I saw your star
[Bridge]
A            G       A
So bright it blinded me

  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes

A            G       A
So bright it blinded me

  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes

A            G       A
So bright it blinded me

  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes

D                    Bm
And then you took my hand

           C#  C#/B  C#/A  C#/G#
Oh yes you did
[Verse 3]
F#m             C#
Bang the world. Now traumatized

D#m/A#                  Bm
by a cluster of hostile humans who side

E                      C#   C#/B C#/A  C#/G#
with their warlords of hate so   we    must

A   Bm F#m
out-create

                      D
with 'The Backbone of Night'

          C#   C#/B  C#/A   C#/G#
to re-humanize
[Chorus 2]
D                F#m
Then the heavens opened and then

D              F#m
I heard voices joined in hosannas

D               F#m
And their tower of confusion

D                    A
Could not drown the light

C#        D
From your star
[Bridge]
A            G       A
So bright it blinded me

  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes

A            G       A
So bright it blinded me

  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes

A            G       A
So bright it blinded me

  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes

D                    Bm
And then you lit the path

           C#  C#/B  C#/A  C#/G#
Oh yes you did
[Outro]
F#m                  C#
   "Can't they see,"   he said to me,

D#m/A#         Bm    D         C#
  "that we all   are molecular    machines?"

D                  F#dim/C
  Goals and dreams.       All I wanna be

C#             C#/B     C#/A  C#/G#
   is the very best machine   I can be

F#m        C#
   Oxygen     and Carbon

D#m/A#  Bm    D         C#
part of   our molecular    machines

D                  F#dim/C
  Goals and dreams.       All I wanna be

C#             C#/B     C#/A  C#/G#
   is the very best machine   I can be

F#m         C#
   Hydrogen,  calcium

D#m/A#      Bm  D        C#
phosphorus, po--tassium, sulfur

D         F#dim/C
  Sodium.        All I wanna be

C#             C#/B     C#/A  C#/G#
   is the very best machine   I can be

F#m       C#
Chlorine,   magnesium

D#m/A#   Bm   D    C#
Boron,   chromium, cobalt

D                F#dim/C
Copper, fluorine.       All I wanna be

C#             C#/B     C#/A  C#/G#
   is the very best machine   I can be

F#m      C#
Iodine,    iron, manganese

D#m/A#      Bm        D         C#
Molybdenum, nitrogen, selenium, silicon, tin

   D               F#dim/C
vanadium, and zinc.       All I wanna be

  Bm   C#   F#m
a molecular machine.