Burning Chords

by The War On Drugs
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Difficulty: beginner
Capo: no capo
Author heenkep [a] 214.
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Chords

A
D
G
E
Bm
F#m

Strumming

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If you like you can put a capo on 2nd fret and transpose the song two steps down instead.
 
Until the guitar starts it's basically just an A
 
[Intro]
 
A D (x4)
 
[Verse 1]
 
A
On a drive I'm taking backroads
D
High against where the rivers are flowing
A                        D
I didn't think that our love had grown
 
A
You had me dead to rights
         D
Hey, I'm trying to get some rest 
            A         D
To keep on moving
 
A
 How you been, you looking back
     D
You tried to change your burning boat
A                        D      G       D
 Until you realized what you were up against
 
A
I spent all those nights
     D
Just trying to take you home
        A             D
'Til you released me
 
[Chorus]
 
E          A
Cross the bridge
    Bm   F#m    E
To redefine your pain
        F#m               D
Then the answer is in your heart
E         A
 Wide awake
  Bm     F#m     E                 D
I rearrange the way I listen in the dark
A           E
Dreaming of starting up 
A      D
again
 
A  D
 
[Verse 2]
 
         A                        D
So if you look, you'll find yourself
 
You're not the demon in the dark
     A                           D
That you and I, yea we'd been through that
 
A
  Can you rectify
D
All the time it took you
                 A    D
Away from choosing?
 
A                          D
  So as you find yourself flying high up there
A                               D         G   D
  When you release me from your heart again (woo!)
A                           D
  I'm just a burning man trying to keep the ship
             A
From turning over 
D
again
 
[Chorus]
 
E            A     Bm  F#m    E
  Cross the rich derivative of pain
        F#m               D
Crush the burning in your heart
E          A
  Wide awake
    Bm F#m    E                       D
To redefine the way you listen in the dark
 A        E
Dreaming, starting
     D       F#m               E
Like a stranded kid in a doorway
         A     D
Just burning
                 A        D
Yeah we turn the light in
 
Then just fade out with A & D (G & C if capo on 2nd) until the song ends
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Burning – The War On Drugs
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8 comments
AnonyNotur
Great work man (or woman). This is probably the nicest chord tab I have ever heard. Thank you
+5
robert.j.perrym
yeah this is so nice!
+1
dscales63
I think this should be on Capo 2, with all the chords transposed two down? Great tab though
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