Burden of Tomorrow The Tallest Man on Earth
EDITED FROM LAST VERSION
I totally agree that this is the best song on the album. Maybe one day someone will
post it with drop tuning, but this is standard tuning.
(To make fingerwork easier: put capo on second fret to make it an F# chord but with an E
fingering. Get it? In which case you'd be fingering E, A, E, A B, c#m, A, B... for
the beginning of the verse)
**Note: When playing the final chord of the chorus, I believe the artist's tuning
creates a B chord with a Major 7th added, or Major B7 chord (not a dominant 7, which instead
would add a minor 7th). At this moment, either a B, a Major B7, or an a# minor chord
sound pretty good to me.
(( Intro ))
F#, B, F# F#
F#, B
[F#] [B] [F#] [B]
[F] [B] [C#] [C#]
Oh [F#]I was sent to[B] find the lonesome place[F#]
Where I was los[B]t but left to t[C#]race
By carving[d#m] riddles on th[B]e loneso[C#]me vine
Oh [F#]but rumor has[B] it that I wasn't bor[F#]n
I just walked in[B] one frosty mor[C#]n
Into the [d#m]vision of some[B] vacant [C#]mind
B C# F# B **(optional: add 7, I think it's heard in Matsson's tuning.)
Oh once I held a pony by its flagging mane
And onc[B]e I called [C#]the shadow i[F#]n the turn[B]ing game
But [d#m]I will [C#] fig[B]ht this stran[C#]ger that you should fear
So I[d#m] won't[C#] be[B] a burden o[F#]f tomorrow dear
(( Interlude or something. ))
F#, B, F#, B
Aww[F#] Xavier's on [B]the border of the[F#] sun
Swings on [B]the chambers of [C#]your guns
And tries to [d#m]shoot the chord [B]and light th[C#]e path
Aww[F#] but hell I'm[B] just a blind[F#] man on the plains
I drink my[B] water when [C#]it rains
And live[d#m] by chance among[B] the ligh[C#]tning strikes
Oh o[B]nce I h[C#]eld a gl[F#]acier [B]to an open flame
And onc[B]e I felt li[C#]ke wildcat i[F#]n the fa[B]llen game
But I [d#m]will fi[C#]ght thi[B]s stranger[C#] that you should fear
So I w[d#m]on't be[C#] a burd[B]en of tomo[F#]rrow dear
F#, B, F# F#
F#, B
Oh [B]the sin[C#]ger's on[F#] the e[B]dge to feed the canyon's mouth
The[B]y will [C#]go on fo[F#]rever [d#m]til they sing you out of time
But I[d#m] will f[C#]ight th[B]is strange[C#]r that you should fear
So I [d#m]won't b[C#]e a bur[B]den of tom[F#]orrow dear
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