Song: Destroyer of the Void
Artist: Blitzen Trapper
Album: "Destroyer of the Void" [2010]
Tab by Devin Miller
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
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| PART 1 "The wayward Son" |
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Chord reference:
G C D Am Bb A F B7 E F#7 B F#
e|--3---0---2---0-----------1---2---0-----------2--|
B|--0---1---3---1---3---2---1---0---0---2---4---2--|
G|--0---0---2---2---3---2---2---2---1---3---4---3--|
D|--0---2---0---2---3---2---3---1---2---x---4---4--|
A|--2---3-------0---1---0---3---2---2---1---2---4--|
E|--3-----------------------1-------0---2-------2--|
Here's to the lone and wayward son!
G C
For to love is to live, for to roll like a rolling stone
D Am G C
I fell in with men who were wicked in the end
Bb A F C
As we roll, by and by, so these crimes multiply
B7 E
Yeahhhhhhhh
Am D
See this wayward son, boy
G F#7 B A
Will you live to run another dayyyyyyy
E C G F#
Dark is the heart and dreams will come
Bm D A G C
To the swift and the dead, to the poor and the wayward son
D Am G C
My love can't you see, just what's happening to me
Bb A F C
All I touch turns to sand slipping down through my hand
B7 E
Yeahhhhhhhh
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| PART 2 "Bird of the Void" |
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Chord reference:
E C#m F#m Faug Am C G F#7 Bm D F B
e|--0---4---2---2---0---0---3-------2---2---1---2-|
B|--0---5---2---2---1---1---0---2---3---3---1---4-|
G|--1---6---2---2---2---0---0---3---4---2---2---4-|
D|--2---6---4---3---2---2---0---x---4---0---3---4-|
A|--2---4---4---4---0---3---2---1---2-------3---2-|
E|--0-----------------------3---2-----------1-----|
E C#m
I can see the future in your eyes
F#m
Shining like a million skies
Faug Am C G
Overall, overall, my petty crimes, I perpetrate
F#7
I know you should hate me
Bm C G
But you celebrate me everytime I'm on your side
D
My eyes open wide
C G D
You just wing it like a bird, out over the void
C G F C
And all my petty crimes and curses, they are destroyed
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E C#m F#m Faug Am C G
F#7
I know you should hate me
Bm C G
But you elevate me up into the stratosphere
D C G
I no longer care that I am terrified, alright
D
Yeah, but you are the cure
C G F C
'Cuz all my petty crimes and curses, they disappear
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B ----->
E C#m
I can feel the future in your skin
F#m
Catch the spirits as they spin
Faug Am C G
All around, all around, my petty crimes, I perpetrate
F#7
I know you should hate me
Bm C G
But you rearrange me comin' off the starting line
D
A hammer at wild
C G D
But you just wing it like a bird, out over the void
C G F C
And all my petty crimes and curses, they are destroyed
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B ----->
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/blitzen_trapper/destroyer_of_the_void_tab.html ]
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| PART 3 "The Serpent is Rising" |
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Chord reference:
Bm G F C D A Bb G# D# F# E
e|--2---3---1---0---2-------6---4-------2---0---|
B|--3---3---1---1---3---2---6---4-------2---0---|
G|--4---4---2---0---2---2---7---5---8---3---1---|
D|--4---5---3---2---0---2---8---6---8---4---2---|
A|--2---5---3---3-------0---8---6---6---4---2---|
E|------3---1---3-----------6---4-------2---0---|
Bm G
Now a serpent spoke to me
F C D (see tab A below lyrics)
He was hanging from a pale and nameless tree
A D A
On the blade, where the guys are all insane
C Bb
His voice was like the wind that blows
G# D# Bb
A thousand crows all rising into flight
G# F# E D
Upon the night, alright
Woah, look out! ---> (see Tab B for solo and rhythm guitars)
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Bm G
So I left him in his tree
F C D A
Score some horses, took the road that runs in circles to the sea
D A
But the snake he followed me
C Bb
So I hopped a ship, a silver seed
G# D#
Past galaxies and stars with speed
Bb G# F# E
To end this planet's world's a... void (sorry, hard to determine lyrics here)
**tab A:
e|-2---2-2-2--x-x---------------|
B|-3---3-3-3--x-x-2---2-2-2-2-2-|
G|-2---2-2-2--x-x-2---2-2-2-2-2-|
D|-0---0-0-0--x-x-2---2-4-2-4-2-|
A|----------------0---0-0-0-0-0-|
E|------------------------------|
**tab B (rhythm chords written above solo):
B E A D B E A D
e|-------------------------------|-------------7b---7-4---4-------|
B|-------------7b---7-4----------|----------------------7---7b-4~~|
G|-6br--4---4-----------6b-4---4-|-6br--4---4---------------------|
D|--------6------------------6---|--------6-----------------------|
A|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|--------------------------------| x2
A E
e|-------------------------|
B|--------8br---------8br--|
G|-7b9~~~~5br---------5br--|
D|-5b7~~~~----7b9~~~~------|
A|------------5b7~~~~------|
E|-------------------------| x3
e|--------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------7------------7--------7----------7--------7------|
D|-7--5--7--7----5----7--7--5--7--7--5----7--7--5--7------|
A|-7--5--5--7----5----5--7--5--5--7--5----5--7--5--5------|
E|-5--3-----5----3-------5--3-----5--3-------5--3---------|
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| PART 4 "Epilogue" |
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Chord reference:
E C G F# Bm D A Am G#m6 F B7 F#/D F#7 B
e|--0---0---3---2---2---2---0---0--------1---2----2-------2---|
B|--0---1---0---2---3---3---2---1---6----1---0----3---2---4---|
G|--1---0---0---3---4---2---2---2---4----2---2----2---3---4---|
D|--2---2---0---4---4---0---2---2---3----3---1----0---x---4---|
A|--2---3---2---4---2-------0---0---x----3---2----x---1---2---|
E|--0---3---3---2-------------------4----1--------2---2-------|
E C G F#
Where will you go, when our love's gone?
Bm D A G C
When this world of ours is nothing more than a long lost song
D Am G C
This road that we run, is it where we both belong?
G#m6 A F C
As the years disappear, will you wait for me here?
B7 E F#/D
Am D
See this wayward son, boy
G F#7 F# B A E
Will you live to run another dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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LEGEND:
| b bend up
| br bend then release
| ~ vibrato
| x dead note
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