Burn After Reading Chords & Tabs
Tuning: Half-Step Down
This is already here, but the chords are in the wrong key or something, so here is the
album version, with tabs at the bottom.
INTRO: (w/ lead): E
VERSE: (w/ lead)
E C#m B
Here's to you, the same chords that I stole from a song that I once heard
E C#m B
The Same melody I borrowed from the void. I'd rather observe
E C#m B
than structure a narrative, the characters are thin
E C#m B
the plot does not develop it ends where it begins
E C#m B x2
E C#m B
It's on the screen, in paperbacks, in section 8 and cul-de-sacs
E C#m B A
Electro haikus and drunk sonnets are moving me along. Along
INTERLUDE: (w/ lead): E A x2
CHORUS:
E C#m
You cut my hair, you left red ink everywhere
B A B
Do my hands tell a story? Is it boring?
E C#m
You cut my hair, you left red ink everywhere
B A B
Do my hands tell a story? Is it boring?
VERSE: (w/ lead)
E C#m B
What I'd give to force your sigh, what I'd give to see you cry
E C#m B
What I'd give for your caress to see your blue cotton dress balled up on the floor
E C#m B
Certain memories are the problem certain drunken lines are the shame
E C#m B A
Seven hundred miles and four years I can't fight the flame; it burns
CHORUS:
E C#m
You cut my hair, you left red ink everywhere
B A B
Do my hands tell a story? Is it boring?
E C#m
You cut my hair, you left red ink everywhere
B A B
Do my hands tell a story? Is it boring?
OUTRO: (w/ lead)
E
Was I wishing on satellites?
Tell me how you've been doing that trick
I'm just wishing the flame away
Now I'm wishing the flame away
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/the_menzingers/burn_after_reading_tab.html ]
INTRO:
E
eb|----------------------------------|
Bb|----------------------------------|
Gb|----------------------------------|
Db|-9---~~~-------9---7-6------------|
Ab|-7---~~~---7-----------9-~~~~-----|
Eb|-0---~~~--------------------------|
VERSE:
E C#m B
eb|-----------------------------|---------------------------|
Bb|-----------------------------|---------------------------|
Gb|-------9------8------9-------|------9-----8-----9--------|x4
Db|-----9----9------9-----9---9-|----11--11----9-----9---9--|
Ab|---7--------7------7-----7---|--11------11----9-----9----|
Eb|-0---------------------------|-9-------------------------|
A
eb|------------------------------|
Bb|------------------------------|
Gb|-------6------6------6--------|x2
Db|-----7----7------7-----7---7--|
Ab|---7--------7------7-----7----|
Eb|-5----------------------------|
INTERLUDE:
E
eb|-----------------------------------------|-------------------|
Bb|-----------------------------------------| |
Gb|-----------------------------------------| |
Db|-----9---7--6------------9---7--6--------| |
Ab|-7-------------9--7----------------9-----| |
Eb|-0---------------------------------------| |
A x2
eb|-----------------------------------------| |
Bb|-----------------------------------------| |
Gb|-----------------------------------------| |
Db|-----9---7--6----------------------------| |
Ab|-7-------------9--7------6---7--6--7--9--| |
Eb|-5---------------------------------------|-------------------|
OUTRO:
E
eb|----------------------------------------------|-------------------|
Bb|-----12--10--9-------------------9---------9--| |
Gb|-9--------------11--9-------9h11---11-9-11----| |
Db|--------------------------11------------------| |
Ab|----------------------------------------------| |
Eb|----------------------------------------------| |
E x2
eb|----------------------------------------------| |
Bb|-----12--10--9-------------------9-10-9----9--| |
Gb|-9--------------11--9-------9h11--------11----| |
Db|--------------------------11------------------| |
Ab|----------------------------------------------| |
Eb|----------------------------------------------|-------------------|
