Arcade Fire - Burning bridges breaking hearts
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Tabbed by: Schimdt
Email: anza0427@fridaskolan.se
Any corrections, send them my way.
Great song from Arcade Fires Funeral period (best period imo). Been bothering myself
over the fact that there was no tab for this, so I went ahead and gave it a shot.
Standard tuning, no capo
In this song, both Win and Rich are on guitars, so I'll write down their chords together
and mark the chords played by Rich with a * at the end of them. Those who are without
that symbol are played by win. Simple enough.
Intro:
Let all these chords ring except for the regular C. Just do some down strokes on it.
(Listen to the song, you'll get it)
Ab F C# Ab
Ab F C# C
Verse:
For the first to verses let the chords ring as well, except for the C.
In the background the violin plays a high pitch C and sliding ut to C# at the end of
each line. (Again listen in and you'll here it)
AbAb* FF* C#C#*
Burning bridges, breaking hearts
AbAb*
Everything you taught us to do
AbAb* FF* C#C#*
We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts
CC*
No home to come home to
AbAb* FF* C#C#*
We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts
AbAb*
I won't look you in the eye
AbAb* FF* C#C#*
And burning bridges, breaking hearts
CC*
Caught you in a friendship lie
AbAb*F FC#* CAb#* Ab*
(These chords are played at the same time by Win and Rich, you don't need to let these
ring if you dont want to. In the song they strum them)
(Let these chords ring)
Ab* F* C#*
Took a visit, to your old house
Ab*
The windows were all boarded up
Ab* F* C#*
Try to hold these, memories
C*
The ocean in a paper cup
AbAb* FF* C#C#*
There's no future in this town
AbAb*
They barricade the buildings there
AbAb* FF* C#C#*
To the lion, you've been cast
CC*
Only bones are gonna last
Chorus (Or some such):
Both guitars play this. The whole thing is tremolo picked. For the most accurate sound,
make sure to slide between the notes:
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--16--------9--8---115----7--5----16------9-8---15---11-12-13--------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
It ends on Ab and then goes back into the verse chords. Like so (Again, this verse is
only played by Rich, chords ring):
Ab* F* C#*
There's a city, underground
Ab*
There's a city made of glass
Ab* F* C#*
There's a city, underground
CC*
Hurry cause it's breaking fast
AbAb* FF* C#C#*
We're burning bridges, breaking hearts
AbAb*
Everything you taught us to do
AbAb* FF* C#C#*
We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts
CC*
No home to come home to
AbAb* FF*
We're burning bridges, breaking hearts
AbAb* FF*
We're burning bridges, and breaking hearts
AbAb* FF* C#C#*
We're burning bridges, breaking hearts
CC*
Breaking hearts
Here the song goes into a new chorus like thing. Where both guitars paly the following
in tremolo picking:
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--19---9-8--15--11---6--5--10-9--------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
That repeats while Win sings first verse over it.
Song ends on Abm