Tuning:

BRIEF IS THE LIGHT - Sentenced from album The Cold White Light (2002) live on Buried Alive (2006) CD/DVD music by Miika Tenkula, lyrics by Sami lopakka Buried Alive version in Dm (or D tune): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zpZTtWzifk&t=6420 [Intro] C C Em Em C Am Em D/F# C C Em Em C Am Em D/F# C C Em Em C Am [Verse 1]

^Em The bells a^Emgain... someone has d^Gied ^D/F# ^Em The bells of the ^Emend toll to rem^Gind ^D/F# that ^Amlife's but a ^Crace against^Em time ^Em

[Verse 2]

^Em At your b^Emack you'll always h^Gear ^D/F# ^Em The chariot of t^Emime hurrying n^Gear ^D/F# The ^Dfaster you ^Crun the closer ^Git comes ^G A ^Dpursuer ^Cyou can not out^Gru^Amn

[Chorus]

^EmHear these words I ^Amsay: ^CMake the most out ^Dof your day For ^Embrief is the light on ^Amour way on this ^Gmomentary tr^D/F#ail

^EmHear these words, a^Amwake: ^CMake the most out ^Dof your day For ^Embrief is the time, so ^Ambrief is the time that ^Gwe're allowed to st^D/F#ay... ^D/F# ^C ^C

[Verse 3]

^Em The bells ag^Emain... whose turn this t^Gime? ^D/F# ^Em To reach the e^Emnd, yours or m^Gine? ^D/F# Each ^Dfuneral just ^Cmakes us rea^Glize ^G that ^Dlife's but a ^Cseries of good^Gby^Ames

[Chorus]

^EmHear these words I ^Amsay: ^CMake the most out ^Dof your day For ^Embrief is the light on ^Amour way on this ^Gmomentary tr^D/F#ail (.^D/F#..too late)

[Solo] C C Em Em C Am Em Em D/F# C C Em Em C Am N.C.N.C. [Chorus]

^EmHear these words I ^Amsay: ^CMake the most out ^Dof your day For ^Embrief is the light on ^Amour way on this ^Gmomentary tr^D/F#ail

^EmHear these words, a^Amwake: ^CMake the most out ^Dof your day For ^Embrief is the time, so ^Ambrief is the time that ^Gwe're allowed to st^D/F#ay... ^D/F#

[Outro]

Life passes ^Cby,^C melts away like s^Emnow in the spring ^Em We all are ^Cblind^Am to the running of t^Emime ^D/F#

C C Em Em C Am Em -TTP

Sentenced - Brief is the light