Achilles, Come Down Tab por Gang of Youths

[Verse 1]
Dm        C         F               Dm
Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down
          Dm          C              Dm
Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?
       Dm             C          F          C
You’re scaring us and all of us, some of us love you
Dm                 C                F
Achilles, it’s not much but there’s proof
    Dm           C            F          Dm
You crazy-assed cosmonaut, remember your virtue
 Dm             C          F
Redemption lies plainly in truth
     Dm          C        F               G
Just humour us, Achilles, Achilles, come down
         Dm           C              Dm
Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?
 
 
[French language sample]
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[Verse 2]
Dm       C           F             Dm
Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, come down
          Dm          C             F
Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?
     Dm               C            F          C
The self is not so weightless, nor whole and unbroken
Dm            C          Dm
Remember the pact of our youth
      Dm          C         F            G
Where you go, I’m going, so jump and I’m jumping
      Dm         C           Dm
Since there is no me without you
Dm          C         F         Dm
Soldier on, Achilles, Achilles, come down
         Dm           C               F
Won’t you get up off, get up off the roof?
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
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Loathe the way they light candles in Rome
     D             C          Dm
But love the sweet air of the votives
Dm       F                D       Gm
Hurt and grieve but don’t suffer alone
  D              C         Dm
Cngage with the pain as a motive
 
 
[Chorus]
   Gm        F     C
Today of all days, see
Am            F        C           F
How the most dangerous thing is to love
Am           F               C    F
How you will heal and you’ll rise above
 
 
[French language sample]
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[Verse 3]
Dm        C         F          Dm
Achilles, Achilles, Achilles, jump now
        Dm        C         F
You are absent of cause or excuse
Dm        C           F         Dm
So self-indulgent and self-referential
    Dm           C         Dm
No audience could ever want you
    Dm           C          F        C
You crave the applause yet hate the attention
      Dm           C         F
Then miss it, your act is a ruse
       Dm    F            F          Dm
It is empty, Achilles, so end it all now
       Dm          C            Dm
It's a pointless resistance for you
 
 
[French language sample]
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[Verse 4]
Dm        C                  F       Dm
Achilles, Achilles, just put down the bottle
       Dm        C             F
Don’t listen to what you’ve consumed
     Dm         C            F      Dm
It’s chaos, confusion and wholly unworthy
    Dm              C        F
Of feeding and it’s wholly untrue
    Dm           C           F           Gm
You may feel no purpose nor a point for existing
     Dm        C              F
It’s all just conjecture and gloom
          Dm         C           F             Gm
And there may not be meaning, so find one and seize it
   Dm           C             F
Do not waste yourself on this roof
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Dm          F          D          Gm
Hear those bells ring deep in the soul
D         C         Dm
Chiming away for a moment
Dm        F             D         Gm
Feel your breath course frankly below
        D           C      Dm
Fnd see life as a worthy opponent
 
 
[Chorus]
  Gm         F     C
Today of all days, see
Am           F          C          F
How the most dangerous thing is to love
Am           F               C     F
How you will heal and you’ll rise above
Am            F        C          F
Crowned by an overture bold and beyond
Dm            C                 F
Ah, it’s more courageous to overcome
 
 
[French language sample]
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[Verse 5]
     F          Dm
You want the acclaim, the mother of mothers
       Dm             Gm
(It’s not worth it, Achilles)
 
More poignant than fame or the taste of another
       Dm       F
(Don’t listen, Achilles)
 
But be real and just jump, you dense motherfucker
         Dm          F
(You’re worth more, Achilles)
 
You will not be more than a rat in the gutter
 Dm       C         F
(So much more than a rat)
 
You want my opinion, my opinion you’ve got
 Dm     C          C
(No one asked your opinion)
 
You asked for my counsel, I gave you my thoughts
 Dm                   Gm
(No one asked for your thoughts)
    C                    C            Gm
Be done with this now and jump off the roof
 
(Be done with this now and get off the roof)
       Dm        F             Am         C
Can you hear me, Achilles? I’m talking to you
 
 
[Bridge]
     Gm         F
I’m talking to you
    F          C
I’m talking to you
    F          C
I’m talking to you
Dm             C
Achilles, come down
F              C Gm
Achilles, come down
 
 
[French language sample]
Dm C F Gm F
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Dm        C     C        Dm
Throw yourself into the unknown
      Dm        C      F
With pace and a fury defiant
Dm         C       F        Dm
Clothe yourself in beauty untold
         Dm        C         F
Fnd see life as a means to a triumph
 
 
[Chorus]
Gm           F    C
Today of all days, see
Am           F         C          F
How the most dangerous thing is to love
Am           F               C     F
How you will heal and you’ll rise above
Am            F        C           F
Crowned by an overture bold and beyond
Dm             C              F
Ah, it’s more courageous to overcome