Black Burning Heart Uke tab by Keane

9 Chords used in the song: Bm, Bsus2, D, D/C#, Em, A, G, Gmaj7, Em6

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Artist: 
Year:  2008
Difficulty: 
4.17
(Intermediate)
Key: D, BmChords
PRE-INTRO:   Bm chordBm - Bsus2 chordBsus2

INTRO: D chordD | D/C# chordD/C# | Em chordEm | Em chordEm - A chordA

VERSE:
Bm chordBm D chordD
I wish that I could be
A chordA G chordG
In the cellars of the sea
Bm chordBm D chordD
And disappear in them
A chordA G chordG
Never to be seen again

Bm chordBm D chordD
Live this life
A chordA G chordG
Its unrelenting appetite
Bm chordBm D chordD
For feeding off the weak
A chordA G chordG
Who never had their time to speak

PRECHORUS:
Bm chordBm Gmaj7 chordGmaj7
The sky will be my shroud
Em chordEm G chordG A chordA
A chordA monumental cloud

CHORUS:
D chordD D/C# chordD/C#
If we could turn back, you can't paper over the crack
Em chordEm A chordA
But it will return now, and your heart will burn black

VERSE:
Bm chordBm D chordD
Give me your hand
A chordA G chordG
Cut the skin, let me in
Bm chordBm D chordD
The molecules of us
A chordA G chordG
Bleeding into one again

PRECHORUS:
Bm chordBm Gmaj7 chordGmaj7
The sky will be my shroud
Em chordEm G chordG A chordA
The cenotaph of cloud


CHORUS:
D chordD D/C# chordD/C#
If we could turn back, you can't paper over the crack
Em chordEm A chordA
But it will return now, and your heart will burn black
D chordD D/C# chordD/C#
Forgotten my way home, forgotten everything that I know
Em chordEm Em6 chordEm6 A chordA
Every day a false start, and it burns my heart

BRIDGE 1:
D chordD
I know
A chordA Gmaj7 chordGmaj7
Everything you said was right, and I suppose
Bm chordBm D chordD
Everything is here forever, till it goes
A chordA Gmaj7 chordGmaj7
You gave it all away, kept nothing for yourself
Just a picture on the shelf

FRENCH:
Bm chordBm - Gmaj7 chordGmaj7 - Em chordEm - G chordG - A chordA

Je souhaiterais merger
Dans les profondeurs des mers
Y disparatre
Pour ne plus jamais tre vu

BRIDGE 2:
D chordD
Burning up now
A chordA Em chordEm
And I'm racing down a road I don't recognise
I realise I've

CHORUS:
D chordD D/C# chordD/C#
Forgotten my way home, forgotten everything that I know
Em chordEm Em6 chordEm6 A chordA
Every day a false start, and it burns my heart
D chordD - D/C# chordD/C# - Em chordEm - A chordA
Turn B chordB(l?)ack

D chordD | D/C# chordD/C# | Em chordEm | Em chordEm - A chordA

OUTRO: Bm chordBm

Uke tab by , 24 May 2013

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About this song: Black Burning Heart

Black Burning Heart is the 10th track of Keane's third album, "Perfect Symmetry".
It features special vocals in french by Ana

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