Tabbed by: asd20227
Tuning: Standard
Capo: 3rd (variation to 5th and 7th during the song)
Specific chords:
G (320033)
C7M (X32000)
F7M (133210) use thumb on the lower E string
Dm7 (XX0211)
(Strum once for each chord)
Am Dm
This is a tale that takes its place.
G C7M
In Paris fair, this year of grace.
F7M Dm
Fourteen hundred eighty two.
E Am
A tale of lust and love so true.
(Arpeggios onwards)
Am Dm7
We are the artists of the time,
G C7M
we dream in sculpture dream in rhyme.
F7M Dm
For you we bring our world alive,
E Am
so something will survive.
Refrain:
(silent) Dm7 G
From nowhere came the age of the cathedrals.
C7M F7M
The old world began.
Dm/B E Am
A new unknown thousand years.
Dm7 G
For man just has to climb up where the stars are.
C7M F7M
And live beyond life.
Dm/B E Am
Live in glass and live in stone.
Am Dm
Stone after stone, day after day.
G C7M
From year to year man had his way.
F7M Dm
Men had built with faith and love.
E Am
These cathedrals rose above.
Am Dm7
We troubadours and poets sing.
G C7M
That love is all and everything.
F7M Dm
We promise you, all human kind.
E Am
Tomorrow will be fine.
Repeat Refrain
(change from capo 3 to capo 5 during the silence in the coming line)
Repeat Refrain
(change from capo 5 to capo 7 during the silence in the coming line)
(silent) Dm7 G
But it is doomed the age of the cathedrals.
C7M F7M
Barbarians wait.
Dm/B E Am
At the gates of Paris fair.
Dm7 G
Oh let them in, these pagans and these vandals.
C7M F7M
A wise man once said.
Dm/B E Am
In two thousand, this world ends.
Dm/B E Am
In two thousand, this world ends.