This is designed to give a flavour of the songs as played on a guitar only.
Time signature where tricksy is noted
note E chord is best played as a progression of D on the 4th fret as:
e 0
B 5
G 4
D x
A x
E x
Intro: 4 bars of A
A C
Long before the living past had ripped it all apart
A Fmaj7
Something still remained until It flashed back to the start
A C
Where it stands, nobody saw behind the blackest eyes
A Fmaj7 Em7
Show them how you're stronger now it pays to advertise wisely
D E) C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
Day after day with you in my head I said some things I shouldn't have said
D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
For reasons unknown that I now forget I gave you no love, which I now regret
Asus --------- Asus (let ring)
A C
What I'd give to hear again those everlasting songs
A Fmaj7
Why did all the accidents contrive to fall at once?
D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
Only day after day with you in my thoughts I never knew time was so short
D E C#m Dmaj7 D E C#m Dmaj7
For once in my life I wasn't alone with blood on my hands how could I have known?
Am -------------- Dm
Am Dm
Used to be the great white hope once I walked on water
Am Dm
Now I barely stay afloat balance out of order
Ab Gm Fm Bb
With every sympathy worn away who can I return to now?
Am Dm
For the time that I have left I scan that cold horizon
Am Dm
Searching for a kindred soul, someone to rely upon
Ab Gm Fm Bb
We disconnected and Heaven sent sheltered in dead air, hidden everywhere
D A G D A
The sky lights up above America
D A G D A
The world is lost but loves America
Bm G Bm A
When the eyes of children see the ones left standing
Bm A G A
And the rest begin to finally understand
D A G D A
The hand of God defends America
D A G D A
And who would not defend America?
Bm Bm A
We've got light on our side we're in pole position
Bm A G A D
So praise the Lord and raise the ammunition high
D ---- C ---- Bb --- A
C G D
Raise it high
D ---- C ---- Bb --- A ---- Eb ---- E
Hide where you can
We will shoot you where you stand
(Section in 7/4 time)
E
I've walked a million miles upon an open road
Bm
And once in every while without the will to carry on
A Bm C
Hours held me too long in one location
E
An old familiar tale, a glory to behold
Bm
A work of genius, the greatest story ever sold
A Bm C A
As you sign on the line, as you do what you're told
A G A A-A B-B C-C B-B A-A (played as A progression)
All you sell is your soul
E
I've been this way before I've seen it many times
Bm
Collision on the track the fiction turning into fact
A Bm C A
No-one dares to look back, best you start to prepare
A G A G A C#m
For the harvest ahead, all you lose is yourself
C#m -- B -- A -- G#m
C#m B A G#m
I'm brought to life with a series of shocks
C#m F#m A G#m
I realise that you are gone from my life
C#m B A G#m
And still I cling to the fear of the dark
C#m F#m A G#m
Don't follow them for they don't care how you are
A B G#m A
And I'm finding a way of being
A B G#m C#m
Accepting life all alone
A B G#m A
And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing
A B G#m C#m
A way to live on my own
C#m B A G#m
It wasn't hard to believe in the lie
C#m F#m A G#m
Although I've come to know it wasn't my fault
C#m B A G#m
Why does the world continue to spin
C#m F#m A G#m
While everything around me grinds to a halt?
A B G#m A
And I'm finding a way of being
A B G#m C#m
Accepting life all alone
A B G#m A
And I'm hoping I'll wake up seeing
A B G#m C#m
A way to live on my own
C#m -- B -- A -- G#m
2
C#m -- B -- A – F#
(Instrumental in alternating bars of 5/8 and 6/8 then 5/4 time)
C#m Eb C#m Eb
B C#m B C#m (x2)
A F# Eb
C#m Eb C#m Eb
B C#m B C#m
A F# Eb C#m
(Into crescendo)
F# E-E B-B (x3)
F# C#m F# B C#m F# F# F#
Mine is a real fine line I get harder the higher I climb
F# C#m F# B C#m F#
Shine like a star so bright anybody can see anytime
F# G#m F# B
No-one will want to follow, this will be gone tomorrow
F# E F#
We enter an age of permanent doubt
B F#
Where we communicate without words
E B F# E B F# E F#
But I must be heard so I cut through the smoke and the noise
F# C#m F# B C#m F
Mine is a real fine line it imagines it's one of a kind
F# G#m F# B
Goodbye to all expression farewell to superstition
F# E F#
We enter an age of permanent doubt
B F#
Where we communicate without words
C#m F# B E F# E F#
And the noise expands as it covers the lie of the land
F# E B F# E B E
Shine like a star so bright ‘till we shut out the light, put out the fire
F# E F# G F#
Cut through the smoke and the noise
F# G F#
Lately I've been talking to myself
E F# G F# G
Been remembering and doing little else
F# G F#
The road ahead is anything but clear
E F# G F# G
Last time around, where did we go from here?
G F# G A Bb E E E E
A(x8 steady march)
A x 4 D Bb G A
A x 4 Bb C G A
E x4 D x2 Ex4
Ex4 D E A E D A
A Dm Bb C G
What about some golden hours? I was alive, certainly you were wrong
A Dm Bb C G
Anyone can be persuaded given the time, we all scream alone
A Dm Bb C G
What about this good for nothing season again? Everything's come and gone
A Dm Bb C G
And I can't believe that I'm not watching you I'm in a sorry state
E Dm
Return to ordinary thoughts now If you can
E Dm E C A
The words I hardly understand gather round me while I wait
3
A Dm Bb C G
What about those colder cowards arming against lost intelligence?
A Dm Bb C G
Anyone who saw me crawling there would have known that I was normal once
E Dm E Dm
Return to ordinary thoughts too young to take the stand
E Dm
But old enough to kill anyone
HA!
(6/4 Time)
Am-Am-Am-Am-Am-Am
Am F
In the days when love divided up the looks
F# G
No drastic means were used like rod and hooks
Em F
To enhance what nature's sculptor had designed
D Eb
No augmentation needed to refine
Am F
In the valley of the dollar, we rejoice
F# G
For plastic is the currency of choice
Em F
And beauty born is strictly for the birds
D Eb
Your cash is fine but credit is preferred
Am-Am-Am-Am-Am-Am
Repeat chords above
Am Dm
When I held myself aloft I walked across the water
Am Am
Now I barely cut across, lives are getting shorter
G# Gm F Bb
And they open up another door to a border far below
Am Dm
For the time that I'm allowed, there's a new horizon
Am Dm
But a soul as cold as ice is nothing to rely upon
G# Gm F Bb F Bb
If I'm hanging onto angels' wings then I'm safer in the air
Cdim Bbdim
Do I still qualify, suspended from on high?
Bb5 D
No other sanctuary have I
D Dsus4 D A G D G
D Dsus4 D A G D A
Bm G Bm A
And when the eyes of children see past the ones left standing
Bm G D G D
And the time has surely come to understand who we are
D Dsus4 D A G D G
D Dsus4 D A G D A
Bm G Bm A
Slowly the fires are burning bearing their silent witness
Bm G D G A D
And the living past returns to reap the Harvest of Souls
D Dsus4 D A G D G (to fade)
Source: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/iq/harvest_of_souls_chords_1716207