🎸 Chord Protest The Hero - Blindfolds Aside

protest the hero
blindfolds aside
submitted by : paramore_fans@yahoo . com

key : B then F#

tuning : standard eadgbe

chords used :
G#m – 466444
E – 022100
B – x24442
F# – 244322
D#m – x68876
C# – x46664
A#m – x13321
C#m – x46654
C#/F – 143
xxxbb/D – x587
xxa – x02220
F – 133211

intro : G#m – – C#m – – G#m – – D#m – – x6

verse 1 :
E D#m
we woke up as men but
G#m
tonight we’ll sleep as killers
F#
as we break the cryptic
E
morning with a bullet
D#m G#m
and a prayer the steel never seemed
more cold and agile than now
F#
and life never seems less vital
E D#m
and fragile with a heart

G#m – – C#m – – G#m – – D#m – –

chorus :
D#m
with a heart
that’s beating louder
B
than my own i watch A
G#m D#m
woman they call kezia i watch A
woman that i know i watch my
hopes and my own
B
future blindfolded
G#m F# C#/F
to atone for a sin i didn’t care
B
for , but a sin that paid my debts A
F# C#/F
sin that fed my children and
B
burned my smiles and
D#m A#/D D#m – – – – x4
ci – – ga – – – rettes

verse 2 :
D#m
and no one ever said that hope
F# C# D#m
would be so beautiful and no
one ever said i’d have to
F# C#
pull the trigger on her

guitar solo : D#m – – x4 B ,
F# – – D#m – – B – – G#m – – A – – C# – – F# – – E – – F – –

D#m – – x4

verse 3 :
D#m C# D#m C# B
five soldiers forever sedated
F# D#m C# D#m
with the “no one’s responsible” psychological drama
C# B C# B C#
of our social justice dribble
D#m C# D#m
her tiny steps tell
C# D#m C#
lies about the choice i have to make resurrect A
B C# A#/D
static lifetime starve to death my own
D#m C# D#m
mistakes pull the screaming trigger and watch your
C# B D#m
carcass bleed me dry or drop the gun and try to
C# D#m C# B D#m
shake away the blindfold from your eyes? drop the
C# D#m C# B
gun , drop the gun , drop the gun , drop the gun

outro : D#m – – x6