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Awful Sound (oh Eurydice)

Arcade Fire

RockAdvanced for beginners5 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

F#mDiagram coming soon
Bm×
D××
C#mDiagram coming soon
A×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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F#m            Bm 
You and I were born 
F#m            Bm 
In a little town 
F#m            Bm  
Before the awful sound 
               D        C#m  
Started coming down 
 
Oh no 
Oh 
 
You came home from school 
And knew you had to run 
Please stop running now 
Just let me be the one 
 
For you 
 
I know you can see 
Things that we can't see 
But when I say I love you 
Your silence covers me 
Oh, Eurydice, It's an awful sound 
 
D 
I was so disappointed 
                A 
You didn't want me 
D 
Oh, how could it be, Eurydice 
                    A 
I was standing beside you 
D            
By a frozen sea 
                   A 
Will you ever get free? 
D                  A 
Just take all your pain 
D                
Just put it on me 
                  A 
So that you can breathe 
 
When you fly away 
Will you hit the ground? 
It's an awful sound 
 
 
I know there's a way 
We can make 'em pay 
Think it over and say 
"I'm never going back again." 
I know there's a way 
We can leave today 
Think it over and say 
"I'm never going back again." 
 
You were born in the little town 
Before the awful sound 
Started coming down 
There's so much inside you 
That you won't let me see 
You fly away from me 
But it's an awful sound 
When you hit the ground 
It's an awful sound 
When you hit the ground 
 
 
I know there's a way 
We can make 'em pay 
Think it over and say 
"I'm never going back again." 
I know there's a way 
We can leave today 
Think it over... 
 
We know there's a price to pay 
For love in the reflective age 
I met you up upon a stage 
Our love in a reflective age 
 
Oh no, now you're gone 
          
 

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Chord set

F#m · Bm · D · C#m · A

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.