Chords for MATT PLESS - Nero | A Fistful Of Vinyl
Tempo:
121.75 bpm
Chords used:
E
B
A
C#m
F#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[F] Legend has it Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned.
[B] But I have a guitar.
[E] [A]
[E] [A]
[B] [E]
In the dawn of desperation when the peasants are beheading every [B] emperor with a [E] golden crown.
First they'll stand with one another then they'll turn against each other under [B] thunder
on a [E] battleground.
With [C#m] their torches, tar and [B] feathers off to round up all the [E] witches on a rail to run
them out [A] of town.
[E] In a kingdom that's [B] collapsing I'm relaxing on the ashes playing fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
[A] [B] [E]
You can dance around the fire with the hand that holds the power [A] or go [B] cower with the
gagged [E] and bound.
While the vultures count the profits and the hawks are launching rockets [A] in a garden [B] growing [E] mushroom clouds.
[C#m] You can storm the ivory towers [B] but the knight in shining [E] armor's days are numbered on the
[A] body count.
[E] So I'm laughing up in heaven [B] in the arms of Armageddon [A] playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A] Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [F#m] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
[B] [E] Where the tricksters and the grifters and the rich carnival [A] barkers sell their sulfur
[B] to the [E] spellbound crowd.
Buying tickets to the promise of a better world to come [A] and left with nothing [B] when their
hope [E] runs out.
[C#m] There's a lifeboat overflowing [B] on a rising violent ocean [E] in the darkness where the sails [A] drown.
[E] But I'm smiling on an island [B] by the tidal wave horizon [A] playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
[B]
If you're screaming in defiance are you David or [A] Goliath when the [B] riot rage is [E] all around?
Call it vengeance, call it justice, call it progress, call it [A] selfish, either way [B] I'm
gonna [E] have my doubts.
[C#m] Maybe I'm just causing [B] problems thinking I know how to solve [E] them so for once I'm gonna
shut [A] my mouth.
[E] Waiting silent in the [B] shadows like a devil at the [A] crossroads playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
You [C#m] can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
You [C#m] can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [F#m] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
[A] [E]
[B] [E]
While the charlatans are shouting propaganda on the mountain [A] truth is [B] spoken to an [E] empty house.
If you ask for my opinion are you trying to make a [A] difference or find something [B] to complain [E] about?
[C#m] When indulgence and consumption [B] leave a landscape of destruction [E] where it's far too late to
turn [A] back now.
[E] I'll be moving on my [B] own way down the existential highway [A] playing [B] fiddle watching Rome [E] burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A] Playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[F#m] Playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A]
[E] [B] [E] [A]
[B] [E]
Yeah.
[G] Hot.
Feels like Rome's [C#] burning down.
[D#] Like hot.
[D] [B] God thanks a lot.
Let me get my songwriter costume off.
Hang on.
Costume change.
I don't [A#] know.
Sleep.
I don't know about that t-shirt.
Oh shit that's right.
It's just a personal [G#] opinion it's not an artistic.
It's all good I'll make sure the guitar covers it.
It's [G] covering it up.
Yeah if anyone's even remotely offended by that the bandana covers the F.
Yeah yeah.
Right.
Well the whole thing Keith [A#] Richards wore this in the 60s so like.
Oh he did?
Yeah I got it off his [E] corpse it was cool.
[Em] Zombified corpse.
[A#] Americans know nothing about history.
[G] Got it off his corpse the first time he died.
The first time.
Back [G#m] in 1986.
The reincarnation of Keith Richards.
[B] But I have a guitar.
[E] [A]
[E] [A]
[B] [E]
In the dawn of desperation when the peasants are beheading every [B] emperor with a [E] golden crown.
First they'll stand with one another then they'll turn against each other under [B] thunder
on a [E] battleground.
With [C#m] their torches, tar and [B] feathers off to round up all the [E] witches on a rail to run
them out [A] of town.
[E] In a kingdom that's [B] collapsing I'm relaxing on the ashes playing fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
[A] [B] [E]
You can dance around the fire with the hand that holds the power [A] or go [B] cower with the
gagged [E] and bound.
While the vultures count the profits and the hawks are launching rockets [A] in a garden [B] growing [E] mushroom clouds.
[C#m] You can storm the ivory towers [B] but the knight in shining [E] armor's days are numbered on the
[A] body count.
[E] So I'm laughing up in heaven [B] in the arms of Armageddon [A] playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A] Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [F#m] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
[B] [E] Where the tricksters and the grifters and the rich carnival [A] barkers sell their sulfur
[B] to the [E] spellbound crowd.
Buying tickets to the promise of a better world to come [A] and left with nothing [B] when their
hope [E] runs out.
[C#m] There's a lifeboat overflowing [B] on a rising violent ocean [E] in the darkness where the sails [A] drown.
[E] But I'm smiling on an island [B] by the tidal wave horizon [A] playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
[B]
If you're screaming in defiance are you David or [A] Goliath when the [B] riot rage is [E] all around?
Call it vengeance, call it justice, call it progress, call it [A] selfish, either way [B] I'm
gonna [E] have my doubts.
[C#m] Maybe I'm just causing [B] problems thinking I know how to solve [E] them so for once I'm gonna
shut [A] my mouth.
[E] Waiting silent in the [B] shadows like a devil at the [A] crossroads playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
You [C#m] can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
You [C#m] can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [F#m] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
[A] [E]
[B] [E]
While the charlatans are shouting propaganda on the mountain [A] truth is [B] spoken to an [E] empty house.
If you ask for my opinion are you trying to make a [A] difference or find something [B] to complain [E] about?
[C#m] When indulgence and consumption [B] leave a landscape of destruction [E] where it's far too late to
turn [A] back now.
[E] I'll be moving on my [B] own way down the existential highway [A] playing [B] fiddle watching Rome [E] burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A] Playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[F#m] Playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A]
[E] [B] [E] [A]
[B] [E]
Yeah.
[G] Hot.
Feels like Rome's [C#] burning down.
[D#] Like hot.
[D] [B] God thanks a lot.
Let me get my songwriter costume off.
Hang on.
Costume change.
I don't [A#] know.
Sleep.
I don't know about that t-shirt.
Oh shit that's right.
It's just a personal [G#] opinion it's not an artistic.
It's all good I'll make sure the guitar covers it.
It's [G] covering it up.
Yeah if anyone's even remotely offended by that the bandana covers the F.
Yeah yeah.
Right.
Well the whole thing Keith [A#] Richards wore this in the 60s so like.
Oh he did?
Yeah I got it off his [E] corpse it was cool.
[Em] Zombified corpse.
[A#] Americans know nothing about history.
[G] Got it off his corpse the first time he died.
The first time.
Back [G#m] in 1986.
The reincarnation of Keith Richards.
Key:
E
B
A
C#m
F#m
E
B
A
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] Legend has it Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned.
[B] But I have a guitar.
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ In the dawn of desperation when the peasants are beheading every [B] emperor with a [E] golden crown.
First they'll stand with one another then they'll turn against each other under [B] thunder
on a [E] battleground.
_ With [C#m] their torches, tar and [B] feathers off to round up all the [E] witches on a rail to run
them out [A] of town.
_ [E] In a kingdom that's [B] collapsing I'm relaxing on the ashes playing fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
[A] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _
You can dance around the fire with the hand that holds the power [A] or go [B] cower with the
gagged [E] and bound. _
While the vultures count the profits and the hawks are launching rockets [A] in a garden [B] growing [E] mushroom clouds.
[C#m] You can storm the ivory towers [B] but the knight in shining [E] armor's days are numbered on the
[A] body count. _
[E] So I'm laughing up in heaven [B] in the arms of Armageddon [A] playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down. _
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A] Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [F#m] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ Where the tricksters and the grifters and the rich carnival [A] barkers sell their sulfur
[B] to the [E] spellbound crowd. _
Buying tickets to the promise of a better world to come [A] and left with nothing [B] when their
hope [E] runs out.
[C#m] There's a lifeboat overflowing [B] on a rising violent ocean [E] in the darkness where the sails [A] drown.
_ [E] But I'm smiling on an island [B] by the tidal wave horizon [A] playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
_ [B] _
_ _ _ _ If you're screaming in defiance are you David or [A] Goliath when the [B] riot rage is [E] all around?
_ Call it vengeance, call it justice, call it progress, call it [A] selfish, either way [B] I'm
gonna [E] have my doubts.
[C#m] Maybe I'm just causing [B] problems thinking I know how to solve [E] them so for once I'm gonna
shut [A] my mouth.
[E] Waiting silent in the [B] shadows like a devil at the [A] crossroads playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
You [C#m] can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
You [C#m] can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [F#m] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down. _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
While the charlatans are shouting propaganda on the mountain [A] truth is [B] spoken to an [E] empty house.
If you ask for my opinion are you trying to make a [A] difference or find something [B] to complain [E] _ about?
[C#m] When indulgence and consumption [B] leave a landscape of destruction [E] where it's far too late to
turn [A] back now.
[E] I'll be moving on my [B] own way down the existential highway [A] playing [B] fiddle watching Rome [E] burn _ down.
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A] Playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[F#m] Playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A] _
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Yeah.
_ [G] Hot.
_ Feels like Rome's [C#] burning down.
[D#] Like hot.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [B] God thanks a lot.
Let me get my songwriter costume off.
Hang on. _ _ _
_ _ Costume change.
I don't [A#] know.
Sleep.
I don't know about that t-shirt.
Oh shit that's right. _
It's just a personal [G#] opinion it's not an artistic.
It's all good I'll make sure the guitar covers it.
It's [G] covering it up.
Yeah if anyone's even remotely offended by that the bandana covers the F.
Yeah yeah.
Right.
Well the whole thing Keith [A#] Richards wore this in the 60s so like.
Oh he did?
Yeah I got it off his [E] corpse it was cool. _ _ _ _
[Em] Zombified corpse.
[A#] Americans know nothing about history.
[G] Got it off his corpse the first time he died.
The first time.
_ Back [G#m] in 1986.
_ _ The reincarnation of Keith Richards. _
_ _ _ [F] Legend has it Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned.
[B] But I have a guitar.
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ In the dawn of desperation when the peasants are beheading every [B] emperor with a [E] golden crown.
First they'll stand with one another then they'll turn against each other under [B] thunder
on a [E] battleground.
_ With [C#m] their torches, tar and [B] feathers off to round up all the [E] witches on a rail to run
them out [A] of town.
_ [E] In a kingdom that's [B] collapsing I'm relaxing on the ashes playing fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
[A] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _
You can dance around the fire with the hand that holds the power [A] or go [B] cower with the
gagged [E] and bound. _
While the vultures count the profits and the hawks are launching rockets [A] in a garden [B] growing [E] mushroom clouds.
[C#m] You can storm the ivory towers [B] but the knight in shining [E] armor's days are numbered on the
[A] body count. _
[E] So I'm laughing up in heaven [B] in the arms of Armageddon [A] playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down. _
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A] Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [F#m] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ Where the tricksters and the grifters and the rich carnival [A] barkers sell their sulfur
[B] to the [E] spellbound crowd. _
Buying tickets to the promise of a better world to come [A] and left with nothing [B] when their
hope [E] runs out.
[C#m] There's a lifeboat overflowing [B] on a rising violent ocean [E] in the darkness where the sails [A] drown.
_ [E] But I'm smiling on an island [B] by the tidal wave horizon [A] playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
_ [B] _
_ _ _ _ If you're screaming in defiance are you David or [A] Goliath when the [B] riot rage is [E] all around?
_ Call it vengeance, call it justice, call it progress, call it [A] selfish, either way [B] I'm
gonna [E] have my doubts.
[C#m] Maybe I'm just causing [B] problems thinking I know how to solve [E] them so for once I'm gonna
shut [A] my mouth.
[E] Waiting silent in the [B] shadows like a devil at the [A] crossroads playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
You [C#m] can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [A] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down.
You [C#m] can find me playing [A] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn [F#m] down.
Playing [B] fiddle watching [E] Rome burn down. _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
While the charlatans are shouting propaganda on the mountain [A] truth is [B] spoken to an [E] empty house.
If you ask for my opinion are you trying to make a [A] difference or find something [B] to complain [E] _ about?
[C#m] When indulgence and consumption [B] leave a landscape of destruction [E] where it's far too late to
turn [A] back now.
[E] I'll be moving on my [B] own way down the existential highway [A] playing [B] fiddle watching Rome [E] burn _ down.
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A] Playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[C#m] You can find me playing fiddle [A] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[F#m] Playing fiddle [B] watching Rome [E] burn down.
[A] _
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Yeah.
_ [G] Hot.
_ Feels like Rome's [C#] burning down.
[D#] Like hot.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [B] God thanks a lot.
Let me get my songwriter costume off.
Hang on. _ _ _
_ _ Costume change.
I don't [A#] know.
Sleep.
I don't know about that t-shirt.
Oh shit that's right. _
It's just a personal [G#] opinion it's not an artistic.
It's all good I'll make sure the guitar covers it.
It's [G] covering it up.
Yeah if anyone's even remotely offended by that the bandana covers the F.
Yeah yeah.
Right.
Well the whole thing Keith [A#] Richards wore this in the 60s so like.
Oh he did?
Yeah I got it off his [E] corpse it was cool. _ _ _ _
[Em] Zombified corpse.
[A#] Americans know nothing about history.
[G] Got it off his corpse the first time he died.
The first time.
_ Back [G#m] in 1986.
_ _ The reincarnation of Keith Richards. _