Song: Banner
Artist: LIGHTS
Album: Siberia (check it out!)
2011
This is an acoustical rendition of "Banner" by LIGHTS I made by ear. I don't think
it is 100% in accordance to the album version, but the vocals and chords all sound
pretty good together. Here is a youtube video of me performing if you want to hear
it: http://youtu.be/i8zY08p0GmI
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
G 320003
G* 320033
C 032010
C* 03x033
Cmaj7 032000
Esus4 022200
Em 022000
D 000232 (or you can not strum the sixth string if you like)
Verse 1
G G
Maybe it's bricks and mortar now
C C
Whether or not they run it down
G G
I don't want anything
C C
To shake that shape away
G G
No one told us which way to come
C C
Nobody mapped oblivion
G G C
So I go growing roses in a disarray
Refrain 1
Cmaj7 Esus4
Just like most falling head in
Cmaj7 Esus4
Til my ghost fills the bed in
Chorus 1
Emin C
So lift it up like a banner
G D
Hold it up over me
Em C
If this war is never ending
D
I take this love
G* G*
Down with me
C* C*
Like a banner
G* G* C* C*
Verse 2
G G
I don't need fate to give it time
C C
It doesn't take pain to change your mind
G G C C
No weapon can sever the soul from me
Refrain 2
Cmaj7 Esus4
Not the sorceress not the money
Cmaj7 Esus4
All my cleverness all my cunning
Chorus 2
Emin C
So lift it up like a banner
G D
Hold it up over me
Em C
If this war is never ending
D
I take this love
G* G*
Down with me
C* C*
Like a banner
G* G* C* C*
Bridge(2x)
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
It's around me in my surroundings
Esus4 Esus4
It counts me when it starts the counting
Cmaj7 Cmaj7
In the chaos there is a standard
Esus4 Esus4
I'm carrying it like a banner
Chorus 3 (final)
(Emin) C
So lift it up like a banner
G D
Hold it up over me
Em C
If this war is never ending
D
I take this love
G*
Down with me