A Short History of Nearly Everything Tabs & Lyrics by Reuben

A Short History of Nearly Everything

guitar tabs lyrics

Reuben

A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING

BASS INTRO

VERSE 1
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Do you remember our best adventure?
Stealing off to climb Westers Hill?
Creeping out of the house at midnight..
Do you remember on the way down after?
Cut my leg wide open on the fence,
I cried, i cried, i cried...

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PM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

It was just a hill we climbed
That night, but it felt like

BRIDGE 1
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The top of the world,
'I'm on top of the world, ma!'

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'Top of the world!'
I'm on top of the world...

VERSE 2

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'Our teachers had faith in their lessons, their doctrine'

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'These facts are unreliable, these cracks are undeniable...'

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'Undeniable'

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PIANO INTERLUDE
You said...
Do you feel the warmth beneath your feet?
That is because the earth is so very old,
They should have warned us years ago,
We should have been told...

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That secret kept, by Mum and Dad,
Which covered everything...

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'At first it's dark, and then it's light,
And then it's dark again...'

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OUTRO

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You're bleeding,
But it's alright
We'll stay awake the whole night
'Cause i found a rock in an ancient place
And it's older than the human race
So let's build a fire, a homing light
For astronauts and sattelites

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For Scientists with soldier's hearts,

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And pioneers of earthly arts...

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YEAH!

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You, and me, we're dead, in the blink of an eye,
We're dead,
We're gone,
We're dead, in a blink of the earth's eye.