Mandelbrot Set Chords & Lyrics by Jonathan Coulton
Mandelbrot Set
guitar chords lyrics
Cheerfully stolen from:
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/index.php/Mandelbrot_Set/Tabs
Fear not, though! It falls under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported
license! Yay! Yay? Yes, yay! As long as credit is given and this is not used for commercial
purposes, you can use it. Which I did. Hurray.
Original transcription by M_pony, revised by Suuuupaadave.
E Riff
Eadd9 E Esus4 E
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|--4----6--6h7---6-|
|--2----7--7-----7-|
|--0----0--0-----0-|
Intro:
Esus2 E E-Esus4 E Esus2-E
Verse 1
E(riff) A F#m
Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician
A B7 E
Every one of them is a splinter in my eye
E
I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve
A F#m
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set
A B7 E
The Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry
Amaj7 Emaj7 Amaj7 Emaj7
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
Amaj7 Emaj7 F#m B7 E(riff) 2x
On a cold November day.. a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born
Verse 2
E(riff) A F#m
His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights
A B7 E(riff)
Left him well equipped to face those demons down
E A F#m
He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules
A B E
He used his giant brain to turn the game around
Amaj7 Emaj7
And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head
Amaj7 Emaj7
A bulbous pointy form
F#m B E B7 E B7
He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down
Pre Chorus
E B7 E B7
Take a point called C in the complex plane
E B7 E B7
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
E B7 E B7
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
E B7 E (break)
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
A B7
If the series of Z's should always stay
Ab C#m B
Close to C and never trend away
A B7 E (break)
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
Chorus
B7
Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire
E
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
B7
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
E E7
You're one badass fucking fractal
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7 E(riff)4x
You can change the world in a tiny way
Verse 3
E (hold) A F#m
Mandelbrot's in heaven, at least he will be when he's dead
A B7 E(riff)
Right now he's still alive and teaching math at Yale
E(riff) A F#m
He gave us order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none
A B7 E
And his geometry succeeds where others fail
Amaj7 Emaj7 Amaj7 Emaj7
If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings
Amaj7 Emaj7 F#m B7 E B7 E B7
From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home
Pre Chorus
E B7 E B7
Take a point called C in the complex plane
E B7 E B7
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
E B7 E B7
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
E B7 E (break)
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
A B7
If the series of Z's should always stay
Ab C#m B
Close to C and never trend away
A B7 E (break)
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
Final Chorus
B7
Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire
E
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
B7
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
E E7
You're one badass fucking fractal
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7 E(riff)
You can change the world in a tiny way
Tag
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7
You can change the world in a tiny way
F#11 Amaj7
Go on change the world in a tiny way
F#11 Amaj7
Come on change the world in a tiny way
