Broken Line

Broken Line

Album: Gutter Anthems
Instruments: Guitar
Key: Bminor
Guitar Tuning: Standard tuning
Time Signature: 6/8, 6/4, 7/4

Note on time signature:
The first part of the song is either in 6/4 with random 3/4 measures thrown in, 6/8 with random 3/8 measures thrown in, or 6/8 with random 9/8 measures added. The outro is 3 measures of 7/4, followed by one measure of 6/4 (or two of 6/8), repeated. 

Guitar Part

This is really, really not a guitar song . . .
These chords are based on the piano part, and I'm sure there are many chord variations going on beyond what I have noted (such as Esus4's, etc). 

intro:

Bm9

Bm A E etc

verse:

Bm                     A           E

Restless is dawn as it wanders the farm house

  Bm                         A                  E

A new day awaits though he's worked through the night

Bm                     A               E

Patiently planting his thoughts on the pages

Bm                  A       E

Under the mumble of kerosene light

(repeat same pattern)

Off to the West you can feel it coming

A thick, steel vein for a river of power

Carelessly turning the earth into wasteland

As thousands of years disappear in an hour

chorus:

Bm     D           A                 E

   Hold your ground on the wrong side of the plough

Bm           D             A                   E

   They're closer now to a cold, black, broken line

Bm     D          A                  E

   Hold your ground when they come to cut you down

Bm          D               A                    E

  They're closer now to the rock that breaks the tines

verse:

Can't see what you do from back in the boardroom

Faceless equations of profit and cost

They wave you away like a fly on the radar

But keep coming back and you'll throw them off course

bridge:

A             B7     Einv      A

  Though it's always been this way

        B7        Einv      A

Doesn't mean that it's your fate

        B       E         G                     D     G  D

But you know it takes the strength of heart and mind

        G                 A(A7)               E  Esus4 E

And the faith someday the world will see your side

Bm                     A             E

Nothing is lost if you give yourself wholly

Bm                       A         E

Nothing is gained if you keep it inside

outro:

Gmaj7 Bm7 A D etc etc etc