The Future Soon/Tabs

Lessons

This song is covered in suuuupaadave's Lesson a Week series. The lesson for "The Future Soon" is available as a YouTube video.

suuuupaadave's video covers various interesting observations not expressed in the chord chart below (such as strumming patterns, notes about particular chords, and so on) and is therefore highly recommended.

Table of chords used

The following chord list is exactly that used in suuuupaadave's Lesson a Week 2 for "The Future Soon". The video is linked above, under Lessons.

A	x02220
A7	x02020
A7sus4	x02030
Aaug	xx7665
Bb	688766
Bm7	x24232
Bm	x24432
D	xx0232
Dsus4	xx0233
D7	xx0212
Dmaj7	xx0222
E	022100
Em	022000
F	133211
F#	244322
F#aug	x24332
G	320033

Chords

The following chords were originally transcribed by forum member tristan and revised and reformatted by forum member Khavell.

Verse 1

Note that these chords differ from those listed in store info for this song. Specifically, the chord for the lyrics, "thought she was," is listed as DM7/A, while Jonathan mentions that he plays Dmaj7 instead.

D                          F#
Last week I left a note on Laura’s desk

Bm                        D7
It said I love you signed anonymous friend

G                              Dmaj7
Turns out she’s smarter than I thought she was

G                             D           F#
She knows I wrote it, now the whole class does too

Bm                   Bbaug
And I’m alone during couple skate

Bm                           E
When she skates by with some guy on her arm

      G              A                  G           A
But I know that I’ll forget the look of pity in her face

         G            A               G           A
When I’m living in my solar dome on a platform in space

Chorus

                        D           A
Cause it’s gonna be the future soon

            Bm             G
And I won’t always be this way

          D                  A        
When the things that make me weak and strange get 

Em D/F#     G     A
engineered away

                  D          A
It’s gonna be the future soon

           Bm               G
I’ve never seen it quite so clear

    Gm              D               Em                A
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it’s already here

Verse 2

D                             F#
I’ll probably be some kind of scientist

Bm                        D7
Building inventions in my space lab in space

G                               Dmaj7
I’ll end world hunger I’ll make dolphins speak

G                                  D          F#
Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends

Bm                    Bbaug
Perfecting my warrior robot race

Bm                      E
Building them one laser gun at a time

       G             A
I will do my best to teach them

      G                  A
About life and what it’s worth

       G               A                 G           A
I just hope that I can keep them from destroying the Earth

Repeat chorus

Bridge

These are the chords used in the studio recording of the song that appears in the store. In live performances, the last chord of the bridge is usually modified from an Aaug chord to a simpler A chord.

Bb                    F
Here on Earth they’ll wonder

     Bb             D
As I piece by piece replace myself

        Bb                      F
And the steel and circuits will make me whole

Em                     Asus
But I’ll still feel so alone

Em                   Aaug
Until Laura calls me home

Verse 3

D                            F#
I’ll see her standing by the monorail

Bm                              D7
She’ll look the same except for bionic eyes

G                             D7
She lost the real ones in the robot wars

G                              D        F#
I’ll say I’m sorry, she’ll say it’s not your fault

Bm
Or is it?

                   Bbaug
And she eyes me suspiciously

Bm                      E
Hearing the whir of the servos inside

         G                 A
She will scream and try to run

            G               A
But there’s nowhere she can hide

       G            A                 G         A
When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride

Repeat chorus