The Future Soon/Tabs

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

I’ll probably be some kind of scientist
Building inventions in my space lab in space
I’ll end world hunger I’ll make dolphins speak
Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends
Perfecting my warrior robot race
Building them one laser gun at a time
I will do my best to teach them
About life and what it’s worth
I just hope that I can keep them from destroying the Earth

Repeat chorus

Bridge

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

I’ll see her standing by the monorail
She’ll look the same except for bionic eyes
She lost the real ones in the robot wars
I’ll say I’m sorry, she’ll say it’s not your fault
Or is it?
And she eyes me suspiciously
Hearing the whir of the servos inside
She will scream and try to run
But there’s nowhere she can hide
When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride

Repeat chorus

Lessons

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