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
m
D7
t said I love you signed anonymous friend
Dmaj7
u ns out she’s smarter than I thought she was
D F# Sh kn
ws I wrote it, now the whole class does too
m
Bbaug
An
I’
alone during couple skate
Bm
E
When
she s ates by with some guy on her arm
G
A G A
But
know
that I’ll forget the look of pity in her face
G
A G A
When I
m livin
in my solar dome on a platform in space
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D A Cause
t’s gonna be the future soon
Bm G And I wo
’t always be this way
A When the t
ings that make me weak and strange get
Em D/F# G A engineered
away
D A It’s gonna
be the future soon
B
G I’ve never s
en it quite so clear
Gm
D Em A
And when my he
rt is breaking I can close my eyes and it’s already here
- Followed by [[#
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idge|Bridge]]===
=== F#
I
l probably be s me kind of scientis
Bm
D7
Building
i vention
n my space lab in s ace
G
Dmaj7
I ll end world hun e
I’ll make dolphins s
eak
G
D
Work through the dayti
e
spend my nights and we
kends
Bm
b ug
Perfecting my war
i r o ot race
Bm
Building them one l
s
un at a time
A
will do my best to t
a h them
G
A
About life and wha
t s worth
G
A
G
A
I just hope that I can k
e
them from destroying the
Earth
Repeat [[#Chorus|chor
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===cording of he 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
re on Earth they’ll wo d
Bb D
A
iece by piece replac
ys l
Bb
F
And the steel and c
r uits w ll make me whole
Em
A
u
But I’ll still feel so al
Em Aaug
U t l Laura calls me home
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D
=
=
I’ll see
===tanding by t
m
norail
Bm
7
She’ll look the same excep
o
ionic eyes
G
7
he lost the real ones in the ro o
wars
G
D
F# I’ll say I’m sorry, sh
’ l say i ’
not your fault
Bm
Or is it?
Bb
u
A
d
she eyes
m
uspiciously
Bm
Hearing the w i
of the s
rvos inside
G
A
She will
s r
m and try to run
G
A
But the
e s nowhere she can hide
G
A
When a crazy cyborg wants to make
y u hi
ro
ot bride
Repeat chorus
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