WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Nightwish - The Greatest Show On Earth Chords | Ver. 1
[I. Four Point Six]
From 00:00 to 01:32
Dsus4 Dm E/D Dm Gmadd9/D Dm E/D Dm
Cm Eb A/C#
Dsus4 Dm E/D Dm Gmadd9/D Dm E/D Dm
Cm Eb A/C#
Gm Eb F Eb Gm Bb
Gm Eb F Eb Gm Bb C
From 01:32 to 02:57
Dm Fm Dm E Dm Ddim E Fm Dm E Fm Dm Bbmaj7 Dm Dmadd9
Dm C G Dm
Dm Bb Bb C Dm
Dm C G Dm
Dm Bb Bb C Bb C Dm
Dm Ddim Dm
From 02:57 to 04:28
Dsus4 Dm E7/D Dm Gmadd9/D Dm E/D Dm
Cm Eb A/C#
Dsus4 Dm E/D Dm Gmadd9/D Dm E/D Dm
Cm Eb A/C#
Gm Eb F Eb Gm Bb
Gm Eb F Eb Gm Bb C Dm
From 04:28 to 05:01
Dm Bb C G Bb C Dm
Bb C G C D Em
C D A C D Em
C D A/E Em A/E Em
From 05:01 to 05:46
Em D A Em
Em C C D Em
Em D A Em
Em C C D Em
[Lyrics sung by Floor Janses from 03:44 to 05:46]
Archaean horizon
The first sunrise
On a pristine Gaea
Opus perfectum
Somewhere there, us sleeping
[Spoken]
"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries
We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet
Sparkling with color, bountiful with life
Within decades we must close our eyes again
Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief
Time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe
And how we have come to wake up in it?"
[II. Life] (Guitar Part - Transpose 1 step up and play power chords with D Standard tuning)
From 05:46 to 06:15
Gm F C Gm
Gm Cm Bb F Gm F
Gm F C Gm
Gm Eb Eb F Gm F#
From 06:15 to 06:57
F Em F Em F Em Em F Em D F G F Em F Em F Em
F Em F Em F Em Em F Em D F G F Em F Em F Em Em Em G A Bb (x3)
[Lyrics] (spoken)
The cosmic law of gravity
Pulled the newborns around a fire
A careless, cold infinity
In every vast direction
Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone
She has a tale to tell
From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast
Enter LUCA
From 06:57 to 07:43
Bbm Eb Bbm Eb
The tapestry of chemistry
Gb Bbm Gb
There's a writing in the garden
Gb F
Leading us to the mother of all
Gm F
We are one
C Gm
We are the universe
Gm Cm Bb F Gm F
Forbears of what will be scions of the Devonian sea
Gm F C Gm
Aeons pass, writing the tale of us all
Gm Eb
A day-to-day new opening
Eb F Gm F#
For the greatest show on Earth
From 07:43 to 07:56
F Em F Em F Em Em F Em D F G F Em F Em F Em
F Em F Em F Em Em F Em D F G F Em F Em F Em Em Em G A Bb (x2)
[Lyrics] (spoken)
Ion channels
Welcoming the outside world to the stuff of stars
Bedding the tree of a biological holy
Enter life
From 07:56 to 08:43
Bbm Eb Bbm Eb
The tapestry of chemistry
Gb Bbm Gb
There's a writing in the garden
Gb F
Leading us to the mother of all
Gm F
We are one
C Gm
We are the universe
Gm Cm Bb F Gm F
Forbears of what will be scions of the Devonian sea
Gm F C Gm
Aeons pass, writing the tale of us all
Gm Eb
A day-to-day new opening
Eb F Gm
For the greatest show on Earth
From 08:43 to 09:12
Gm
Cm F
Gm
Cm F Gm F Ab
Gm F Gm F Eb Gm
Gm Cm F Gm
From 09:12 to 10:09
Cm Bb F Cm
We are here to care for the garden
Cm Bb F Cm Gm F Gm
The wonder of, birth of, every form most beautiful
F Eb Gm Cm F Gm F Ab
Every form most beautiful
Cm Bb
We are one
F Cm
We are the universe
Cm Fm Ab Bb Cm
Forbears of what will be scions of the Devonian sea
Gm F C Gm
Aeons pass, writing the tale of us all
Gm Eb
A day-to-day new opening
Eb F Gm F# Em
For the greatest show on Earth
[III. The Toolmaker] (Guitar Part - Transpose 1 step up and play power chords with D Standard tuning)
From 10:09 to 10:50
Em F# D/F# Em/G (x8)
From 10:50 to 11:30
Animal noises
From 11:29 to 11:53 (piano chords)
G Em Bb Em Bm C Em G Em (x4)
From 11:53 to 13:46
G Em Bb Em Bm C Em G Em Bb Em
G Em Bb Em Bm C Em G Em Bb Em C B (x2)
Em
After a billion years
Em
The show is still here
Em
Not a single one of your fathers died young
Em
The handy travelers out of Africa
Em C B Bb
Little Lucy of the Afar
Em
Gave birth to fantasy
Em
To idolatry
Em
To self destructive weaponry
Em
Enter the god of gaps
Em
Deep within the past
Em C B Bb
Atavistic dread of the hunted
G Em Bb Em Bm C Em G Em Bb Em
G Em Bb Em Bm C Em G Em Bb Em C B
Em
Enter Ionia
Em
The cradle of thought
Em
The architecture of understanding
Em
The human lust to feel so exceptional
Em C B Bb
To rule the Earth
Em
Hunger for shiny rocks
Em
For giant mushroom clouds
Em
The will to do just as you'd be done by
Em
Enter history
Em
The grand finale
Em C B Bb
Enter ratkind
Am
Man, he took his time in the sun
G Am
Had a dream to understand
G F
A single grain of sand
Am
He gave birth to poetry
G F
But one day'll cease to be
Dm F E
Greet the last light of the library
From 13:46 to 14:23
Hold E
Mixed sounds, along with Thomas of Celano's Dies Irae and Bach's Minuet in G
From 14:23 to 16:28
Em (played along with Bach's Toccata and Fugue, and Metallica's Enter Sandman)
C B Bb
E
C B Bb
Am
Man, he took his time in the sun
G Am
Had a dream to understand
G F
A single grain of sand
Am
He gave birth to poetry
G F
But one day'll cease to be
Dm F E
Greet the last light of the library
Am
Man, he took his time in the sun
G Am
Had a dream to understand
G F
A single grain of sand
Am
He gave birth to poetry
G F
But one day'll cease to be
Dm F E
Greet the last light of the library
C D
We were here!
Em
We were here!
C D
We were here!
Em (blast sound)
We were here!
[IV. The Understanding] (back to piano chords)
From 16:28 to 16:53
Mixed sounds
From 16:23 to 19:05
Em C D C Em
Em Am G D C Em (x2)
Gm Eb F Eb Gm
Gm Cm Bb F Eb Gm (x2)
From 19:05 to 20:40
Gm G Gm G Am/G G/B Cm G
Cm Bb F (x2)
Cm Bb/D Eb Fm/Ab Bbsus4 Bb
Cm Bb F (x2)
Cm Bb/D Eb Fm/Ab Cm
[Lyrics] (spoken)
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born
The potential people who could have been here in my place
But who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara
Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton
We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA
So massively exceeds the set of actual people
In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here
We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds
How dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state
From which the vast majority have never stirred?"
[V. Sea-Worn Driftwood]
From 20:40 to 24:01
[Instrumental]
Ambient sounds
[Lyrics] (spoken)
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers
Having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one
And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity
From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been
And are being, evolved"
Ends on sea and nature noises