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Tallest Man On Earth: Lion's Heart

Written by The Tallest Man on Earth (Kristian Mattson)
Released on The Wild Hunt (2010)
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

Capo 8th fret (sounding key Eb major)
Tuning: Open G (DGdgbd’)
Intro:

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                            There's a
            
Verse:

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    pa -    lace a - fallin'  There's a smoke   in   the sky      There's a
    catching     the train to where he's    heard you have been   He's a
            
  C/g                                 D7
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  boy     running   downhill to the   lowlands     to - night.  And he's
  fool    now a -  mong us,     a     dreamer      with-in,     dreaming of
            
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  you
            
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                                                             And on that...
            
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  day     there was snowfall in the   street, yellow    light.  And they
            
  C/g                                 D7
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  cleared the bill and rails just by those dark shimmer eyes    In that
            
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land      there's a winter, In that      winter's a    day,     in  that
            
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  day     there's a moment    when it all     goes your way,    and you
            
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  know it's a       lion's      heart                           That will
            
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  tumble      and   tear a  -   part
            
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                            when he's coming down the   hills      for      you.
            
But can you still now remember who's been hiding up there?
Through his howling at twilight all his songs of despair?
Do you remember the caller of a black and white crime?
Well he lives by that memory and falls from his mind
            
And you know it's a lion's heart
That will tumble and tear apart
When he's coming down the hills for you
            
Well he'll

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  walk    in the    city        for - ever                  Oh,
  no      real goodbye         if you mean it               So I
                
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  walk    in a      time    to be     gone                   Well there's
  guess   I'm for - ever        a  -  lone
                
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                      Now he's a
                
Now he's a stranger among us, he will die in the park
Where he hides from the statues and the weather remarks
In that land there's a winter
In that winter's a day
In that day there's a moment when it all goes away
            
And you know it's a lion's heart
That will tumble and tear apart
When it's coming down the hills for you
            

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