Brighter Than A Thousand Suns chords by Iron Maiden

🤘 Intro:
E E E  E F# G B C
E E E  D F# G B C
2X



🤘 Verse 1:
E
We are not the sons of God
E
We are not his chosen people now
E
We have crossed the path he trod
E
We will feel the pain of his beginning

E
Shadow fingers rise above
E
Iron fingers stab the desert sky
E
Oh behold the power of man
E
On its tower, ready for the fall

E E E  E F# G B C
E E E  D F# G B C
2X

🤘 Verse 2:
E
Knocking heads together well
E
Raise a city, build a living hell
E
Join the race to suicide
E
Listen for the tolling of the bell

E E E  E F# G B C
E E E  D F# G B C

🤘 Chorus:
C       A
 Out of the universe
   G       F
A strange love is born
C    A
 Unholy union
 G    F
Trinity reformed

E E E  E F# G B C
E E E  D F# G B C

🤘 Verse 3:
E
Yellow sun its evil twin
E
In the black the wings deliver him
E
We will split our souls within
E
Atom seed to nuclear dust is riven

E E E  E F# G B C
E E E  D F# G B C

🤘 Chorus:
C       A
 Out of the universe
   G       F
A strange love is born
C    A
 Unholy union
 G    F
Trinity reformed


E C A F
2X

🤘 Chorus:
E      C
 Out of the darkness
      A       F
Brighter than a thousand suns
E      C
 Out of the darkness
      A       F
Brighter than a thousand suns
E      C
 Out of the darkness
      A       F
Brighter than a thousand suns
E      C
 Out of the darkness
      A       F
Brighter than a thousand suns
E      C
 Out of the darkness
      A       F
Brighter than a thousand suns
E      C
 Out of the darkness
      A       F
Brighter than a thousand suns

🤘 Solo:
E C A B C G F# E
4X

E C A F
2X

🤘 Bridge:
E           C
Bury your morals and bury your dead
 A           F
Bury your head in the sand
E       C
E=MC squared, you can relate
 A            F
How we made God with our hands

E C D
2X

 E             C
Whatever would Robert have said to his God
 A               F
About how we made war with the sun
E       C
E=MC squared, you can relate
 A            F
How we made God with our hands

🤘 Verse 4:
E         C   D
 All nations are rising
E       C    D    E
 Through acid veils of love and hate
E         C   D E
 Chain letters of Satan
E       C    D    E
 Uncertainty leads us all to this
A         F
 All nations are rising
    A            F
Through acid veils of love and hate
A         F
 Cold fusion and fury

B

E (Initial Riff)

E E E  E F# G B C
E E E  D F# G B C
2X

🤘 Verse 5:
E
Divide and conquer while ye may
E
Others preach and others fall and pray
E
In the bunkers where we'll die
E
Where the executioners they lie

E E E  E F# G B C
E E E  D F# G B C

E
Bombers launch with no recall
E
Minutes warning of the missile fall
E
Take a look at your last sky
E
Guessing you won't have the time to cry

E E E  E F# G B C
E E E  D F# G B C

🤘 Chorus:
C       A
 Out of the universe
   G       F
A strange love is born
C    A
 Unholy union
 G    F
Trinity reformed

E  C  A   F

🤘 Chorus:
E      C     A  F
 Out of the darkness
E      C     A  F
 Out of the darkness
E      C
 Out of the darkness
      A   B    C  G F# E
Brighter than a thousand suns
E      C
 Out of the darkness
      A   B    C  G F# E
Brighter than a thousand suns
E      C
 Out of the darkness
      A   B    C  G F# E
Brighter than a thousand suns
E      C
 Out of the darkness
      A   B    C  G F# E
Brighter than a thousand suns
E      C
 Out of the darkness
      A   B    C  G F# E
Brighter than a thousand suns


E (Initial Riff)

Holy Father we have sinned