The Outsider / (intro) chords by 
Dj Shadow 
N/A
Key: G# minor•
Verse 1
G#m
B
G#m
In the twilight
of a time
B
G#m
There emerges a need for man to com
B
prehend his own bitter fate
G#m
B
G#m
Finally resigned to the inevitable bey ond,
B
G#m
he searches the ages
B
Desperate for stories of as surance,
G#m
B
G#m
redemption and hope
Verse 2
G#m
Such tales fill page upon page
with enough ink
To flood a thousand valleys,
B
G#m
and drown the tallest tree
But there is one tale that as yet been told
B
G#m
The story of... The Outsider
Verse 3
G#m
Desolate and baron,
F#
G#m
humanities at a crossroad s
B
The people have retreated
G#m
C#
shuttering their once carefree lives
G#m
From unseen enemies which seem to
plague not only the physical form
B
But the inner most thought
G#m
B
Driven by panic, compelled
Verse 4
G#m
by dread
B
G#m
The masses begin to devolve
Once dear neighbours
turn wary foes
F#
Brother again st brother,
G#m
sister against sister
Verse 5
B
Achievement and ambi tion are dismissed
G#m
C#
As heretic al, or worse,
B
treas onous
G#m
Even nature itself is scorned
B
Choked with suspicion and fear
G#m
Voices do not dare to sing
E
Nor fin gers to play
G#m
B
G#m
Imminent defeat is all but as sured
Verse 6
G#m
But in the darkest hour
Whispers begin to tell of a figure
emerging from the darkness
B
G#m
A being without a name,
B
faceless and ob scure
G#m
Part presence, part idea they say
B
As if the very force they de scribe
G#m
has existed for eons
B
G#m
B
A dormant seed awaiting nourishment
G#m
Word of radical acts...
Disobedience, non- compliance
spread among the people
B
G#m
At first fearful, then defiant,
B
as the legend grows
G#m
Whispers turned to cries
B
C#
G#m
and the cries into screams
B
And tend to cower no more the
G#m
fury of the people
B
Whose talent behold as they
C#m
E
exact revenge on their captor s
B
Spare neither the re
G#m
B
G#m
pentant nor the bold
B
G#m
Now the fire is lit,
Verse 7
B
smoulder ing in the belly of humanity
It cannot be extinguished,
for the stories The Outsider endure
Even as evidence of its presence is debated
with the passing years
Verse 8
Messages, dictations, warnings
Stories, such as these...
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG#m B F# C# E...
G#m
B
F#
C#
E
C#m
Capo: 4
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