People Are Like Suns

Here you should barre all the normal major/minor chords (they're defined at the bottom) except for E, which is open. This song reminds me of "Try Whistling This," in that its chord progressions are very chromatic, but somehow the key is never in question.

In the chorus, the "A" chord is heavily implied, but I don't think the boys actually play it; Nick doesn't play an A, in any case. Still, if playing this as a solo piece it fleshes things out a bit, and certainly doesn't break any rules.

I think there's some clever mixing going on with the "B" chords in the chorus (and perhaps elsewhere); there seems to be a really veiled 7th note in there somewhere, so that you mostly hear a plain B but feel a B7. Maybe it sounds crazy, but I've learned that mixing engineers have many such tricks up their sleeves. It makes sense, though; B7 plays the dominant to the following E chord, and it sounds nice on solo guitar, in the choruses at least.

For me this is the most uniquely "Finn-ish" song on the album, and one of the best tracks.

Intro

D#7(b13)   A   (A7)
G#m        G

Verse

D#7(b13)       A
Sweet madness, it must be wrong

(A7)         G#m                               G
What kind of fool imagines love, with all this going on

D#7(b13)          A                (A7)
The stars burning in the empty sky

        G#m                   G
And the city is aflame with a million lights

         B                        Esus2
And they come and they go, in the blink of an eye

Chorus

G          (A)  B7          
People are like suns

            E          Eadd2
And they're burning up inside

G          (A)  B7
People are like suns

(Repeat Verse and Chorus)

Bridge


(...like suns)

 
          F#m7
Breathing into life

           E6/G#
All that's good in us

      G#m   B7         
We've since become

(Verse)

D#7(b13)
Oooh

A
It can't be helped

                G#m
Doesn't stop me thinking out aloud

           G
I could've done something

Chorus/Outro

         B                Esus2
And they come and they go

         B                Esus2
And they come and they go

         B                Esus2
And they come and they go


G          (A)  B     G          (A)  B
People are like suns, people are like suns

G          (A)  B
People are like suns


        F#m7
They go out tonight

         D#7(b13)
Set this town alive

        A
Or fade into white

B