Chords for The First Rebreather by Big Big Train live at The Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands, September 2022

_ Well, thank you!
Welcome! _ _ _
_ _ _ So, good evening, everybody.
_ Are you doing alright? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Hey! _ _ _
So, we are really happy to be here and I hope you'll enjoy the show as we are enjoying. _
Are you?
Yeah?
Yes, yes.
Alright.
So, you may _ know this next song and it's called The First Rebreather. _ _ _ _
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_ [A#] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [A#] In a place _ [D] where [Am] the river banks [D] so near _
[A#] Men walk, _ [Am] heading to the [D] west
[A#] Where streets [Am] like giant [D] fingers close
[A#] From the hills [Am] to the emptiness _ [Dm] beneath
[A#] To the depths [Am] of the mid [A] _ [A] _
-moon [D] _ light
[D] _ _ [E] _ _
[D] Midwinter _ sun _ [C#m] _ _
_ [D] _ underneath _ [E] the _ _ [G] river's side
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_ [A#] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ In _ a place where the road back stroll
Clothes and [A#] _ _ gravestone [D] he made
_ _ Light and air _ are hard to _ find
Engines [A#] work to roll the water _ [D] _ back
To the [Dm] depths of [C] the _ year
_ [C#m] Roads [A] run _ _ _ [E] toward [D] the light
_ _ [C#m] _ [D] Rivers say _ [Bm] the _ [B] tall [D] _ say
[A] She grows, _ her sleep [G] awakes
Ten _ thousand _
[A] years she laid _ _ awake for the _ [D] earth
_ _ _ [A#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ Every night her dreams were filled
With the fear _ of the river breaking
But this [A#] was _ not [D] a river _ god
This [A#] was something _ _ [C] rising from [D] the _ _ [A#] depths _ of the _ year
[C#m] _ _
Road, [A] place, flood, _ [Em] for _ [D] the [Bm] light
_ [C#m] _ [B] Save yourselves, [Bm] the _ _ [B] [D] tunnel's safe
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First [G] _ _ rebreather, like a [A] _ _ moon, like _ a solar _ _ _
Come to _ save _ them _
_ [Bm] _ Rising _ [G] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ up to [F#] the height of [B] the _ _ [Bm] river _ _ [F#] That _ floated
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Engines [G] fail, _ _ [F#m] lost to [G] the _ _ [Em] water
Earth _ as _ _ [C#] silence _ _
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ [Em] _ rolls
_ This man [A] will walk into _ _ _ _ time _
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_ _ _ _ _ One foot [D] in front of [Bm] the _ _ _ eye _ _ _ _ _
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Into [G] the _ _ [F#] unsounded depths [B] of the heady
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_ _ [B] _ _ Into [G] the fifth circle [A] of hell
With the [G] light still in the [B] hole
_ _ [Bm] Man is [G#] all alone
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ This man [D] will walk [Bm] into _ _ _ _ _ _ darkness _ _
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Without fear of [D] what lurks in [B] the _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ Watching [D] the _ [A] surface [Bm] grow _
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