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Mandelbrot Set by Jonathan Coulton
Mandelbrot Set
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
E Riff
Eadd9 E Esus4 E
e|-------------------|
B|-------------------|
G|-------------------|
D|--4----6--6h7---6--|
A|--2----7--7-----7--|
E|--0----0--0-----0--|
E 022100 B7 x21202
A x02220 E7 022130
F#m 244222 G# 466544
B7 x21202 C#m x46654
Amaj7 x02120 B x2444x
Emaj7 x7989x F#11 244300 (F#7add11)
[Intro]
Esus2 E E Esus4 E Esus2 E
[Verse 1]
E (riff) A F#m
Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician
A B7 E
Every one of them is a splinter in my eye
E
I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve
A F#m
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set
A B7 E
The Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry
Amaj7 Emaj7 Amaj7 Emaj7
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
Amaj7 Emaj7 F#m B7 E (riff) x2
On a cold November day.. a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born
[Verse 2]
E (riff) A F#m
His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights
A B7 E (riff)
Left him well equipped to face those demons down
E A F#m
He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules
A B E
He used his giant brain to turn the game around
Amaj7 Emaj7
And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head
Amaj7 Emaj7
A bulbous pointy form
F#m B E B7 E B7
He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down
[Pre-Chorus]
E B7 E B7
Take a point called C in the complex plane
E B7 E B7
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
E B7 E B7
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
E B7 E (break)
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
A B7
If the series of Z's should always stay
Ab C#m B
Close to C and never trend away
A B7 E (break)
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
[Chorus]
B7
Mandelbrot Set, you're a Rorschach Test on fire
E
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
B7
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
E E7
You're one badass fucking fractal
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7 E (riff) x4
You can change the world in a tiny way
[Verse 3]
E (hold) A F#m
Mandelbrot's in heaven, at least he will be when he's dead
A B7 E (riff)
Right now he's still alive and teaching math at Yale
E (riff) A F#m
He gave us order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none
A B7 E
And his geometry succeeds where others fail
Amaj7 Emaj7 Amaj7 Emaj7
If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings
Amaj7 Emaj7 F#m B7 E B7 E B7
From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home
[Pre-Chorus]
E B7 E B7
Take a point called C in the complex plane
E B7 E B7
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
E B7 E B7
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
E B7 E (break)
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
A B7
If the series of Z's should always stay
Ab C#m B
Close to C and never trend away
A B7 E (break)
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
[Final Chorus]
B7
Mandelbrot Set, you're a Rorschach Test on fire
E
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
B7
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
E E7
You're one badass fucking fractal
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7 E (riff)
You can change the world in a tiny way
[Tag]
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7
You can change the world in a tiny way
F#11 Amaj7
Go on change the world in a tiny way
F#11 Amaj7
Come on, change the world in a tiny way
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