F#m           C#
Bang went the gun on their tongue
F#m                     Bm
Word crucifixion toward immigrants shunned
E                       C# C#/B C#/A  C#/G#
"Immigrants. That's who we all  are
             A   A/G#    F#m
'cause we're all made of stars,"
            D
you said to them
           C#   C#/B  C#/A   C#/G#
Oh yes you did


[Verse 2]

F#m           C#
Bang went the universe
D#m/A#               Bm
Hydrogen lusting for helium's burst
E                       C#     C#/B C#/A  C#/G#
A mighty sun's dance of death, exp--lo----ding
A  Bm  F#m
Su-per nova
            D
One story's end,
                 C#     C#/B  C#/A   C#/G#
seeds another to begin


[Chorus]

D                F#m
Then the heavens opened and then
D              F#m
I heard voices joined in hosannas
D               A   C#   D
breathlessly. I saw your star


[Bridge]

A            G       A
So bright it blinded me
  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes
A            G       A
So bright it blinded me
  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes
A            G       A
So bright it blinded me
  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes
D                    Bm
And then you took my hand
           C#  C#/B  C#/A  C#/G#
Oh yes you did


[Verse 3]

F#m             C#
Bang the world. Now traumatized
D#m/A#                  Bm
by a cluster of hostile humans who side
E                      C#   C#/B C#/A  C#/G#
with their warlords of hate so   we    must
A   Bm F#m
out-create
                      D
with 'The Backbone of Night'
          C#   C#/B  C#/A   C#/G#
to re-humanize


[Chorus 2]

D                F#m
Then the heavens opened and then
D              F#m
I heard voices joined in hosannas
D               F#m
And their tower of confusion
D                    A
Could not drown the light
C#        D
From your star


[Bridge]

A            G       A
So bright it blinded me
  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes
A            G       A
So bright it blinded me
  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes
A            G       A
So bright it blinded me
  D      G         F#m
I had to shield my eyes
D                    Bm
And then you lit the path
           C#  C#/B  C#/A  C#/G#
Oh yes you did


[Outro]

F#m                  C#
   "Can't they see,"   he said to me,
D#m/A#         Bm    D         C#
  "that we all   are molecular    machines?"
D                  F#dim/C
  Goals and dreams.       All I wanna be
C#             C#/B     C#/A  C#/G#
   is the very best machine   I can be
F#m        C#
   Oxygen     and Carbon
D#m/A#  Bm    D         C#
part of   our molecular    machines


D                  F#dim/C
  Goals and dreams.       All I wanna be
C#             C#/B     C#/A  C#/G#
   is the very best machine   I can be


F#m         C#
   Hydrogen,  calcium
D#m/A#      Bm  D        C#
phosphorus, po--tassium, sulfur
D         F#dim/C
  Sodium.        All I wanna be
C#             C#/B     C#/A  C#/G#
   is the very best machine   I can be
F#m       C#
Chlorine,   magnesium
D#m/A#   Bm   D    C#
Boron,   chromium, cobalt
D                F#dim/C
Copper, fluorine.       All I wanna be
C#             C#/B     C#/A  C#/G#
   is the very best machine   I can be
F#m      C#
Iodine,    iron, manganese
D#m/A#      Bm        D         C#
Molybdenum, nitrogen, selenium, silicon, tin
   D               F#dim/C
vanadium, and zinc.       All I wanna be
  Bm   C#   F#m
a molecular machine.