Chord Mandelbrot Set by Jonathan Coulton

cheerfully stolen from : fear not , though! it falls under the creative commons attribution - noncommercial 3 . 0 unported license! yay! yay? yes , yay! as long as credit is given and this is not used for commercial purposes , you can use it . which i did . hurray . original transcription by m_pony , revised by suuuupaadave . E riff Eadd9 E Esus4 E | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | | - - 4 - - - - 6 - - 6h7 - - - 6 - | | - - 2 - - - - 7 - - 7 - - - - - 7 - | | - - 0 - - - - 0 - - 0 - - - - - 0 - | 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 2 xon 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 G# 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 fxxking 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 4 xyou 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 G# 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 fxxking 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