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The Smashing Pumpkins – Cyr Chord Progression on Piano & Ukulele

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[Intro]
Cm  Cm  Ab  Cm  x2

[Verse 1]
Cm
Fragments form the mind
Cm
Shadows hold the mist
Ab                Cm     Eb
Fractured as this wish
Cm
Shattered I resign
Cm                               Ab
We’re on the verge, we’re on the verge
Cm                         Eb
Of sacred dawning and sloe-sloe eyes

[Chorus]
Cm
Say, I done told you
Cm
Say how I tried, too
             Ab          
Where you’ve wrought from
            Cm      Eb
 creation’s crown
Cm
Say, dire warning
Cm
Stare down your masters
         Ab                
With the promise of one and 
          Cm                       Eb
what you are...We're on the verge

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[Interlude]
Cm  Cm  Ab  Cm

[Verse 2]
Cm
Tangents vex thе world
Cm              
The void arrives, 
                Ab
then lеaves resounding
                       Cm  
Returning, returning a kiss
                  Eb
 for lovers built the dream

[Chorus]
Cm
Say, I done told you
Cm
Say how I tried, too
             Ab           
Where you’ve wrought from 
           Cm       Eb
creation’s crown
Cm
Say, dire warning
Cm
Stare down your masters
         Ab                 
With the promise of one and
         Cm                       Eb
 what you are...We're on the verge

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[Bridge]
        Cm
Did the times, wind, 
Did the crowd, kind
      Cm
Aping youth, wise, Ever lost, ides
           Ab
‘Midst the chaff, as meek,
 And those weak, as sand
        Cm                   
Turning glass upside down for 
                        Eb
the hours should they pass

[Chorus]
Cm
Say, I done told you
Cm
Say how I tried, too
             Ab          
Where you’ve wrought from
            Cm      Eb
 creation’s crown
Cm
Say, dire warning
Cm
Stare down your masters
         Ab                
With the promise of one and 
          Cm                       Eb
what you are...We're on the verge

[Interlude]
Cm  Cm

Ab                                Cm     Eb
(We're on the verge) We're on the verge
Cm  Cm  Ab

[Outro]
             Cm     Eb
We're on the verge

How to play Cyr: key, chords and progression

This is the chords of Cyr by The Smashing Pumpkins on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

Cyr by The Smashing Pumpkins keeps coming home to C minor (three flats: B♭, E♭, A♭). You need 3 chords: Cm, Ab and Eb.

The progression the song keeps returning to is Cm – Ab – Cm – Eb (i – VI – i – III in C minor). Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 1st fret and play the shapes Bm, G, D (67% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 0% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.