Reply To: Chords for Mandelbrot Set?
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Mandelbrot Set - Jonathan Coulton
transcribed by M_pony
intro:
Esus2 E E-Esus4 E Esus2-E
E A F#m
Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician
A B 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 (A7) B E
The Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry
Amaj7 Emaj7
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
Amaj7 F#m B E
On a cold November day.. a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born
Esus2 E E-Esus4 E Esus2-E
E A F#m
His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights
A B E
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
He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down
E E Esus4 Esus4 (repeat) (throw in some Esus2 or E7 for flavour)
Take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
A A B B
If the series of Z’s should always stay
Ab Ab C#m C#m
Close to Z and never trend away
A B E (no chord)
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
B
Mandelbrot Set you’re a Rorschach Test on fire
E
You’re a day-glo pterodactyl
B
You’re a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
E E7
You’re one badass fucking fractal
F#m Amaj7
And you’re just in time to save the day
F#m Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#m A E
You can change the world in a tiny way
Esus2 E E-Esus4 E Esus2-E
E (hold) A F#m
Mandelbrot’s in heaven, at least he will be when he’s dead
A B E Esus4 E
Right now he’s still alive and teaching math at Yale
E A F#m
He gave us order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none
A (A7) B 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 B E
From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home
E E Esus4 Esus4 (repeat)
Take a point called Z in the complex plane
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
A A B B
If the series of Z’s should always stay
Ab Ab C#m C#m
Close to Z and never trend away
A B E (no chord)
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
B
Mandelbrot Set you’re a Rorschach Test on fire
E
You’re a day-glo pterodactyl
B
You’re a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
E E7
You’re one badass fucking fractal
F#m Amaj7
And you’re just in time to save the day
F#m Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#m A E
You can change the world in a tiny way
Esus2 E E-Esus4 E Esus2-E
F#m Amaj7
And you’re just in time to save the day
F#m Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#m Amaj7
You can change the world in a tiny way
F#m Amaj7
Go on change the world in a tiny way
F#m A
Come on change the world in a tiny way