Key: A major
Verse 1
G
Bm
G
D
C
D
Wake up now, this is the time you've waited for.
Interlude 1
A
G
Dm
E
Am
C
Dm
G
C
Em
F
C#
Ebm
C#
Absus4
C#
C#dim
C
Cm
Ebaug
G
Dm
Absus4
C#
Absus4
C#
Absus4
Ebm
Absus4
Verse 2
Bbm
Ab
Far below, where shadows
C
Eb
An army thousands strong,
Fm
Ab
obsessed by right and wrong,
Fsus4
F
Bbm
They sense their time is coming near.
Ab
F#
So they turn towards the light from
C
Fm
their region of the night,
Fsus4
F
it won't be long.
C#
Verse 3
You know you're on the way out,
B
F#
Absus4
C#
It's just a matter of time.
You thought you'd rule
the world forever,
Ab
C#
Long live the king,
Ebm
Absus4
Ebm
and don't spare the loser.
Verse 4
Bbm
Ab
After all, you're not what you
C
Edim
Fm
You're just a nat ural fact,
Fsus4
F
Bbm
ing trail.
Ab
F#
Now all those dreams of old will
C
Fm
be stories left untold,
Cut off in your prime,
Ab
Eb
Fm
Fsus4
F
extinct until the end of time.
C#
Verse 5
You know you're on the way out,
B
F#
Ebm
Absus4
C#
It's just a matter of time.
You thought you'd rule
the world forever,
Ebm
Absus4
Long live the king, but don't spare the
Interlude 2
C#
Ab
C#
Ab
Bbm
F
Ebm
Ab
Verse 6
C#
Ebm
Now the host emerges,
B
Ab
C#
and a shadow starts to fall.
Ab
C#
none can see at all.
Bdim
Bb
Even as the end approaches still
they're not aware,
When you don't even
know it's there?
And now that the job is almost done
A
C#
not even one.
Interlude 3
C#
D
Asus4
D
Gm
D
Asus4
G
A
Absus4
C#
Verse 7
B
F#
Absus4
C#
It's just a matter of time.
You thought you'd rule
the world forever,
Ebm
Absus4
Ebm
Long live the king, and don't spare the loser
Outro 1
C#
F#
Ebm
B
Ab
C#
C
C#
C#
C#dim
A
C#
B
F#
Ab
E
A
B
C#
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