Key: D minor
Verse 1
E
Am
Dm
Am
Lingering death
E
G
Em
F#m
F#
Ghost on
F
Em
Dm
G
Am
Mother's bed
Black strands on the pillow
G#
Am
Dm
Am
Contour of her health
E
G
Am
F#m
F#
F
Twisted face upon
Em
Am
Dm
Am
the head
Verse 2
Ghost of perdition
G#
Am
Dm
Am
Stuck in her chest
Em
Am
F#
F
A warning no one
Em
Dm
G
Am
read
E
Am
Dm
Called inside the fog
Am
G
Am
F#
F
Pouring venom
Em
Dm
Am
brew deceiving
Interlude 1
Em
Am
C
Bm
Bb
Bbm
Am
Em
C
Cm
C
Bm
Bb
Am
Verse 3
Devil
cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the one
Blew hope into the room and said:
"You have to live
Em
Am
before you die young"
Verse 4
Cm
C
Bm
Bbm
Am
Bbm
Am
Em
Am
Cm
C
Bm
Em
Am
Holding her
G#
E
Am
down
Dm
Am
Channeling darkness
E
G
Am
F#m
F#
F
Am
Hemlock for the
Em
Dm
G
Am
Gods
E
Am
Fading resistance
Dm
Am
Draining the weakness
E
G
F#m
F#
F
Em
Penetrating inner light
Verse 5
Dm
Am
C#m
Road into the dark unaware
Am
F#
Am
F
Fm
F#
Winding ever
F#m
G
Am
higher
Interlude 2
F#
Am
F#
Am
F#
Am
Verse 6
Darkness by her side
Em
Dm
Am
C
Spoke and passed her by
Em
Dm
C
Waits to pull us under
Dm
Am
C
In his arms she'd fall
Dm
Am
And a faithful servant's free
Interlude 3
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C#m
Am
G
Em
Eb
Em
C#m
Am
G
Em
Eb
Em
C#m
C#
C#m
G
Em
Eb
Em
Am
G
Em
Eb
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C#m
G
Em
Eb
Em
Am
G
Em
Eb
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E
Em
E
Em
Verse 7
and soiled her name
Em
Am
And like marked pages in a diary
Eb
Em
Am
Everything seemed clean
that is unstained
Eb
Em
Am
The incoherent talk
of ordinary days
Em
Am
Why would we really need to live?
Decide what is clear and
what's within a haze
Em
Am
What you should take and what to give
Em
Am
Verse 8
F#
Am
Am
Am
Am
Ghost of perdition
F#
Am
F#
A saint's premonition's unclear
Am
F#
Am
Keeper of holy
Dm
C#m
Am
Dm
C#m
Am
F#
Am
Dm
C#m
Am
whores
Verse 9
G#sus4
C#m
In despair of what's to come
Am
Interlude 4
Dm
C#m
Am
Dm
G#m
C#m
Am
F#
Am
Dm
C#m
G#m
C#m
Am
F#
Am
Dm
Am
Am
Verse 10
F#
Em
G
Em
Am
And everything would
change
Would conviction fall
F
Em
G
Am
In the shadow of the righteous
The phantasm of your mind
Might be calling you to go
Bm
Em
G
Am
Defying the forgotten morals
G
Am
Where the victim is the prey
Am
G#m
E
Em
D
Dm
Bm
Am
F#
Am
D
Dm
Am
E
D
Dm
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F#
Am
Dm
Am
E
D
Dm
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Dm
Dsus4
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G
C
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G
Am
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