Ghost of Perdition chords by
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Key: D minor
Verse 1
Am
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Ghost of Mother
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Dm
Dm

Am
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Lingering death
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G

Em
Em

F#m
F#m

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Ghost on
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F

Em
Em

Dm
Dm

G
G

Am
Am

Mother's bed
Black strands on the pillow
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G#

Am
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Dm
Dm

Am
Am

Contour of her health
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E

G
G

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Am

F#m
F#m

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F#

F
F

Twisted face upon
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Am

Dm
Dm

Am
Am

the head
Verse 2
Ghost of perdition
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G#

Am
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Dm
Dm

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Stuck in her chest
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Am
Am

F#
F#

F
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A warning no one
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Dm

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read
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Tragic friendship
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Dm
Dm

Called inside the fog
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Pouring venom
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brew deceiving
Interlude 1
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Bm
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Cm
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Bb

Am
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Verse 3
Devil
cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the one
Blew hope into the room and said:
"You have to live
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Am

before you die young"
Verse 4
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Bbm

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Em
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Cm
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Bm
Bm

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Holding her
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G#

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E

Am
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down
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Dm

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Channeling darkness
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F#m
F#m

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Hemlock for the
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Dm
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Gods
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Fading resistance
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Draining the weakness
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F#m
F#m

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Em
Em

Penetrating inner light
Verse 5
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Dm

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Am

C#m
C#m

Road into the dark unaware
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F#
F#

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F

Fm
Fm

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Winding ever
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F#m

G
G

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higher
Interlude 2
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Verse 6
Darkness by her side
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Spoke and passed her by
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Dedicated hunter
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Dm
Dm

C
C

Waits to pull us under
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Rose up to it's call
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Dm

Am
Am

C
C

In his arms she'd fall
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Mother light received
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Dm

Am
Am

And a faithful servant's free
Interlude 3
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C#m
C#m

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Eb
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Eb
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Verse 7
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In time the
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hissing of her sanity
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Faded out her voice
and soiled her name
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Am
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And like marked pages in a diary
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Eb

Em
Em

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Am

Everything seemed clean
that is unstained
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Eb

Em
Em

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The incoherent talk
of ordinary days
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Em

Am
Am

Why would we really need to live?
Decide what is clear and
what's within a haze
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Em

Am
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What you should take and what to give
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Em

Am
Am

Verse 8
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Ghost of perdition
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A saint's premonition's unclear
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Keeper of holy hoards
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Keeper of holy
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C#m

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C#m
C#m

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Dm
Dm

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C#m

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whores
Verse 9
Dm
Dm

To see a beloved son
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C#m
C#m

In despair of what's to come
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Interlude 4
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C#m

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G#m
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Verse 10
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If one cut the source of the flow
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G
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And everything would
change
Would conviction fall
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Em
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G

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In the shadow of the righteous
The phantasm of your mind
Might be calling you to go
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Bm

Em
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Defying the forgotten morals
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Where the victim is the prey
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Dsus4
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C
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Dm
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