Ghost of Perdition chords by
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Key: D minor
Verse 1
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Ghost of Mother
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Lingering death
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Ghost on
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Mother's bed
Black strands on the pillow
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Contour of her health
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Twisted face upon
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the head
Verse 2
Ghost of perdition
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Stuck in her chest
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A warning no one
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read
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Tragic friendship
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Called inside the fog
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Pouring venom
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brew deceiving
Interlude 1
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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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before you die young"
Verse 4
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Holding her
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down
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Channeling darkness
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Hemlock for the
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Gods
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Fading resistance
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Draining the weakness
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Penetrating inner light
Verse 5
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Road into the dark unaware
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Winding ever
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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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Waits to pull us under
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Rose up to it's call
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In his arms she'd fall
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Mother light received
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And a faithful servant's free
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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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And like marked pages in a diary
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Everything seemed clean
that is unstained
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The incoherent talk
of ordinary days
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Why would we really need to live?
Decide what is clear and
what's within a haze
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What you should take and what to give
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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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whores
Verse 9
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To see a beloved son
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In despair of what's to come
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Interlude 4
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Verse 10
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If one cut the source of the flow
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And everything would
change
Would conviction fall
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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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Defying the forgotten morals
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Where the victim is the prey
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