Jack's Lament chords by Danny Elfman, The Nightmare Before Christmas
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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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There are few who deny
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At what I do, I am the best
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For my talents are renowned far and wide
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When it comes to surprises
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in the moonlit night
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I excel without ever even trying
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With the slightest little effort
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of my ghost-like charms
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I have seen grown men give out a shriek
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With a wave of my hand
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and a well-placed moan
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I have swept the very bravest off their feet
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Pre-chorus 1
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Yet, year after year, it's the same routine
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And I grow so weary of the sound of screams
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And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King
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Have grown so tired of the same old thing
Chorus 1
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Oh, some where deep
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inside of these bones
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An emptiness began to grow
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There's some thing out there
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far from my home
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A longing that I've never known
Verse 2
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I'm the master of fright
and a demon of light
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And I'll scare you right out of your pants
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To a guy in Kentucky, I'm Mister Unlucky
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And I'm known
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throughout England and France
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And since I am dead, I can take off my head
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To recite Shakespearean quotations
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No animal nor man can scream like I can
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With the fury of my re- ci- tations
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But who here would ever understand
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That the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin
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Would tire of his crown?
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If they only understood
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He would give it all up if he on ly could
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Oh, there's an empty place in my bones
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That calls out for some thing unknown
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The fame and praise,
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come year after year
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Does nothing for these empty tears
Jack's Lament
Danny Elfman, The Nightmare Before Christmas
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