Key: E major
Verse 1
E
We argue in the kitchen about
G#
whether to have children
G#m
C#m
About the world ending and
the scale of my ambition
B
A
G#
And how much is art really worth
F#m
The very thing you're best at
is the thing that hurts the most
E
But you need your rotten heart,
G#
your dazzling pain like diamond rings
C#m
You need to go to war
C#
C#m
C#
C#m
to find material to sing
A
I am no mother, I am no bride
G#
F#m
I am king
Verse 2
A
I need my golden crown of sorrow,
B
my bloody sword to swing
C#m
My empty halls to echo
G#
with grand self-mythology
A
B
I I am no mother, I am no bride
F#m
I am king
A
B
I am no mother, I am no bride
I am king
E
Verse 3
But a woman is a changeling,
G#m
always shifting shape
C#m
Just when you think you have it figured out,
something new begins to take
A
What strange claws are these
G#
G#m
scratching at my skin?
F#m
I never knew my killer would
be coming from within
E
G#
I am no mother, I am no bride
C#m
I am king
A
G#
I am no mother, I am no bride
I am king
F#m
B
Verse 4
A
I need my golden crown of sorrow,
B
my bloody sword to swing
E
I need my empty halls to echo
with grand self-mythology
G#
A
'Cause 'Cause I am no mother,
B
I am no bride
F#m
I am king
A
B
I am no mother, I am no bride
F#m
I am king
B
A
B
I am no mother, I am no bride
C#m
I am king
A
B
I am no mother, I am no bride
Interlude 1
I am king
E
Verse 5
E
G#
C#m
Oh
A
E
G#
F#m
Oh
E
G#
C#m
Oh
A
Oh
E
G#
F#m
Verse 6
B
E
G#
G#aug
G#
C#m
And
B
A
E
F#m
E
G#
C#m
A
G#
F#m
B
E
G#
I was never as good as I always thought I was
C#m
But I knew how to dress it up
A
G#
I was never satisfied, it nev er let me go
F#m
B
Just dragged me by my hair and back on
Outro 1
with the show
E
G#
C#m
A
G#
F#m
E
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