Key: Db major
Verse 1
some of them as heavy as lead,
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Fdim
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F
as black as coal,
Clues faintly stencilled: the message,
though leeched, is unbled,
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F
as old,
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F
Dm
And always that laugh
that comes as though it's from pain:
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Gm
still it hammers round my brain.
A
Verse 2
laughter impossibly wise,
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F
that same laughter that comes
every time I flash on that look
which whispers of a black zone
which'll mock all my cre
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C
dos as lies,
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F
and time will smash
only by the magic of your touch
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Gm
A
No, Nothing matters very much!
Verse 3
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Em
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Bb
So the siren song runs through the ages,
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Bb
Asus4
and it courses through my veins
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F
and with all the sweet kisses
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F
of addiction
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Eb
it's calling me to break my bonds again.
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
some splinters escape on my tongue,
some of them scar comprehen
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sion...
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Fdim
F
beneath the scab they burn,
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C
but the wound becomes numbs.
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C
rejoicing in the search and the prayer,
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F
C
the strange, the freak, the impossible dare.
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till I embrace it on my knees....
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Gm
A
what becomes of
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me?
What becomes, oh,
Asus4
A
what becomes of me?
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