Tryst With Mephistopheles chords by
Owen Pallett

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Key: G major

Intro 1

Verse 1

I stumbled on the summit's path

Clumsy, clumsy

No paragon am I

I can't even keep my shoes

Interlude 1

tied

Gsus4

Verse 2
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I've been in love with Owen ever since
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I heard the strains of Psalm
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Standing between the choirs
As they sang, "Laudate Dominum,

Interlude 2

Laudate Dominum"

Verse 3
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Damn, I wrote it down
but I left it in the pocket of
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my other jeans
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Scrawled across the foolscap
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I don't know what your devotion means
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I don't know what your devotion means

Verse 4
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And up, upon the summit I can see
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The one I worshipped as a boy
The Creator, The Great White Noise
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The Great White Noise
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Interlude 3

Gsus4

Verse 5

Charged and charging up the ridge

Gsus4

The chests are empty, the coffers too

They float in the flood, and so will you,

Interlude 4

I swear, so will you

Verse 6
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"Your light is  spent! Your
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light is spent!" I cried
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As  I drove the iron spike into
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Owen's eyes
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The sun sped cross the plains like
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that cinematic moment where
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Humanity and nature collide
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When you think,
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"Everything's gonna be  all right"
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Just before the hero gets a bullet
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in his side

Interlude 5

Verse 7
Whizzing off the clifftop
Listening for the spatter,
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thirty floors below
Down come the vultures
I will not be your fuel anymore

Verse 8
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Now the author has been si lenced,
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how will they ever decipher me?
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I hope they hear these
words and are convinced
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You never even knew me

Verse 9

I draw a bruise on your

brawny shoulder

Scratch my fingers

over your tattoos

Outro 1
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