Unknown Tongue chords by Blue Öyster Cult

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Verse 1
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There was no light,
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shining through the window
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As Margaret lie in bed
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She was wearing her
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cotton pajamas
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A crucifix above her head

Verse 2

She awoke from a dream

Her eyes were open

Her lips were moving in the dark

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Verse 3

Speak to me in many voices

Make them all sound like one

Let me see your sacred mysteries

Reveal to me the Unknown

Tongue

Verse 4
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She put her hands upon her breasts
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And they were small and hard and young
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And everywhere she touched,
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she felt the fire
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Waiting for the answer that
must surely come
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Verse 5

Is this the way to love?

Or is this just the way to die?

Verse 6

Speak to me in many voices

Make them all sound like one

Let me see your sacred mysteries

Reveal to me the Unknown Tongue

Verse 7
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And
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then she took her father's razor
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And watched it cut into her palm
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She put her hand up to her mouth
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To taste the blood so holy and warm

Verse 8
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She got up in  the morning
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Put on her dress,
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and patent leather shoes
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Ate her cereal, and kissed her mother
And caught the bus, and went to school
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Verse 9
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Speak to me in many voices
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Make them all sound like one
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Let me see your sacred mysteries
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Reveal to me the Unknown
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Tongue
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