Key: Ab major•
Verse 1
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I used to rule the world
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Seas would rise when I gave the word
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Now in the morning I sleep alone
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Sweep the streets I used
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to own
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I used to roll the dice,
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feel the fear in my enemy's eye s
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I would listen as the crowd would sing,
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One minute I held the key,
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next the walls were closed on me
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I discovered that my castle's standing
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Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
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I hear Jerusalem bells a -ringing
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Or old man Calvary choirs a -singing
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Be my mirror, my sword and my shield
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My missionaries in a foreign field
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For some reason I can 't explain
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Once you'd gone there was never,
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never an honest word
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But that was when I ruled the world
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It was a wicked and a wild wind
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Blew down the doors to let me in
The shadowed windows and
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the sound of drums
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I'd become
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Revolutionaries wait for my head
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Just a puppet on a lonely string
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Oh, who would ever want to begin?
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I hear Jerusalem bells a -ringin'
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Be my mirror, my sword and my shield
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My missionaries in a foreign field
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For some reason I can't explain
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I know St. Peter won't call my name
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never an honest word,
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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I want to be you
Outro 1
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ChordsDb Eb Ab Fm
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