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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #

-first letter-A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #

	Fm
Sixteen	years,

	Ab	Eb	Fm
Sixteen	banners u	nited over the	fields

	Db	Eb
While the	good shepherd	grieves

	Fm	Ab	Eb
Desperate	men, despe	rate women d	ivided,

	Fm	Db	Eb	Ab
Spreading their	wings 'neath the	fal	ling	leaves.

	Fm
Fortune	calls.

	Ab	Eb	Fm
I steppe	d forth from the	shadows, to the market	place,

	Db	Eb	Fm
Merchants and	thieves, hungry for	power, my last deal gone	down.

	Ab	Eb	Fm
She's smelling	sweet like the	meadows where she was	born,

	Db	Eb	Ab
On midsummer's	eve,	near the t	ower.

(Interlude)

	Fm
The cold-blooded	moon.

	Ab	Eb
The captain	waits above the cele	bration

	Fm	Db	Eb
Sending his	thoughts to a	beloved	maid

	Fm	Ab	Eb
Whose ebony	face is beyond	communi	cation.

	Fm	Db	Eb	Ab
The captain is	down but still believing that his	love will	be repai	d.

	Fm
They shaved her	head.

	Ab	Eb
She was torn between	Jupiter and Apol	lo.

	Fm	Db	Eb
A messenger	arrived with a	black nightin	gale.

	Fm	Ab	Eb
I seen her on the	stairs and I	couldn't help but	follow,

	Fm	Db	Eb	Ab
Follow her	down past the fountain where they	lif	ted her	veil.

(Interlude)

Fm

I stumbled to my feet.

	Ab	Eb
I rode past	destruction in the	ditches

	Fm	Db	Eb
With the	stitches still mending 'neath a	heart-shaped tat	too.

	Fm	Ab	Eb
Renegade	priests and	treacherous young wit	ches

	Fm	Db	Eb	Ab
Were	handing out the flowers that I'd	giv	en to	you.

	Fm
The palace of	mirrors

	Ab	Eb
Where dog	soldiers are re	flected,

	Fm	Db	Eb
The endless	road and the	wailing of	chimes,

	Fm	Ab	Eb
The empty	rooms where her	memory is pro	tected,

	Fm	Db	Eb	Ab
Where the	angels' voices whisper to the	souls of	previous ti	mes.

(Interlude)

	Fm
She wakes him	up

	Ab	Eb
Forty-eight hours	later, the sun is	breaking

	Fm	Db	Eb
Near broken	chains, mountain la	urel and rolling	rocks.

	Fm	Ab	Eb
She's begging to	know what meas	ures he now will be	taking

	Fm	Db	Eb	Ab
He's pulling her	down and she's clutching on to hi	s long	golden l	ocks.

	Fm
Gentlemen, he	said,

	Ab	Eb	Fm
I don't	need your organi	zation, I've shined your	shoes,

	Db	Eb
I've moved your	mountains and marked your	cards

	Fm	Ab	Eb
But Eden is bur	ning, either get brav	e for elimi	nation

	Fm	Db	Eb	Ab
Or else your h	earts must have the courage for the	changing	of the g	uards.

(Interlude)

	Fm
Peace will	come

	Ab	Eb	Fm
With tran	quility and	splendor on the wheels of	fire

	Db	Eb	Fm
But will	offer no re	ward when her false idols	fall

	Ab	Eb	Fm
And	cruel death sur	renders with its	pale ghost retreating

	Db	Eb	Ab
Between the	King and the	Queen of Swo	rds.

	Fm	Ab	Eb
	Fm...

The "Interlude" (that the sax plays) is:

Ab

Eb

Db

Ab

E -6-8-9-8-8~----6-6~----4-4~--(repeat 3 times)---||-6p4-4---4~--||
B ------------------------------------------------||-------6-----||
G ------------------------------------------------||-------------||
D ------------------------------------------------||-------------||
A ------------------------------------------------||-------------||
E ------------------------------------------------||-------------||

One word of note: It is much easier to play this song with a capo on the

first fret (i.e. play Em G D Em C D... while the 1st fret is fretted). This

makes it more easier and does not make the guitar sound too choppy.

Also:

(DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THOSE LYRICS)

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