Tonart: D# minor
Verse 1
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A "noxious" butcher,
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a name they will rue
When their carcasses yield
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postmortem truths
E#
Although Burke and Hare,
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have their usefulness proved
E#
From their sordid acts,
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I stand far removed
Am
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But now from the grave's final jape
E#
I shan't emerge wholly unscathed
Verse 2
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E#
From this calumny there's no
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Am
escape
A lifetime of work that may
all go to waste
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Am
A gentleman born, now stained by disgrace
E#
Once a surgeon, now a ghoul
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Death and life forever
Verse 3
And within their vulgar minds
Am
C
The penny dreadful they seek they will find,
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Am
they'll have their death revenge I plied my trade bound to the grave
Now they've labeled me depraved
Am
C
My name and my work bear their stain,
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this is their death revenge
Verse 4
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Burke alone stands judged
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for both our transgressions
E#
The hangman awaits him, then
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postmortem dissection
E#
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Yet all that peers back from
the looking glass
E#
Are the ghosts of my past,
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Am
screaming to their last
Verse 5
E#
And now my grave, fi nal jape
Am
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Is writ large on Burke's
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cadaverous face
Am
E#
From the noose he shall have no escape
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Am
Why let both
of our lives go to waste?
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E#
In my confession the
blame lay misplaced
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Once a man, soon a corpse in
Verse 6
E#
Forfeit his life to extend mine
Am
Thus ends our partnership
in crime
Lady justice though said to be blind,
still takes her death revenge
Verse 7
C
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I earned my living from the
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Am
grave
And committed acts depraved
C
Life ends unsaved and betrayed,
the price paid
Interlude 1
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Cm
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Verse 8
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Death and life forever intertwined
Am
And within the morbid mind
C
There's only darkness left to find,
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the final death revenge
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Am
We lived our lives within the grave
And in turn became depraved
C
And now naught remains to be saved,
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Am
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the final
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death
Outro 1
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