Tonart: C# minor
Verse 1
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Am
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C
Citadel re verberates to a
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C
G
thousand voices, now
Dumb:
E
What have we chosen to be?
A
B
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G
Now, all history is reduced
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Nothing can ever be the same:
Em
Now the Immortals are here.
Am
At the time it seemed a reas
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Am
onable course
G
To harness all the force
F
Of life without the threat of death,
E
But soon we found that boredom
and inertia
Am
Are not negative, but all the law we know,
G
And dead are will and words like survival.
F
Verse 2
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Am
B
F
Am
G
Arrival at im munity from all age,
Our essence is distilled
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Am
E
F
G
And all fa miliar taste is now drained,
C
G
And though purity is maintained
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It leaves us sterile,
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Am
Living through the millions of years,
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F
A laugh as close as any tear;
Living, if you claim that all
E
That entails is breathing,
eating, defecating,
Screwing, drinking,
Spewing, sleeping,
G
sinking ever down and down
F
And ultimately passing away time
Which no longer has any meaning.
G
Am
G
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Am
the threat of death and all you're
G
Left with is a round of make- believe.
Am
G
Marshal every sullen breath
G
Ultimately bored by endless ec stasy
Am
It's still the ring by which you hope to be
Am
To marry the girl who will
give you forever-
It's crazy, and plainly
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F
Dm
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F
G
That simply is not
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G
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enough.
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A
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Interlude 2
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Am
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Verse 4
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Am
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What is the dullest and
G
C
Such that my eyes never close
There?
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What abject despair demands an end
E
Am
B
F
To all things of in finity?
G
Cost?
What have we bargained,
and what have we
F
Lost?
What have we relinquished,
never even knowing it
E
Em
Was there?
Verse 5
Am
What thoughts now of
holding fast the line,
G
Defying death and time?
F
Everything we had is gone,
E
Everything we laboured for
and favoured more
Am
Than earthly things reveals the hollow ring
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F
Am
Of false hope and false deliverance.
Verse 6
Am
But now the nuptial bed is made,
G
The dowry has been paid:
haggard features of eternity
the sheets
To couple with her withered
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F
body - my wife.
Hers forever,
Hers forever,
Hers forever
B
C
Am
In still life.
Outro 1
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