Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)
For those who, like me, can't really play tablature, here's some nice easy chords you
follow - complete with finger positions. Not the difficult chords of the actual version
sound kinda gross if not picked out as was meant to be done.
Chords: (eBGDAE)
A minorAm - 012200
FF - 11233x
Cadd9Cadd9 - 330230
G+G - 330023
C majorC - 010233 (full C majorC)
C9C9 - 010230 (the common C majorC)
D7sus4D7sus4 - 3120xx
D7D7 - 1210xx
DmDm - 1320xx
Capo at 2.
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door
Cadd9Cadd9 G+G Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
He said, "I am not fighting for you anymore"
A minorAm A minorAm FF
And the queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before
C majorC G+G Cadd9Cadd9
And slowly she let him inside
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill
Cadd9Cadd9 G+G Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
But I am leaving tomorrow, and you can do what you will
C majorC G+G Cadd9Cadd9
Only first I am asking you why"
FF FF C9C9 C9C9
Down the long narrow hall he was led
D7sus4D7sus4 D7sus4D7sus4 D7D7 DmDm
Into her room with her tapestries red
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
And she never once took the crown from her head
C majorC G+G Cadd9Cadd9
She asked him there to sit down
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
He said, "I see you now and you are so very young
Cadd9Cadd9 G+G Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
And I've got this intuition says it's all for your fun
C majorC G+G Cadd9Cadd9
And now will you tell me why?"
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
Well the young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye
Cadd9Cadd9 G+G Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
She said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try"
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry
C majorC G+G Cadd9Cadd9
But she closed herself up like a fan
FF FF C9C9 C9C9
And she said, "I have swallowed a secret burning thread
D7sus4D7sus4 D7sus4D7sus4 D7D7 DmDm
It cuts me inside and often I've bled"
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
And he laid his hand then on the top of her head
C majorC G+G Cadd9Cadd9
And he bowed her down to the ground
FF FF C9C9 C9C9 D7sus4D7sus4
D7D7 DmDm
OooooooooooooH
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
Cadd9Cadd9
OooooooooooooooH
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
"Tell me how hungry are you, how weak you must feel
Cadd9Cadd9 G+G Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
As you are living here alone and you are never revealed
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
But I won't march again on your battlefield"
C majorC G+G Cadd9Cadd9
And he took her to the window to see
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
And the sun it was gold, though the sky it was grey
Cadd9Cadd9 G+G Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
And she wanted more than she ever could say
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
But she knew how it frightened her and she turned away
C majorC G+G Cadd9Cadd9
And would not look at his face again
FF FF C9C9 C9C9
He said, "I want to live as an honest man
D7sus4D7sus4 D7sus4D7sus4 D7D7 DmDm
To get all I deserve and to give all I can
A minorAm An FF FF
And to love a young woman whom I don't understand
C majorC G+G Cadd9Cadd9
Your highness, your ways are very strange"
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break
Cadd9Cadd9 G+G Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
And she stood there ashamed of the way her heart ached
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
And she took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait
C majorC G+G Cadd9Cadd9
She would only be a moment inside
(play chords sharply)
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF
Out in the distance her order was heard
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
And the soldier was killed still waiting for her word
A minorAm A minorAm FF
FF
And while the queen went on strangling in the solitude she preferred
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
The battle continued on
FF FF C9C9 C9C9 D7sus4D7sus4
D7D7 DmDm
Ooooooooooooooooh
A minorAm A minorAm FF FF Cadd9Cadd9 G+G
Cadd9Cadd9
Oooooooooooooooooh
fade on Cadd9Cadd9
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