The Raven Child chords by Avantasia

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Am

Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
Am   G      F        Gsus2
Wild groves, sacred grounds fade to vastness
Am   G        Em       F
Mother Moon, cast your spell on these fields
Am    G/B      C    F      Am
Let the boughs paint ghostly shades on the trail
F   G
To a different world

Am     G      F    Gsus2
Where the castle looks out to a valley
Am     G      Em      F
Where I'm given all the love that I crave
Am   G/B     C    F   Am
Not afraid of the rising sun laying bare
F  G
my brittle soul

Pre-Chorus 1:
Dm      Em
Cold is the wind
Am       G
Bringing forth clarity
Dm      Em
Time rushing on
   Am
And nothing will remain
Dm     Em  F      G
There's no glory on the last journey
Am G/B C F Am G
Hooooooo, hooooome
Am G  C F Am G
Hooooooo, hooooome
Am G/B C F Am G
Hooooooo, hooooome
Am G  C F Am G
Hooooooo, hooooome

Interlude 1:
Gm F Gm F
Gm F Gm Eb F
Gm F Gm Eb F
Gm F Gm Eb Dm

Verse 2:
Gm    F       Gm     F
Looking down from this pure cup of heaven
Gm    F    Gm     F
Onto an ocean of white that drowns
     Eb     Dm
All the noise and decree
            Gm F Gm F
And the craze in empty eyes

Gm       F   Gm    F
Wide-eyed I'm lost in my imagination
Gm      F        Gm
A dream of love, I've got to suffocate
F        Eb
While I keep on waiting
    Dm            Gm F
For the hour I'll be called to realize
Gm     F      Gm F Gm
And see it all before my eyes

Pre-Chorus 2:
Eb               Gm
The sky is crawling down the mound
             D5 Eb5 D5 Eb5 D5
Into the deadwood on the ground, They say
Eb           Dm
Spectres flare and spit and rise
         Cm
To mingle with the skies
          F
And take all that's never meant to be

Chorus:
 Am        G/B      C       G
A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way
       Dm
Gonna run and never get away
F   Am         Em   F
Is it love that glows in fiery alignment?
Dm   G      Em    F
Starry-eyed, maybe living a lie? A lonely heart in an endless line

Interlude 2:
Gm    F  Gm F
Oh raven child
Gm   F   Gm Eb Dm
Raven child

Verse 2:
  Gm       F/G
Bewildering and strange
        Gm        F/G
The scent of spring and cherry blossoms
Gm       F/G
Sweet scent of rain
     Gm      F/G       Eb
They're calling you astounding how it is
            Dm
Not the same it used to be
              Gm      F/G    Gm F/G
When you're compelled behind The crenel on your own

  Gm        F/G
The tolling of the bell
     Gm      F/G
Is there anyone to tell me
Gm        F/G
What they wanna say?
Gm    F/G  Eb
Voices go on and on and on to me
      Dm
But their tongues won't permeate
      Gm F/G Gm
Throughout my soul

Pre-Chorus 3:
Eb            Gm
In your altered state of mind
         D5 Eb5 D5 Eb5 D5
In vain you're chasing light
Eb         Dm
Your master in his frown
        Cm
Denial of the crown of creation
F
You're made to think you are

Chorus:
 Am        G/B      C       G
A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way
       Dm
Gonna run and never get away
F   Am         Em   F
Is it love that glows in fiery alignment?

 Am        G/B      C       G
A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way
       Dm
Gonna run and never get away
F   Am         Em   F
Is it love that glows in fiery alignment?
Dm   G      Em    F
Starry-eyed, maybe living a lie? A lonely heart in an endless line

Solo:
Bm F#m G Em F#m
Bm F#m G D
Bm F#m G Em F#m
Bm F#m G A D

Verse 3:
Bm   A      G       A
Light breeze in the crowns of the willows
Bm   A       F#m       G
Green fields as if the day was on the wane
Em  D      A     Bm
Grow faint and attain to perfection
Em   D       C
What a backdrop for a diamond

Bm     A     G       A
And so we sway in the wind like the willow
Bm       A     F#m      G
Meant to give way to the order of the storm
Em       D      A      Bm
Won't leave a mould in the marsh of the ages
Em    D      C
A tired chevalier of fortune

Bm     A      G       A
Blue and serene once a sky swanned on magic
Bm   A      F#m     G
The unborn in the stream of destiny
Em   D    A       Bm
Time flows to become a mound of nothing
Em      D     C
For a broken soldier of fortune

Bridge:
Em
On my
Em
Comin' down, goin' all the way now, You won't get away You know
Em
Finally the way you're shown You're goin' now Comin' down (x8)
C D

     Em
Into the light
            D
In the light there's a crack torn open
C      D
From underneath the day
Em          D
In the light, but a crack, is it growing?
C           D
Feel the dark rolling in, your way

Em        D
Feel the light look away it's gonna blind you
C      D
Ignite your spirits fly
Am
See a light to uncloak their master
Bm       D
To arouse the beaten mind

Am           G
In the light there's a crack torn open
F     G
From underneath the day (You dream and fly)
Am          G
In the light, but a crack, is it growing?
F           G
Feel the dark rolling in your way (Hey raven child)

Am        G
Feel the light look away it's gonna blind you
F      G
Ignite your spirits fly
Dm
Uncloak the raven master
E
To arouse the beaten mind

Interlude 3:
Am G
Am C D
Am G
Am C D
E
Yeah

Outro:
  Am        F
You tuck away yourself inside
  C         G
You ride away on the inmost light
   Am  F      C
Your soul glowing opal-blue
 Am       G
A million voices fade away
 Am               F
I never really got what they're trying to say
    Am  F     C/E   G
For my words there's no getting through

    Am           F
Oh, you sail to the night's plutonian shore
   C             G        Am
You drift to sleep, you can't take no more of this
   F       C
And like a raven child
   Am         G
You spread your paltry wings and throw
   C           F         Am
Yourself into the wind to escape from all below
     F    C/E   G
That despised the raven child

Am           F
Am I awake or is it an evil dream
  C       G
Or maybe the ugly in between
   Am   F      C
Like me, a weak hermaphrodite
Am     G         C
A broken soul in unimpaired parts
       F           Am
In quest for light but it was the dark
    F    C/E    G
That embraced the raven child

Am        F
A cloak of invisibility
  C           G
To curtain the face of deformity
Am F       C
No, darkness let me in
  Am         G
Off to the night's plutonian shores
   C           F        Am
You dream and hope you won't wake no more to this
F   C/E  G
Flying raven child (Oh, fiery eyes)

C  F C/E G
Oh, fiery eyes (Flying raven child)
Am G            Am
Oh, to escape from all below
C      Dm  Am
Spread your wings and go
G          Am C5 B5 G5 Am
Like a raven child