If Eternity Should Fail chords by Iron Maiden

Key: Dm

🤘 Intro:
N.C.
Here is the soul of a man
N.C.
Here in this place for the taking
N.C.
Clothed in white, stand in the light
N.C.
Here is the soul of a man



N.C.
Time to speak with the shaman again
N.C.
Conjure the jester again
N.C.
Black dog in the ruins is howling my name
N.C.
So here is the soul of a man

🤘 Interlude:

Dm C x4

🤘 Verse 1:
Dm                          C
   When the world was virgin  before the coming of men
Dm                       Bb       C
   Just a solar witness
the beginning of the end
Dm                       C
   From a world of magma    to a cold rock face
Dm                       Bb      C     Am G Dm Am
   The ascent of madness   and a human raaaaaaace

Dm                         C
   We are strange believers    all of us
Dm                          Bb    C
   There are stranger truths    immortal lust
Dm                     C
   We rise from slumber    he calls our name
Dm                    Bb       C    Am G Dm Am
   Recalls our number    abide with paaaaaaain

🤘 Interlude:

Bb Am x2

🤘 Chorus:
Dm                     C
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
    Bb             Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                      C
Waiting in line for the ending of time
    Bb      Gm       Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                     C
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
    Bb             Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                      C
Waiting in line for the ending of time
    Bb      Gm       Dm
If eternity should fail


🤘 Verse 2:
Dm                  C
   To god’s illusion    which I recall
Dm                  Bb    C
    Was our delusion    before the fall
Dm                 C
    The angels come    and the angels go
Dm                       Bb     C    Am G Dm Am
    But the lord of light    shining beloooooooow

Dm                   C
    Eternal blackness     beyond the stars
Dm                    Bb        C
   We think our wisdom     will get that far
Dm                        C
    At the master’s table
the table’s bare
Dm                   Bb           C    Am   G Dm A
   No land of plenty
devastation, despaaaaair


🤘 Chorus:
Dm                     C
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
    Bb             Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                      C
Waiting in line for the ending of time
    Bb      Gm       Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                     C
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
    Bb             Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                      C
Waiting in line for the ending of time
    Bb      Gm       Dm
If eternity should fail


Instrumental Break:

Em x8

F F Em Em

Em x4

F F Em Em

Dm Dm Dm G x2

Am x4


🤘 Chorus:

Dm                     C
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
    Bb             Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                      C
Waiting in line for the ending of time
    Bb      Gm       Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                     C
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
    Bb             Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                      C
Waiting in line for the ending of time
    Bb      Gm       Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                     C
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
    Bb             Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                      C
Waiting in line for the ending of time
    Bb      Gm       Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                     C
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
    Bb             Dm
If eternity should fail
Dm                      C
Waiting in line for the ending of time
    Bb      Gm       Dm
If eternity should fail


🤘 Outro:

Dm
Good day, my name is Necropolis
Dm
I am formed of the dead
Dm
I am the harvester of the soul meat
Dm
And I suck the lives from around my bed
Dm
My own two sons I gave them breath
Dm
And I filled their living corpses with my bile
Dm
What humanity I knew I have long forgotten
Dm
For me eternity is nothing but a short while
Dm