Chords with lyrics
Key: B minorBm
🎸 Intro:
B minorBm | G+G | B minorBm | F#F#
🎸 Refrain:
B minorBm
On the wings of the butterfly
G+G
From the rings of the falling sky
D MajorD F#F#
I linger in my dreams to stay the pain
B minorBm
On the wings of the butterfly
G+G
We will sing of a mother's lie
D MajorD F#F# B minorBm
And every sorry soul shall know my name
🎸 Instrumental:
B minorBm | G+G | B minorBm | F#F#
B minorBm | G+G | E minorEm FF | F#F#
B minorBm G+G | D MajorD F#F# | B minorBm G+G | D MajorD F#F#
G+G | A augmentedA | F#F# | F#F#
🎸 Verse:
B minorBm
Beneath the empty womb
G+G
The leaves come gently falling
B minorBm F#F#
My golden guise a failing remedy
B minorBm
Our tree is halved and hewn
G+G
Yet I can hear you calling
E minorEm FF F#F#
Your voice still echoes silently
G+G A augmentedA F#F#
Torn apart are we
🎸 Chorus:
B minorBm
I've waited so long for you
G+G
Carrying on for you
D MajorD F#F#
Onto the faintest hope I hold
B minorBm
I've waited so long for you
G+G
Carried this burden to
D MajorD F#F#
Fend off the fortunes long foretold
B minorBm G+G | D MajorD F#F#
To rot in purest gold
B minorBm G+G | D MajorD F#F#
To rot in purest gold
🎸 Instrumental:
B minorBm | G+G | B minorBm | F#F#
🎸 Refrain:
B minorBm
On the wings of the butterfly
G+G
In the deep where we dim and die
D MajorD F#F#
I shed my stricken skin, this crumbling bark
B minorBm
All the ruin that I have wrought
G+G
All the scars of the battles fought
D MajorD F#F# B minorBm
Through sightless eyes I gaze into the dark
🎸 Instrumental:
G+G | A augmentedA | F#F# | F#F#
🎸 Verse:
B minorBm
And in my still repose
G+G
Time passes oh so slowly
B minorBm F#F#
In shrouded shelter I remain confined
B minorBm
Until the flower grows
G+G
Blossom of blight will hold me
E minorEm FF F#F#
So I may bloom a final time
G+G A augmentedA F#F#
I will dance divine
🎸 Chorus:
B minorBm
I've waited so long for you
G+G
Carrying on for you
D MajorD F#F#
Onto the faintest hope I hold
B minorBm
I've waited so long for you
G+G
Carried this burden to
D MajorD F#F#
Fend off the fortunes long foretold
B minorBm G+G | D MajorD F#F#
To rot in purest gold
B minorBm G+G | D MajorD F#F#
To rot in purest gold
🎸 Bridge:
G+G A augmentedA
And I'm still longing
B minorBm F#F#
For the comfort that you brought
G+G A augmentedA F#F#
No sign or song of what I've sought
B minorBm | Bb majorBb | B minorBm | G+G
I will dance divine
B minorBm
Down in these roots I slumber
Bb majorBb
My form it falls asunder
B minorBm
Feed me these dregs to conquer
G+G B minorBm
So I may taste my honour lost
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm | B minorBm | B minorBm
I will dance divine
G+G A augmentedA B minorBm A augmentedA | G+G F#F# | B minorBm A augmentedA | G+G F#F#
I will dance divine
B minorBm | A augmentedA | G+G | F#F#
B minorBm | G+G | D MajorD | F#F#
B minorBm | G+G | D MajorD | F#F#
🎸 Refrain:
B minorBm
On the wings of the butterfly
G+G
From the rings of the falling sky
D MajorD F#F#
I linger in my dreams to stay the pain
B minorBm
On the wings of the butterfly
G+G
We will sing of a mother's lie
D MajorD F#F# B minorBm
And every sorry soul shall know my name
G+G A augmentedA F#F#
They will know my name
🎸 Chorus:
B minorBm
I've waited so long for you
G+G
Carrying on for you
D MajorD F#F#
Onto the faintest hope I hold
B minorBm
I've waited so long for you
G+G
Carried this burden to
D MajorD F#F#
Fend off the fortunes long foretold
G+G | A augmentedA
To rot in purest gold
B minorBm
To rot in purest gold
🎸 Outro:
B minorBm Bb majorBb B minorBm
In darkness I will dance divine