Chords with lyrics
Tuning: G C E A (G C E A) This is just what I heard in the song! Not sure about all of it though, so let me know if you find any better chords! The chords in parentheses are more optional flourishes than they are strictly necessary. G5: 0235 D5: 2255 or 0055 C5: 0033 Intro: G5 D5 C5 D C5 D
Verse 1: C5 (C) Wars are raising for her C5 (Dsus2) D Crusades to adore her C5 D The light of your afterword C5 Am Are you losing her true nature Am D When you loosen nomenclature C5 D When you gift another moniker? C5 (C) What’s true is like a sickle C5 (Dsus2) D It’ll cut you to the middle C5 D That your rose is without a thorn C5 Am But no, my mouth don’t taste of metal Am D From the pot here to the kettle C5 C5 I think we got a lot we gotta learn Chorus: C5 C F And even though by any other name F C (C5) D Her scent would linger sweetly, all the same F C Call her briar long enough D C And you’ll tangle up the true and the fable
C D C G D Verse 2: C5 Your dowry, it ain’t fooling C5 D The pyrite is showing through C5 D It won’t buy you that empty tomb C5 Am And no alchemic incantation Am D For a counterfeit salvation C5 D Can appease your leviathan groom C5 (C) No, love’ll get you slaughtered C5 D Like a ram at the altar C5 D What is safe ain’t the same as what is good C5 Am So lay compress to the aching Am D Of your body made for breaking C5 C5 Oh we’ve got a lot of breaking left to do Chorus: C5 C F Cause even under any other creed F C (C5) D The crucifix and the hangman – they both agree F C Change comes so cheaply D C For those of us already at the table C D C G D
