Involuntary Doppelgänger Chords by Archspire

[Intro]

[Verse]
B Bm D E                                 
■ ■  ■ Dead lives rive from my human hide
Db7                    Bm                                     
When the cult had come for me I could have got away but didn't
Bm                                            
I couldn't be the one to cause this any longer
       B7                                   
Had it been a day or a year inside this skin
            Bm                                                    
I could not tell the faces I had captured over centuries took hold
B7                                                 Bm                    B7        
I became a kind of hunter eating pelts of pleading meat to acquire their appearance
                                                               Bm                
Taking their form with will alone alive and crawling out of me to catch it's prey
                               B7                    
Shed you foreign poison peltry take the rind you want
                    Bm                                              
Seen to be a wicked omen despite attempts to hide my live birth mark
                                                 Bm                 
Crown of a dark demon tar I'd taken back with me from the other side
                             Bm                              
There is no god for if there was then how'd this evil take me
                                                       B7  
It seeped and crawled it's way along my face as mother wept
B7                                                              
Stealing identities from every skin it sees growing with urgency
B Bbm Ebm B Eb7 Ebm Ebm
■ ■   ■   ■ ■   ■   ■  
Ebm                                                
When he tried to cut it off many a time to no avail
   Bm                                         
It would take my livid father's manic features
         Bm                                         
Laughing at him as he tried to hack them off his son
             Bm                                      
Knowing that he could not end my life he took his own
                                                                                 Bm         
Mother mourned the death of him and knew that many more would follow if I didn't leave right
    
then
                 Bm                                          
Heading out into the woods I promised I would never come back
                      B7                              
I thank the dead that she knows not what I have become
                                          B7                       
Taking over adolescent tendencies to feed to hunt to kill to change
                                     Bm              
Decades take me deep into the curses endless undertow
                                    Bm              
There is no time or end behind this epidermal prison
                                          B               
My thread of youth imprisoned tortured by immortal victims


[Solo]
Abm Db7 Ab Abm Ab Abm Gb7
■   ■   ■  ■   ■  ■   ■  
Ab7                              
I am the Involuntary Doppelgänger
Dbm Ab7 Dbm Ab7 Dbm Ab7 Dbm
■   ■   ■   ■   ■   ■   ■  


[Verse]
      Dbm                         
I can not stop it my skin is alive
           Ab                       
All of the time I've spent inside it
                                           Ab                                
I never thought it could be calling out to any other Involuntary Doppelgänger
                   Ab7                                       
Had it grown bored of it's feed Or gained knowledge with time
             Dbm                                            
Whatever the change had been I felt it emanating information
       B                                               
Had it tried to send a beacon warning them to stay away
            B                                           
I heard the voices calling back Involuntary Doppelgänger
       B                                               
Had it tried to send a beacon warning them to stay away
                   B                                    
I heard the voices calling back Involuntary Doppelgänger


[Break]
G7 Am E7 Am E7 Fmaj7
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[Solo]
A7                                                
One last face it had to acquire before it's caught
E7                                                                Am 
The menace cloak found her still alive and skinning bodies of her own
E Am E Am Db7 Am
■ ■  ■ ■  ■   ■ 
E B7 Am
■ ■  ■ 
Ab7 B7                                                                                    
It  appeared she had done the same as I for all this time to see her son again and there I
     
stood


[Verse]
                                                     B7                                        
The cloak of others made her impossible to recognize she carved me like any other martyr of our
     
curse
                                                       B                    B7          
When the cult had breached our cabin taking me to be a random victim of the Doppelgänger
                                                         Bm  
Heading out into the woods I promised I would never come back
                                           B7         
I thank the dead that she knows not what I have become
            B7                                                     
Taking over adolescent tendencies to feed to hunt to kill to change
                     Bm                              
Decades take me deep into the curses endless undertow
                      Bm                                
My tongue speaks in a cadence that only AUM can decipher
                                                                                           
Void of bidding heading out a very inner wreathing of a demon with intent to animate and be
     Abmaj7 Ebm Gm7
gone ■      ■   ■  


[End]