§5 Chords by Opeth
- Key: A
- BPM: 95
- Capo: no capo
- Last modified:
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§5 CHORDS
[Intro] [Verse] D7 ■ Starless D7 And darkness waning slowly D7 A cold enigma Dm Would move me forward D7 Oh hapless life G7 D7 G7 D7 Now I pledge to you [Chorus] D7 All secrets revealed now D D7 In paragraphs ■ ■ D D7 Over time ■ you will heal D7 A man saved from a damnation's winter [Solo] Dm D7 D Dm7 Db ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ D And the corpse of your father was entombed D He's my haunting phantasma and my plague D7 E7 Conjured ■ ■ up persecution of my virtue [Verse] Dm B D7 My internal collapse and spiritual leprosy E7 Db C7 A ■ lord Juggernaut [Chorus] Bb7 Bbm Bb7 Like the bearer of ■ death waiting Bbm Dm Decrepit strategies set contaminating ■ Bbm D7 Eating bits of wretched throne forevermore [Inst] D Found no traction in this haze [Solo] D Defiled I'd long for sleep D A tainted family D In a tainted century D Could I justify my reasoning [Inst] D A gray mistake D7 A sunken cold back light [Chorus] Bbm Bb7 He was of inferior class a servant to me Bbm Bb7 Ha the irony in this perverted odyssey Bb7 If our father's word is true Dm We're bastards too Dm It's a riddle No Bbm Or a caper No Bbm A mockery No D7 A deception No C7 My sickly daughter looking on bewildered D7 A jewel in our hierarchy C7 D7 ■ My exalted successor rise C7 D7 In my life [Solo] A7 A A7 A D7 Dm A7 Eb ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Break] A7 A D7 Dm7 G7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] D7 I've asked of you D7 Take care of your kin child D7 And their blood runs in mine D7 Over time you will kneel D Over time you will kneel [Chorus] D7 Rid yourselves of this abomination D Dm Am Bbm In reverence uprooted you are ■ Am And in the summary coming Bbm The proverbial sanctum of mine is up for debate Bbm The execution of will Bbm The crowning of an heiress [Solo] Am Bbm Am Bbm ■ ■ ■ ■ [Chorus] Am Bbm You are tethered to command Am Bbm ■ Requiem devised and signed by hand [Outro] Am Bbm You are tethered to command Am Requiem ■ devised and