Alesana – A Gilded Masquerade (Guitar)

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Notes: Screams are in parenthesis, female vocals in the bridge are in {these} just to help differentiate because there is so much overlap! [Intro]

        C#m                   B               E   A
As the water drips from the sky, I start to wonder

        C#m                B                E G#m A
If I'm still alive, then I have to find the answer

        C#m                  B                     E    A
Could it be that it was a dream, and I'm still beside her?

        C#m                 B                 G#m   A
Right before my eyes, a tragic surprise, the water stops

[Verse 1]

C#m                      B                    A
    Wickedness will rain, and drown us in her

Sorrow (and her thirst)

  C#m                B
If I hope to survive, I must think faster

G#m             A
    I'm losing ground

                          B
Should I pull back the veil?

[Chorus]

            C#m              G#m       A
You had the best of me (now taste the worst)

All that glimmers is not gold

E                          B
  I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness

C#m      G#m        A
You had me convinced that together we could fly

E                  B
  Until I started scratching at the surface

      A
(And saw beyond your masquerade)

      B
Your body is an illness

[Verse 2]

C#m                      B              A
    Temples crashing down all around me

Panic (chokes the streets)

     C#m              B
The golden city falls

                     G#m        A
And with it our lives go up in flames

       A                  B
Should I pull back the veil?

[Chorus]

            C#m              G#m       A
You had the best of me (now taste the worst)

All that glimmers is not gold

E                          B
  I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness

C#m      G#m        A
You had me convinced that together we could fly

E                  B
  Until I started scratching at the surface

      A
(And saw beyond your masquerade)

      B
Your body is an illness

[Bridge]

C#m
All shall be made clear

             B        E
{We've been watching you wander}

My blood runs cold

 C#m         B       E   G#m  A
{There's no need to run farther}

I fear I know the truth

 C#m     B     A     E   F#m
{Come into our arms, brother}

(I tear back the cowl and stare into my own eyes)

 C#m     B      E
{Now we can be one forever}

Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Yeah!

C#m        G#
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

C#m        G#
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

A B

C#m        G#
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

C#m        G#
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

A B G# C#m B A B G# C#m B C#m B C#m B [Chorus]

A                 B
I pull back the veil

            C#m              G#m       A
You had the best of me (now taste the worst)

All that glimmers is not gold

E                          B
  I may be wrong but your brilliance is my darkness

C#m      G#m        A
You had me convinced that together we could fly

E                  B
  Until I started scratching at the surface

      A
(And saw beyond your masquerade)

      B
Your body is an illness

          A
(And I'm sickened by the thought of you!)

       B                   A
I may never be the same again

B C#m

        F#m                A
(I may never be the same again)