black midi – The Magician (Guitar)

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[Intro] E Eadd2 E Eadd2 E Eadd2 E Eadd2 F#m E Eadd2 F#m E B
E Eadd2
        When the smoke clears,

E Eadd2
        what's left?

E Eadd2
        Goodbye, goodbye
E Eadd2 F#m E Eadd2 F#m E B Play Chords on beat E E G#m G#m E E G#m G#m Ab7m Ab7m E E G#m G#m E E G#m G#m E [Verse]
A                          C#m
You drop a kid in gasoline

                       Gm
And give him a lit match
And slap him on the ass
F#m                    E
When he lights himself aflame

A
Like the man who pays his wife

         C#m
Two hundred pounds to have sex

                 Gm7                F#m    Em
Because it's the only way he can come

         A      Amaj7
Like the girl, born a princess

A                 G#
Too early or too late

Gm
Who waits and waits and knows she'll never be queen

F#m E Eadd2           F#m E
          What's left?

 F#m E Eadd2            F#m E B
             What's left?

 E
     The senile cat's incessant meow

 E
     The childrеn's favourite canned cow
E Eadd The soundtrack of an unkеpt house
 E
     The soundtrack of an abandoned spouse
E F#m E Eadd2 F#m E B What's left? E
E                            Em
The whirring cogs of futile despair

E                             Dbm7
The anguish of unanswered prayers

      A                         C#m7
The writhing mass of moaning torment

F#m E Eadd2      F#m  E B
           What's left?
E E G#m G#m E E G#m G#m Ab7m Ab7m E E G#m G#m E E G#m G#m
 A                          C#m
You lure a fly to a blazing lamp

                 Gm
Shut the lid tight
And watch it dance about
         F#m     E
'Til it dies

         A
Like Sirin's chimp

       C#m
Who, when given a pen

  Gm                        F#m   E
Draws only the bars of his cage
E E G#m G#m
        A
Like the gown unworn

        C#m
Like the lawn unmowed/overgrown

         F#
Like the car, all rust

F#m
Like the lungs, black with tar

F#m
Like the bones, black with dust

F#m
Like the heart, black with shame

F#m
Like the eyes, black with age

F#m
Like the stillborns living in his formaldehyde grave

F#m                                      A#
Like his mouth open, crying out to be saved

          A B A#
What is left?

             E A#
What is left?

            A
What is left?

B             E
What is left?
E E G#m G#m E E G#m G#m E E G#m G#m E E G#m G#m E E G#m G#m E E G#m G#m (Piano Solo) F#m E A E Edim F#m E A E Abdim F#m E
    A
And I'm hiding from the government

     E
And my fictional wife

     Gdim
From my dreams and from my memories

      F#m              E
I am running from my life

A                        E             Gdim
 I'm hiding from you, I'm hiding from you

       F#                 E
       I'm hiding from you

           A
I'm hiding from my mistress

            E
And her dream sextets

            Gdim
I’m hiding from my family

                F#m       E   A
I’m hiding from the explanations

   Em               Gdim      F#m7
Of all I’ve been doing wrong

E                     A
I'm running from your lips

                          E
I'm running from your mouth

                     Gdim
I’m hiding from your room

                F#m   E
I’m hiding from doubt

               A
I’m hiding from living

    E
I’m hiding from everything

   Gdim    F#m    E
I'm hiding from you (5x very fast)

A
 When did I meet you?

Em
 Maybe two years ago

D#m
 So much has happened since

F#m7                   E
 You were a million fears ago

A                     Em
 So many since have taken your place

Gm7               Gm         F#m7     E
 A million more things to keep me awake

   A
No! I don't sleep any more

        E
I just rest my eyes

       Gm
I'm running from your lips

       F#m7             E
I'm running from your cries

 A
Your convulsions that crack

      G#m7
The crust of the earth

       Gdim
Your pantomime moans

      F#m7          E
So forced, so rehearsed

A
You're the first I call

G#m
I hate the sound of your voice

Gm
I hate the words you use

                 F#m                E
The phrases you think so choice

                 A
But I'd kiss you a thousand times

                     Ab
If you'd only turn your head

                               Gdim
But you never your head, you'll never turn back

                                     F#m              E
Because just like me, you're not alive, you're dead, you're dead

A                                    Ab
In the German black forest of which I know nothing

    D#
I dream you ride a black horse
Back and forth
F#
Back and forth

E
Back and forth

     A
With no compass to follow

   Ab
Or landmark to reach

     Gm                                   F#       E
You perambulate aimlessly through nondescript trees

        A
In the nondescript forest

          Eb
Of which I know nothing

       D#
And can't visualise at all

            F#            E
Save your faint silhouette

            A
And I clutch and it evades

       Ab
I wake from the dream

        D#
No, no, none of it’s true

         F#               E
I don’t sleep, I don’t sleep!

   A
I wander through cowardice,

   E
Thought and regret

            Gm                   A
Through nothingness, through sagas

                  E
That never took place

                   A
Your kiss, never given

                   Ab
Your touch, never felt

                     Gm
Your words, never spoken

                   F#m   E
Your gift, never dealt

                   A
Your lies, all around
Your deceit, infinite I’m hiding from your never ending torrent of shit Like the spouse happily married Who still dies alone Like the world famous actor Who's still completely unknown Like the German black forest Of you I know nothing I know not your eyes, your skin, your stench, your sins, your arms, your hold, your heart,
                                           A                              G#m
your folds, your nails, your grip, your grin, your tics, your sex, your shame

                     D#
I know only your name
And what’s left of the lover
                 F#m
Who doesn’t exist?

                           E
Who knows not how many fantasies

               A
Involve her kiss?
And what’s left of the dreamer
                                           E
Who dreams, and dreams, and dreams and dreams…

                          Gdim
And who thinks he isn’t dreaming

                          F#
But thinks that he is free

E                                                 A
And what of the endless, heedless, needless are we
And what of the endless, heedless, needless are we
G
And what of the endless, heedless, needless are we

G
Will it end

G
Will it ever let me be?

F#                    E
No, When the smoke clears, it rains, it pours

             A
When it rains, it pours

 E
When it rains, your name

                                    E
When the smoke clears, what's left?
F#m E Eadd2 F#m E B E E G#m G#m E E G#m G#m Ab7m Ab7m E E G#m G#m E E G#m G#m (Groove untill finish)