Blue Öyster Cult – Nightmare Epiphany (Guitar)

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As recorded by Blue Öyster Cult (From the 2020 Album THE SYMBOL REMAINS) [Intro] Am G Am C G [Verse 1]
Am     G                    Am
Dahlia floated like chimney ash

     G              Am
Up into a shredded sky

       G              Am
It was raining acidic trash

       G                    F
On the moon there crawled a fly

G       F           G        Am
Burning Teslas were driving by

G                Am
At their wheels, evil clowns

G            F              G         F
And from the darkness there came a howling

    G          Am     G   Am  G
And somehow it called her down
[Interlude] G F G F G F G F [Chorus]
 Am  G    Am             G          Am G Am G
(Our nightmare) Our Nightmare Epiphany

 F   G   F               Am           G Am G Am G
(Our bad dream) Our Nightmare Epiphany
[Verse 2]
         Am              G
Then she saw him howling fury

       Am                     G
And he struggled with elastic chains

        Am             G
And his parents smiled coldly

        Am                 G
As they shackled him down again

           F                 G
There were leeches that were spiders

       F
And spiders that were flies

G        Am                   G
The very stones that were his teachers

           Am
Laughed in Mockery

     G                    F       G
Then sweet Dahlia reached out to him

        F                 G
And she tried to pull him free

               Am          G
But the fallen angels that ran the place

  Am              G
Enfolded him with monstrous glee
[Interlude] F [Chorus]
 Am  G    Am             G          Am G Am G
(Our nightmare) Our Nightmare Epiphany

 F   G   F               Am
(Our bad dream) Our Nightmare Epiphany

 Am  G    Am             G          Am
(Our nightmare) Our Nightmare Epiphany

 F   G   F               Am            G Am G Am
(Our bad dream) Our Nightmare Epiphany
[Interlude] Am G F G F [Bridge]
G           F                 G                F
Then Dahlia woke, then Dahlia woke in clinging sheets

G         F     G             F
Her fever broke but the dream remained

G                   F  G               F
She couldn’t forget it though a season passed

G                 F G     Am
She wouldn’t let it slip away
[Verse 3]
                     G           C
And then she met him down at the mall

                   G
On the edge of the parking lot

Am         G              Am
Seems that he went to her school

        G               F
She was popular, he was not

G                F
“I remember” (He told her then)

G              Am               G
“I’ll never forget the dream of chains

             Am                G
You tried to help me, tried to descend

           F                    G    F
Offered me something besides my pain

G            Am     G
And now I’ve found you

C                G
In this concrete world-
N.C. That only fools believe exists N.C. See I knew that you belonged to me N.C. In my nightmare epiphany” [Chorus]
 Am  G    Am             G          Am G Am G
(Our nightmare) Our Nightmare Epiphany

 F   G   F               Am            G Am
(Our bad dream) Our Nightmare Epiphany

 Am  G    Am             G           Am G Am G
(Our nightmare) Our Nightmare Epiphany

 Am  G   Am              G          Am
(Our bad dream) Our Nightmare Epiphany
[Outro-Guitar Solo] Am Am G Em Am G Em Am G Em Am G Em