Darren Criss – The Muse (Guitar)

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Intro: Gm F D Gm x2 Verse:
Gm                         Cm             
You're a diamond that I'm afraid to touch

Gm                                Cm
You're damn near flawless and I'm sure you'd cut

       Eb                 F 
Out my eyes, my hands, my head, my heart

    Dm               Gm 
You tear this canvas skin apart

    D               D7               Gm     F D Gm
Oh, what a waste of human art that'd be

Gm                           Cm
You're a dungeon, but you're made of glass

Gm                     Cm
Your prisoners have no idea they're trapped

           Eb            F
'cause you look so beautiful inside

   Dm                 Gm
It makes us feel like we're alive

    D                  D7               Gm      F D G
but lord knows we'll never survive your walls
Chorus:
G              Cm             G
But didn't you know that all along

           Cm                 G
You didn't need to hear your song

                 Cm
and if you don't know that 

         Eb               Ebm     F D Gm
then you might as well be dead
Interlude: Gm F D Gm Verse:
Gm                           Cm
Medusa's child preserved her former looks

Gm                          Cm
She kept her out of all the storybooks

        Eb              F
just to get back at all of the men

    Dm                  Gm
who have tried time and time again

   D                  D7             Gm     F D Gm
to claim the right of her demise and end

Gm                               Cm
A million years go by and you're still around

Gm                         Cm
You're knocking us off our feet; you're knocking us down

       Eb                F
but we still can't leave you alone

    Dm               Gm
The way you move one would be prone

   D                 D7           Gm
to want to be turned into stone by you
F D G Chorus:
G              Cm             G
But didn't you know that all along

           Cm                 G
You didn't need to hear your song

                 Cm
and if you don't know that 

         Eb               Ebm
then you might as well be dead
Bridge:
Bb          F         Eb
You make me feel so alive

         Dm                  Cm
but its consequence: I want to be dead

Bb     F        Eb
Was it how you arrived?

        Dm             Cm             Eb
I can't tell or was it in the way you left...

            Gm
us.... here?
Instrumental: Gm F Cm Eb Ebm Chorus:
G              Cm             G
But didn't you know that all along

           Cm                 G
You didn't need to hear your song

                 Cm
and if you don't know that 

         Eb               Ebm
then you might as well be, you might as well, oh

G          Cm                G
You didn't need to hear your song

                Cm           G
'cause you just knew it all along

           Cm
You didn't know that so

    Eb             Ebm              (Gm)
you might as well, might as well be dead