Jeff Williams – Red Like Roses Part Ii (Guitar)

Bm              Bm
ooooohhhhh

G       Em      G       A
...hhhhhhhhhhh

Bm                                      G
Red like roses fills my dreams and brings me to the place you rest.

Bm                                      G
White is cold and always yearning, burdened by a royal test.

Bm*
I couldn't take it, couldn't stand another minute;

Bm*
Couldn't bear another day without you in it.

Gmaj7*
All of the joy that I had known for all my life

Em*                       F#m*            G*
Was stripped away from me the minute that you died.

Bm*
To have you in my life was all I ever wanted,

Bm*
But now without you I'm a soul forever haunted.

Gmaj7*
Can't help but feel that I had taken you for granted;

Em*                       F#m*       G*
No way in Hell that I can ever comprehend this.

Bm
I wasn't dreaming when they told me you were gone,

Bm
I was wide awake and feeling that they had to be wrong.

Gmaj7
How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay?

        Em               F#m             G            Cdim
Now I'm trapped inside a nightmare every single f'ing day.

Bm
It's like a movie, but there's not a happy ending;

Bm
Every scene fades black, and there's no pretending.

Gmaj7
This little fairy tale doesn't seem to end well,

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There's no knight in shining armor who will wake me from the spell.

Em                 Bm
I know you didn't plan this;

Em                     Bm* Bm* Bm* Bm*
You tried to do what's right.

Em                        Bm
But in the middle of this madness,

        Cmaj7                     Cmmaj7#11                 F#
I'm the one (I'm the one, I'm the one) you left to win this fight.

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Bm       Gmaj7
Red like roses

         Em                   F#    G A
Fills my head with dreams and finds me

Bm     Gmaj7
Always closer

       Em
To the emptiness and sadness

         F#               G     A  Bm
That has come to take the place of you.

Bm*
I know you're broken down by anger and by sadness;

Bm*
You feel I left you in a world that's full of madness.

Gmaj7*
Wish I could talk to you, if only for a minute;

Em*                     F#m*        G*
Make you understand the reasons why I did it.

Bm*
I wanna tell you that you're all that ever mattered;

Bm*
Want you to know that, for eternity, I'm shattered.

Gmaj7*
I tried so hard just to protect you, but I failed to,

Em*                 F#m*            G*
And in a prison of abandonment I've jailed you.

Bm
I never planned that I would leave you there alone,

Bm
I was sure that I would see you when I made it back home.

Gmaj7
And all the times I swore that it would be okay;

        Em            F#m              G               Cdim
Now I'm nothing but a liar, and you're thrown into the fray.

Bm
This bedtime story ends with misery ever after,

Bm
The pages are torn, and there's no final chapter.

Gmaj7
I didn't have a choice, I did what I had to do;

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I made a sacrifice, but forced a bigger sacrifice on you.

Em                    Bm
I know you've lived a nightmare;

Em                   Bm* Bm* Bm* Bm*
I caused you so much pain.

Em                             Bm
But baby, please don't do what I did;

        Cmaj7                       Cmmaj7#11                       F#
I don't want (I don't want, I don't want) you to waste your life in vain.

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Bm       Gmaj7
Red like roses

         Em                   F#    G A
Fills my head with dreams and finds me

Bm     Gmaj7
Always closer

       Em
To the emptiness and sadness

         F#               G     A  Em
That has come to take the place of you.

Em                          Bm
You're not the only one who needed me; I thought you understood.

    Em                             Bm
You were the one I needed, and you left me as I always feared you would

Em                Bm
Would I change it if I could?

           G           F#m
It doesn't matter how,

           G            F#m
The petals scatter now.

      Em                F#m
Every nightmare just discloses

          G                     A
It's your blood that's red like roses,

       Em            F#m
And no matter what I do,

        G              A         Em
Nothing ever takes the place of you.

Bm       Gmaj7
Red like roses

         Em                   F#    G A
Fills my head with dreams and finds me

Bm     Gmaj7
Always closer

       Em
To the emptiness and sadness

         F#               G*
That has come to take the place...

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