Marillion – Blind Curve (Guitar)

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[I. Vocal Under A Bloodlight] Bm A F#m G
                          Bm      A
Last night you said I was cold, untouchable

  F#m                          G
A lonely piece of action from another town

                  Bm                 A
I just want to be free, I'm happy to be lonely

          F#m
Can't you stay away?

              G
Just leave me alone with my thoughts

       Bm              A
Just a runaway, just a runaway

    F#m
I'm saving myself
[II. Passing Strangers] G
Gmaj7                                   G
Strung out below a necklace of carnival lights

                                    F#m
Cold moan, held on the crest of the night

                 F#m
I'm too tired to fight.

             G                            Gmaj7
So now we're passing strangers, at single tables

Gmaj7
Still trying to get over

                                     F#m
Still trying to write love songs for passing strangers

F#m
All those passing strangers

Gmaj7
And the twinkling lies, all those twinkling lies

                                F#m
Sparkle with the wet ink on the paper
[III. Mylo] F#m G Gmaj7 G X3 Em7 A Em A
      Em
Oh I remember Toronto when Mylo went down

       A
And we sat and cried on the phone

                Em
I never felt so alone

                        A
He was the first of our own

Em
Some of us go down in a blaze of obscurity

A
Some of us go down in a haze of publicity

    Em                             A
The price of infamy, the edge of insanity

        Em
Another Holiday Inn, another temporary home

       A
And an interviewer threatened me with a microphone

Em                                  A
'Talk to me, won't you tell me your stories."
Em A X2
     Em
So I talked about conscience and I talked about pain

       A
And he looked out the window and it started to rain

          Em                      A
I thought maybe I've already gone crazy

     Em
So I reached for a bottle and he reached for the door

      A
And I picked up the sleeping pills crushed on the floor

Em                        A
Inviting me to a casual obscenity.
F# D E Bm X3 [IV. Perimeter Walk]
F#
It would be incredible if we could

F#
Retrace all the times that we lived here

F#m
All the collisions

F#m
Wasted, I've never been so wasted

                    F#       F#m
I've never been this far out before

F#m
Perimeter walk

         F#
There's a presence here

F#m
I feel could have been ancient,

F#m
I could have been mystical

F#m
There's a presence

F#m
A child, my child

F#m
My childhood, a misplaced childhood

F#m
Give it back to me, give it back to me

F#m
A childhood, that childhood

                         A
Oh please give it back to me.
A G A G [V. Threshold]
        A
I saw a war widow in a launderette

                              G
Washing the memories from her husband's clothes

        A
She had medals pinned to a threadbare greatcoat

  G
A lump in her throat with cemetery eyes

      D
I see convoys curbcrawling West German Autobahns

C
Trying to pick up a war

                          D
They're going to even the score

              C
Oh... I can't take any more

      A
I see black flags on factories

                          G
Soup ladies poised on the lips of the poor

      A                                                     G
I see children with vacant stares, destined for rape in the alleyways

                           D
Does anybody care, I can't take any more!

          C              D    C
Should we say goodbye?

      A
I see priests, politicians

                        G
Heroes in black plastic body-bags under nations' flags

      A
I see children pleading with outstretched hands

           G
Drenched in napalm, this is no Vietnam

        D                        C
I can't take any more, should we say goodbye

        D
How can we justify?

          C
They call us civilised!
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