Marillion – Incubus (Guitar)
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Marilion - Incubus
From the album Fugazi (1984)
Chords by Michael Trost (Mitch 18 Januar), with thanks to Ed Elloway, Marc Roy, Michel Schudel
and Darren Greaves, on whose work some of his transcriptions are based.
[Intro]
Am G/E Am G/E Am G/E Am G/E
[Verse 1]
Am G/E Am G/E Am G/E When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion Am G/E Am G/E Forewarned, my audience leaves the stage Am G/E Floating ahead perfumed shift Am G/E Within the stammering silence Am G/E The face that launched a thousand frames Am G/E Am G/E Am G/E Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career
[Interlude]
Am G/E Am G/E
[Verse 2]
Am G/E Am G/E Am G/E Am/G You played this scene before, you played this scene before Am G/E Am G/E I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye Am G/E Am G/E A misplaced reaction
[Synth solo]
Cm Gm7 Cm Gm7 Cm Gm7 Cm Gm7
[Bridge]
Am Bm The darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images
In which you will always be the star (always be the star)
Em Am Untouchable, unapproachable, constant in the darkness Bm Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction Em With no flower to place before this gravestone Am And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin Bm But that would only be developing the negative view Em And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour Am The public act, let you model your shame Bm On the mannequin catwalk, catwalk Em Let the cats walk, and the cat walks
[Interlude]
Am G/E Am G/E
[Verse 3]
Am G/E Am G/E Am G/E Am/G I've played this scene before, I've played this scene before Am G/E Am G/E I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye Am G/E Am G/E A misplaced reaction, satisfaction
[Interlude]
Am Em D D A Em D D A
[Bridge]
Em D D A You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs Em D A The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear Em D Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity A Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity Em D A You who I directed with lovers will, you who I let hypnotise the lens Em D You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare A Em D You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask A Just like a greasepaint mask
[Guitar solo]
Fm C#m D E (8 times)
[Bridge 2]
F#m C#m D E But now I'm the snake in the grass, the ghost of film reels past F#m C#m D E F#sus4 F# I'm the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun C#sus4 C#m It's just begun
[Outro]
F#sus4 F# Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets C#sus4 C#m F#sus4 As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows F# C#sus4 C#m Flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips F#sus4 F# Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary C#sus4 C#m My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude F#sus4 F# C#sus4 C#m Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt F#sus4 F# C#sus4 C#m Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt C# You've played this scene before