Marillion – The Web (Guitar)

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[Intro] A A G D D G G G A [Verse]
Am          G            D          F
The rain auditions at my window

    Am       G            D         F
Its symphony echoes in my womb

Am                G             D          F
My gaze scans the walls of this apartment

   Am          G              D. F    Am
To rectify the confines of my tomb-ouuuh
F Am
        F                            Em
I'm the cyclops in the tenement, I'm the soul without the cause

F                                Em
Crying 'midst my rubber plants, ignoring beckoning doors

F                                 Gm
Clippings from ancient newspapers lie scattered cross the floor

F                                           Em
Stained by the wine from a shattered glass, Meaningless words, yellowed by time

F                           Gm
Faded photos exposing pain, Celluloid leeches bleeding my mind

               F                         Em
Christ, you've finished playing hangman, you've cast the fateful dice

F                          Gm
Advise, advise, advise me, This shroud shall not suffice

Am  G  D  F                     Am G D F
         And thus begins the web

Am               G                D           F
Attempting to discard these clinging memories

Am               G             D           F
I only serve to wallow in our past

Am               G              D           F
I fabricate the weave with my excuses

Am            G                   D           F
Its strands I hope and pray shall last

Am   G    D   F          Am        G    D   F
              Oh, please do last

Am   G    D   F          Am        G    D   F  Am 
              Oh, please do last
F Gm
    F                         Em
The flytrap needs the insect, ivy caresses the wall

F                                    Gm
Needles make love to the junkies, the sirens seduce with their call

F                                Em
Confidence has deserted me, with you it has forsaken me

F                                            Em
Confused and rejected, despised and alone, I kiss isolation on its fevered brow

F                         Em
Security clutching me, obscurity threatening me

      F                                    Em
Christ, your reasons were so obvious as my friends have qualified

    F                                   Em
I only laughed away your tears, but even jesters cry

Am   G    D   F         Am         G    D   F
              But even jesters cry

Am          G               D           F
I realise I hold the key to freedom

      Am            G                D           F
Oh, I cannot let my life be ruled by threads

    Am       G            D           F
The time has come to make decisions

    Am      G          D           F
The changes have to be made
Am G F G x4 (solo)
Am          G               D           F
I realise I hold the key to freedom

  Am            G                D           F
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads

    Am       G              D           F
The time has come to make decisions

    Am      G          D           F    Am 
The changes have to be made

Bm
Now I leave you, the past does have its say

C                          D
You're all but forgotten, a mote in my heart

 Em
Decisions have been made

                   E
They've been made, they've been made
D E D E X4 (solo 2)
E   E E     D                 E
          Decisions have been made

D                   E
   I've conquered my fears

    D         C
Oh, my fears

     B              E
The flaming shroud

            D           C
The flaming shroud

          B
Thus ends the web, the web, the web.

E
The web.