Opeth – River (Guitar)

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TITLE: River ARTIST: Opeth ALBUM: Pale Communion (2014) (twangy arpeggio in 4/4 time signature) D C G G
D    C    G   G
Show me a sign
Of troubles in your heart Spare me your lies And tell me that you're mine
        F F    C            G      
And our bodies float on the river
N/C F F C G (strum once) To the oceans of demi--------------se (finger picking/arpeggio continues) D C G G
D    C       G   G
Made me your slave
To the secrets of your silence But you told to me stay And you told me you're mine
F           C            G
And our bodies float on the river

F       C         G (strum once)
To the oceans of demise
(solo) D C G G (x4) F C G G (x4) (keyboard only, time signature shift to 3/4)
Gm              Dm
In light of all things to come

A#m         Dm
Why do you despair?

Gm               Dm
Because when you have no one

A#m          Am     A  
No one would care

         E
So don’t care
(arpeggio, first 3 strings for each chord below) Am E Dm Am (x2) Dm Am (x4) (strum once)
Gm                 Dm
And all things will come undone

A#m                Dm
There is nothing to share

Gm             Dm
I'll be waiting for no one

A#m           Am     A  
And no one is there

   E
To care
(freaked-out interlude) (strum once)
C5    B5
Can’t see

C5    B5
Can’t feel

C5  B5
You run

C5 B5
I long

C5 B5
I wait

C5  B5
He comes

C5    B5
Takes you

C5 B5
Away
I can't see, can't feel, you run, I long, I wait, he comes to you… (begin strumming 3/4 time signature)
B5
In the embers of summer

G5   F#5   E5   D5
All things must die

B5
There's a passage of fire ahead

G5 F#5 E5   D5        B5
Fire   on   the other side

B5
There comes a time when the river runs dry

B5
Winter comes and we sacrifice

B5
Our lives