Pain of Salvation – Ashes (Guitar)

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album: The Perfect Element pt. 1 Tabbed by: dAEn Type: Chords Tuning: EADGBe
Tonic: F
Chord progression: iii i iv

Chords: Am, F, Dm
Tempo: 70bpm
Time signature: 4/4 Each showed chord is the half of a metre. Intro ----- Am F Dm Dm Am F Dm Dm Couplet 1 --------- Am
F                      Dm   Dm                  Am
You claim I don't know you, but I know you well

  F               Dm     Dm                     Am
I read in those ash eyes we've been through hell

F                        Dm  Dm           Am
I've walked with the weakest just to feel strong

F                 Dm   Dm            Am
You've given your body just to belong

F             Dm   Dm Am
Let's burn together

F             Dm   Dm
Let's burn together
Refrain ------- Am F Dm
Dm
This pain will never end
Am F Dm
Dm
These scars will never mend
Couplet 2 --------- Am
F            Dm     Dm                   Am
I taste your sorrow and you taste my pain

F             Dm    Dm             Am 
Drawn to each other for every stain

F              Dm  Dm                    Am
Licking the layers of soot from your skin

F                       Dm  Dm             Am
Your tears work my crust to let yourself in

F            Dm    Dm Am
Touching you harder

F            Dm  Dm
Touching you harder now
Refrain ------- Am
      F                 Dm
As we walk through the ashes

Dm                 Am
I whisper your name

        F            Dm    Dm Am
A taste of pain to cling to

      F                 Dm
As we walk through the ashes

Dm                 Am
You whisper my name

          F                Dm         Dm
Who's the one with the sickest mind...
Couplet 3 ---------
Am
Now?
F Dm
Dm
This pain will never end
Am F Dm
Dm                       Am
Our scars will never mend

          F
Cleansing sweat

   Dm             Dm
We are just using each other

                Am
Too depraved to stay alive

        F
But too young to die
Dm Dm
       Am
And we hurt

 F              Dm
(Scrubbing it harder)

Dm                      Am
Too late to back out now

F              Dm     Dm
(Scrubbing it even harder)
As these two broken barren desolate disordered words collide Refrain ------- Am
      F                 Dm
As we walk through the ashes

Dm                 Am
I whisper your name

        F            Dm    Dm Am
A taste of pain to cling to

      F                 Dm
As we walk through the ashes

Dm                 Am
You whisper my name

          F                Dm         Dm
Who's the one with the sickest mind...
Solo ----
Am
Now?
F Dm Dm Am F Dm Dm Am F Dm Dm Am F Dm Dm Outro ----- Am F Dm
Dm
This pain will never end
Am F Dm
Dm
These scars will never mend
Am F Dm
Dm
Damn this dirty bed
Am F Dm
Dm
Damn this dirty head