Roger Waters – Flickering Flame (Guitar)

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E
When my neurons conspire to direct my thoughts

A
Away from divorce and competitive sports

E                                           B
Back to the place where all rivers run to the sea

A                E
Then I......I shall be free

A                E
Yes I.......I shall be free        

C
On a see-saw in a strange land

F
The jackdaw sat on the cardinals hand

C
And the fiddlers played
And the planners plan what would be G G7 G G7
C
On a back seat in a court room

F                
sat Molly Malone and Leopold Bloom

C
Until the police came down with a new broom
And swept them clean G G7 G G7
Am
Like Geronimo 
Like Quinn the Eskimo
Em
Like the Blackfoot
And like the Arapaho
Am
Like Crazy Horse

                                   D                         
I'll be the last one to lay down my gun………
G C G C G G/F# Em D C D
C
On the open road in a bar room

F
A pick up band plays a new tune

C
When the coloured girls sing
I feel my heart boom G G7 G G7
C
When a new song hits the right note

F
When a clearing in the sky saves an old boat

C
When an insight strikes the mote
From my own eye G G7 G G7
Am
Like Geronimo 
Like Quinn the Eskimo
Em
Like Blackfoot
And like the Arapaho
Am
Like Crazy Horse

                                  D                         
I'll be the last one to lay down my gun………
G C G C
G        G/F#     Em       D                
They're the same beyond the next plain

                                    E
I'll feel the heat of the flickering flame
E A E B7 x2 A E x2
C
On an African Plain by a thorn tree

F
My old friend Philippe is waiting for me 

C
Quelle sera, sera
What ever will be will be G G7 G G7
C
When a friend dies and the tears rise

F
From that deep well that never runs dry

C
And the women break their bracelets
And the men take their whisky outside G G7 G G7 Am Em Am D G C G C G G/F# Em D C D
E
In a pied 'a' terre 

A
on the rue St Denis 

E
The red velvet curtain pulls back to reveal

B7
The place where the dark side meets the angel in me………..

                          E
the angel in me

C
When my synapses pause in their quest for applause

F
When my ego lets go of its end of the bone

C
To focus instead on a love that is precious to me
G G7
F                C
Then I……………..I shall be free
***repeat above line***