Starkid – Twisted - Twisted (Guitar)

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[INTRO] Am [JA'FAR]
     Am
I've gone against my Sultan,
The highest act of treason
    F
But I had good intentions
I did it for a reason.
        G
They'll kill me if I'm lucky
They'll torture me if not
     E
What made me think that I could
Get away with such a plot?
     F
It's not too late to bring it back

   E
Perhaps I'll be forgiven

    Am
But if my crime can help improve
The world we all must live in
   Dm             G
Am I not bound by duty

       F      G  E    Am
To the people of this nation?

F
How does the Golden Rule apply

   E          F
in such a situation?

     Am
As a citizen I think I would be grateful for the aid

    F
But if I were the Sultan, I should hate to be betrayed

     Dm
Whichever road I take'll only encourage someone's wrath

     Bb
'Til now I've always traveled down the straight and narrow path

    Dm              G               C             F
Temptation may have beckoned, but I always have resisted,

    E              F
But which way do I turn

         Dm
When the road's become so... so...
[VAMP] Am Am/E [URSULA, spoken] Twisted? [JA'FAR, spoken] Who are you? [URSULA, spoken] A fellow traveler down a twisted path. [JA'FAR, spoken]: I know you from Sherrezade's stories! [URSULA, spoken]: Uh-uh-uh. You think you know me, as others think they know you, but there are two sides to every story. [URSULA]
  Am             Am/E         Am       Am/E
I used to be the ruler of the ocean

        Am           Am/E           B7
I was benevolent and always kept my word

       E                           Am
But my brother held the antiquated notion

     F               B              E
That women should be seen and never heard

        Am                B               E             Am
So he dethroned me and disowned me and on top of that rezoned me

       Dm               C#           Cm           F
To the outskirts of the kingdom in a cave

        Dm             E
Took my scepter and my crown

         Am                F
Though I tried to take him down

              B7                   E
The truth and I now share a watery grave

    F
The story lingers on

        E               E7       Am         Am/E
But the version that is drawn is twisted

Am Am/E
(G# plucked in bass transition)
[SCAR, spoken] A pain I know all too well
    Am                             Cm
The pride had never seen a more progressive king than me

     Am                      Dm
Both lion and hyena lived in perfect harmony

  C                                 B                 Bm
I brought an end to what had been a senseless age-old feud

  Em                          E
I was prepared for anything except for what ensued

   Am                                 Cm
My brother ate my heirs - my precious cubs! - and stole my throne

  Am                            Cm
Returned to segregation and the hateful ways we'd known

           F            E        Am           B
Though I'd advocate for unity, I always was denounced

          F                     E
So when I saw an opportunity to right the wrong -

  Am  E  Am
I pounced!

          F                        E                   E7
The pride came before my fall in a fate that one might call -

      Am       Am/E
Well, twisted
[VAMP] Am Am/E (spoken) They weren't ready for my ideas [URSULA, spoken] No, they didn't hate you because of your ideas. They hated you because of that evil-looking scar on your face. Fortune favors the beautiful. [GASTON, spoken]
Fmaj7                           Em
Au contraire! My only crime was love.

                                      Fmaj7
In town there was only she who was as beautiful as me - on the inside.

        Em
But then, tragedy struck.

                                             F
She was taken hostage in a castle filled with demonic furniture.

Dm                                       Bb
So I did what anyone would do and I organized a rescue mission.

        Am                                        Fmaj7
But how was I to know that she had fallen in love with her captor?

   Am                                       F                          E
To me, that doesn't seem entirely healthy, especially since he's a wolf-bear thing.
A buffalo monster. In a cape.
              F
But the heart wants what it wants -
(sung)
    E                 E7       Am  Am/E
And sometimes what it wants is twisted
[VAMP]
Am Am/E
[VILLAINS (Sung, underneath the following spoken lines)]
Twisted, Twisted... [URSULA, spoken] I only wanted to reclaim what was mine! [SCAR, spoken] I only wished for equal rights for all! [GASTON, spoken] I only wished to save her! [MALEFICENT, spoken] I only wished to be invited to the party [SCAR, spoken] I only wished to improve relations between the races [CAPTAIN HOOK, spoken] I only wished to teach the boy responsibility [URSULA, spoken] I only wished to give the people a voice [CAPTAIN HOOK, spoken] So he wouldn't end up like me [GASTON, spoken] I only wished to love her [URSULA, spoken] To help the miserable, lonely, and depressed [MALEFICENT, spoken] To be included [SCAR, spoken] To live in harmony! [MALEFICENT, spoken] For once! [CAPTAIN HOOK, spoken] I never knew my father! [ALL, Frenzied] I only wished! I only wished! I only wished!..... [Repeat, until -]
                      B              G              F
I only wished! I only wished! I only wished! I only wished!
[CRUELA DE VIL, spoken]
       E
I only wished to have a coat made out of puppies!
[ALL] (Cluttered speech, ad lib) [MALEFICENT, spoken] Just leave! [JA'FAR, spoken] Why would you do that? [SCAR, spoken] That's insane! [CAPTAIN HOOK, spoken] Get out! [URSULA, spoken] It's an unfortunate situation, but you do have a choice. [JA'FAR]
       Am
What remains of a man when that man is dead and gone?

     F
Only memories and stories of his deeds will linger on

    G
But if a man's accomplishments aren't in the tale they tell

        F                            Dm
Are the deeds that go unheralded his legacy as well?

     F                E             Am
If a war breaks out tomorrow, we'll all have hell to pay

       Am                        F               Am
Why protect my reputation? I'm a dead man either way

    F                 C
How will they tell my story?

    F
How will they tell my tale?

     Bb      A    Dm      C
Will anybody even care?

    G                             Bb
The question then is whether 'tis nobler in the mind

           F
To be well-liked but ineffectual, or moral but maligned?

     D                           C
I'll never be a hero who all the citizens adore

    G                               F                A
But if I hide to save my life, what has my life been for?

     F                A
What has my life been for?

    Am
The road ahead may twist

    F
But I will never swerve

     Dm                           Bb
I'll give them all the unsung antihero they deserve

     F
I've nothing left to lose

       E                      Am         Dm
So the only path to choose is twisted

         F
Let them twist my words, let the people scorn me

                              D
Who cares if no one will ever mourn me?

         C                    E7                  Am         Dm
Let them bury the side of the story they'll never learn

                 F          Bb
Let the truth be twisted

               Am           D
Let my life be twisted

        Bb       Bb7  Em Am
I'll be twisted, it's my turn!