The Cure – The Figurehead (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
Key
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Versions (3)

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Chords

G* 355433 [Intro] C#m B F#m A C#m B F#m A C#m B F#m A [Verse 1]
C#m             B
Sharp and open, leave me alone

    F#m                      A
And sleeping less every night

       C#m                     B
As the days become heavier and weighted

               F#m         A
Waiting in the cold light

           C#m                              B
A noise, a scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten

F#m                            A
  With spiders inside them and dust

            C#m             B
And the lips of a vision of hell

                 F#m                  A         C#m
I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year
[Interlude] B F#m A C#m B F#m A [Verse 2]
  C#m                 B                  F#m     A
A hundred other words blind me with your purity

        C#m                     B
Like an old painted doll in the throes of dance

  F#m
I think about tomorrow

A
Please let me sleep

C#m                B
As I slip down the window

F#m                  A
Freshly squashed fly

         C#m      B
You mean nothing

         F#m      A
You mean nothing
[Interlude] C#m G C#m G C#m G C#m G C#m B F#m A C#m B F#m A C#m B F#m A C#m B F#m A [Verse 3]
      C#m            B               F#m             A
I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girls

             C#m                 B              F#m
All the time, lose me in the dark, please do it right

A                   C#m               B
Run into the night, I will lose myself tomorrow

    F#m          A
Crimson pain, my heart explodes

     C#m           B                  F#m
My memory in a fire, and someone will listen

   A
At least for a short while
[Interlude] C#m G C#m G C#m G C#m G E G* E G* E G* E G* F#m F#m F#m F#m [Chorus]
F#m               F#m
  I can never say no

                F#m  
I can never say no

      F#m     C#m
To anyone but you
[Interlude] B F#m A C#m B F#m A C#m B F#m A C#m B F#m A [Verse 4]
C#m               B
Too many secrets, too many lies

F#m                  A
Writhing with hatred

C#m               B                    F#m     A
Too many secrets, please make it good tonight

              C#m                B                       F#m
But the same image haunts me, in sequence, in despair of time

       A
I will never be clean again

C#m              B                       F#m
  I touched her eyes, pressed my stained face

       A
I will never be clean again

C#m             B                     F#m
   Touched her eyes, press my stained face

       A
I will never be clean again
[Outro]
C#m    B    F#m         A
                 I will never be clean again

C#m    B    F#m         A
                 I will never be clean again

C#m    B    F#m         A
                 I will never be clean again