The Gaslight Anthem – Changing Of The Guards (Guitar)

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Sixteen years,

       A         E              F#m
Sixteen banners united over the fields

          D             E
While the good shepherd grieves

          F#m       A           E 
Desperate men, desperate women divided,

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Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves.

        F#m
Fortune calls.

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I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,

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Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.

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She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born,

               D    E         A
On midsummer's eve, near the tower.

                 F#m
The cold-blooded moon.

            A                   E 
The captain waits above the celebration

            F#m           D       E
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid

            F#m           A       E
Whose ebony face is beyond communication.

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The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.

                F#m
They shaved her head.

                     A               E
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo.

            F#m            D            E
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale.

                  F#m         A                  E
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow,

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Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.

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I stumbled to my feet.

            A                  E
I rode past destruction in the ditches

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With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo.

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Renegade priests and treacherous young witches

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Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.

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The palace of mirrors

          A              E
Where dog soldiers are reflected,

            F#m          D          E
The endless road and the wailing of chimes,

          F#m             A            E
The empty rooms where her memory is protected,

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Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times.

              F#m
She wakes him up

                  A                 E
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking

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Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks.

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She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking

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He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.

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Gentlemen, he said,

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I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,

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I've moved your mountains and marked your cards

               F#m                  A          E
But Eden is burning, either get brave for elimination

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Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.

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Peace will come

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With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire

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But will offer no reward when her false idols fall

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And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating

            D            E           A
Between the King and the Queen of Swords.

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