The Mars Volta – Aegis (Guitar)

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As recorded by The Mars Volta (From the 2012 Album NOCTOURNIQUET) [Intro] D Gm D Gm D Gm Bbm A D Gm Gb Gm [Verse 1]
Gm                    D
The days are catching up to me

Gm                    D7  D
My unconscious fear unbound

Dm    Am      Gm             D
Is it time to tailor fit the notion

                 Gm         D       Gb
That come Sunday I'm in the ground?

Gm                     Gbm D     Gm              D
The obelisk fumes have occupied, emphatically austere

Am                         Gm
A smelter pile made by the debt collector
[Pre-Chorus]
          Bbm                      D   Gm
Where the children should be seen, not heard

              Bbm   Am  Gbm  Gm    C Bb
Even if there is no way back home
[Chorus]
Gm               C Bb
I'm not running away

Gm               C Bb
I'm not running away

Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away

Gm               C Bb
I'm not running away
[Interlude] Gm Gbm D Gm Gbm D Am Gm Bbm Am D Gm Gb [Verse 2]
Gm                     D
Can you hear him saber rattling

Gm                     D
With bones I've left behind?

Am             Gm             D
Obloquy is the bulwark of his implants

     Gm                 D
Am I your son or just a clone?

Gm               D          Gm               D
Dasehra you were sworn to be, a window to my night

Am                  Gm
My subterfuge, just branches to the mandrake
[Pre-Chorus]
          Bbm                      D   Gm
Where the children should be seen, not heard

              Bbm   Am  Gbm  Gm    C Bb
Even if there is no way back home
[Chorus]
Gm      F        Cm Bb
I'm not running away

Gm      F        Cm Bb
I'm not running away

Gm      F        Cm Bb
I'm not running away

Gm      F       Cm Bb
I'm not running away
[Bridge]
Gm        Cm
Under the aegis of cognition

     Ab             F
I am dead, I will escape

Gm        Cm
Engrammic marks of ligature

     Ab             F
I am dead, I will escape

Gm        Cm
Under the aegis of cognition

     Ab            F
I am dead, I will escape

Gm        Cm 
Engrammic marks of ligature

     Ab             F     
Am I dead? Will I escape?
[Interlude] Gm F C Bb [Chorus]
Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away

Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away

G       F        C Bb
I'm not running away

Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away

Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away

Bb
(Am I running away?)

Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away

Bb
(Am I running away?)

Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away

Bb
(Am I running away?)

Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away

Bb
(I am running away)