Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

*3, *1, *3, *1

*3, *1, *2, *1

Verse 1

Strummed

Sometimes an empire doesn't fall

As masked invaders climb the walls

Or spreading fires or rising floods

Sometimes it dies within

The king and queen, they go to bed

On years of quiet neglect

To find the coffers bare but with

The musk of arrogance

The musk of arrogance

With me, you're making the same mistakes I made

Something

with you I couldn't convey I felt the same

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It's true, we're marionettes

But we pull the strings

 Something

And here as we dance, we tangle

I'm spinning you round and closer we're wound

We're marionettes

Intro

*3, *1, *3, *1

*3, *1, *2, *1

There's comfort in a holding hand

A schedule on which you depend

A cage in which you're snugly penned

That's what we have become

A cyclone in a glass of wine

We both have wishbones for a spine.

But how long will we play this record's tattered side

Afraid to change the song?

Afraid to change the song?

(Into chorus again)

During the Chorus:

(The piano here is alternating between E and A, which you can get with your A

Major or A Minor at 5, strumming your A and D string. That little high piano riff

before the guitar comes in is C# and A; the C# is on the e string at fret9, the A

is on the b string at fret10. You can actually build a finger picking pattern on

this by barring at 7 and hitting your 3rd finger on the e string at 9, and your

pinky on the b string at 10. It's slightly uncomfortable. Leaving out the piano

part lets you hang out in an A Major at 5 and be readier for the chord shift up to B Major).