The Raven Child

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Wild groves, sacred grounds fade to vastness
Am      G               Em              F
Mother Moon, cast your spell on these fields
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Let the boughs paint ghostly shades on the trail
F     G
To a different world

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Where the castle looks out to a valley
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Where I'm given all the love that I crave
Am     G/B         C       F      Am
Not afraid of the rising sun laying bare
F    G
my brittle soul

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Dm            Em
Cold is the wind
Am              G
Bringing forth clarity
Dm           Em
Time rushing on
     Am
And nothing will remain
Dm         Em    F            G
There's no glory on the last journey
Am G/B C  F Am G
Hooooooo, hooooome
Am G   C  F Am G
Hooooooo, hooooome
Am G/B C  F Am G
Hooooooo, hooooome
Am G   C  F  Am  G
Hooooooo, hooooome

[Interlude 1]
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Gm F  Gm Eb F
Gm F  Gm Eb F
Gm F  Gm Eb Dm

[Verse 2]
Gm       F              Gm          F
Looking down from this pure cup of heaven
Gm        F       Gm          F
Onto an ocean of white that drowns
         Eb         Dm
All the noise and decree
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And the craze in empty eyes

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Wide-eyed I'm lost in my imagination
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A dream of love, I've got to suffocate
F                Eb
While I keep on waiting
        Dm                        Gm  F
For the hour I'll be called to realize
Gm          F            Gm F  Gm
And see it all before my eyes

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Eb                             Gm
The sky is crawling down the mound
                          D5 Eb5 D5 Eb5 D5
Into the deadwood on the ground, They say
Eb                     Dm
Spectres flare and spit and rise
                  Cm
To mingle with the skies
                    F
And take all that's never meant to be

[Chorus]
  Am               G/B            C              G
A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way
              Dm
Gonna run and never get away
F     Am                  Em      F
Is it love that glows in fiery alignment?
Dm      G           Em       F
Starry-eyed, maybe living a lie? A lonely heart in an endless line

[Interlude 2]
Gm        F   Gm F
Oh raven child
Gm     F      Gm Eb Dm
Raven child

[Verse 2]
   Gm              F/G
Bewildering and strange
                Gm                F/G
The scent of spring and cherry blossoms
Gm              F/G
Sweet scent of rain
         Gm           F/G             Eb
They're calling you astounding how it is
                        Dm
Not the same it used to be
                           Gm           F/G        Gm  F/G
When you're compelled behind The crenel on your own

    Gm                F/G
The tolling of the bell
         Gm           F/G
Is there anyone to tell me
Gm                F/G
What they wanna say?
Gm        F/G    Eb
Voices go on and on and on to me
           Dm
But their tongues won't permeate
           Gm  F/G  Gm
Throughout my soul

[Pre-Chorus 3]
Eb                        Gm
In your altered state of mind
                 D5 Eb5 D5 Eb5 D5
In vain you're chasing light
Eb                  Dm
Your master in his frown
                Cm
Denial of the crown of creation
F
You're made to think you are

[Chorus]
  Am               G/B            C              G
A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way
              Dm
Gonna run and never get away
F     Am                  Em      F
Is it love that glows in fiery alignment?

  Am               G/B            C              G
A fire in the dark for the fool's gonna find his way
              Dm
Gonna run and never get away
F     Am                  Em      F
Is it love that glows in fiery alignment?
Dm      G           Em       F
Starry-eyed, maybe living a lie? A lonely heart in an endless line

[Solo]
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Bm F#m G D
Bm F#m G Em F#m
Bm F#m G A D

[Verse 3]
Bm      A            G             A
Light breeze in the crowns of the willows
Bm      A              F#m             G
Green fields as if the day was on the wane
Em   D            A          Bm
Grow faint and attain to perfection
Em      D              C
What a backdrop for a diamond

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And so we sway in the wind like the willow
Bm             A         F#m           G
Meant to give way to the order of the storm
Em             D            A           Bm
Won't leave a mould in the marsh of the ages
Em       D            C
A tired chevalier of fortune

Bm         A            G              A
Blue and serene once a sky swanned on magic
Bm      A            F#m          G
The unborn in the stream of destiny
Em      D        A              Bm
Time flows to become a mound of nothing
Em            D          C
For a broken soldier of fortune

[Bridge]
Em
On my
Em
Comin' down, goin' all the way now, You won't get away You know
Em
Finally the way you're shown You're goin' now Comin' down (x8)
C D

          Em
Into the light
                       D
In the light there's a crack torn open
C           D
From underneath the day
Em                   D
In the light, but a crack, is it growing?
C                     D
Feel the dark rolling in, your way

Em                D
Feel the light look away it's gonna blind you
C            D
Ignite your spirits fly
Am
See a light to uncloak their master
Bm             D
To arouse the beaten mind

Am                      G
In the light there's a crack torn open
F          G
From underneath the day (You dream and fly)
Am                    G
In the light, but a crack, is it growing?
F                      G
Feel the dark rolling in your way (Hey raven child)

Am                G
Feel the light look away it's gonna blind you
F            G
Ignite your spirits fly
Dm
Uncloak the raven master
E
To arouse the beaten mind

[Interlude 3]
Am G
Am C D
Am G
Am C D
E
Yeah

[Otro]
    Am                F
You tuck away yourself inside
    C                 G
You ride away on the inmost light
     Am    F           C
Your soul glowing opal-blue
  Am              G
A million voices fade away
  Am                              F
I never really got what they're trying to say
        Am    F         C/E      G
For my words there's no getting through

        Am                     F
Oh, you sail to the night's plutonian shore
     C                         G               Am
You drift to sleep, you can't take no more of this
     F             C
And like a raven child
     Am                 G
You spread your paltry wings and throw
     C                      F                 Am
Yourself into the wind to escape from all below
         F        C/E     G
That despised the raven child

Am                      F
Am I awake or is it an evil dream
   C              G
Or maybe the ugly in between
     Am     F            C
Like me, a weak hermaphrodite
Am         G                 C
A broken soul in unimpaired parts
             F                      Am
In quest for light but it was the dark
       F       C/E       G
That embraced the raven child

Am               F
A cloak of invisibility
   C                     G
To curtain the face of deformity
Am  F              C
No, darkness let me in
   Am                  G
Off to the night's plutonian shores
      C                      F                Am
You dream and hope you won't wake no more to this
F     C/E    G
Flying raven child (Oh, fiery eyes)

C   F C/E G
Oh, fiery eyes (Flying raven child)
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Oh, to escape from all below
C           Dm    Am
Spread your wings and go
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Like a raven child