Am G Am C G
[Verse 1]
Am G Am
Dahlia floated like chimney ash
G Am
Up into a shredded sky
G Am
It was raining acidic trash
G F
On the moon there crawled a fly
G F G Am
Burning Teslas were driving by
G Am
At their wheels, evil clowns
G F G F
And from the darkness there came a howling
G Am G Am G
And somehow it called her down
[Interlude]
G F G F G F G F
[Chorus]
Am G Am G Am G Am G
(Our nightmare) Our Nightmare Epiphany
F G F Am G Am G Am G
(Our bad dream) Our Nightmare Epiphany
[Verse 2]
Am G
Then she saw him howling fury
Am G
And he struggled with elastic chains
Am G
And his parents smiled coldly
Am G
As they shackled him down again
F G
There were leeches that were spiders
F
And spiders that were flies
G Am G
The very stones that were his teachers
Am
Laughed in Mockery
G F G
Then sweet Dahlia reached out to him
F G
And she tried to pull him free
Am G
But the fallen angels that ran the place
Am G
Enfolded him with monstrous glee
[Interlude]
F
[Chorus]
Am G Am G Am G Am G
(Our nightmare) Our Nightmare Epiphany
F G F Am
(Our bad dream) Our Nightmare Epiphany
Am G Am G Am
(Our nightmare) Our Nightmare Epiphany
F G F Am G Am G Am
(Our bad dream) Our Nightmare Epiphany
[Interlude]
Am
G F G F
[Bridge]
G F G F
Then Dahlia woke, then Dahlia woke in clinging sheets
G F G F
Her fever broke but the dream remained
G F G F
She couldn’t forget it though a season passed
G F G Am
She wouldn’t let it slip away
[Verse 3]
G C
And then she met him down at the mall
G
On the edge of the parking lot
Am G Am
Seems that he went to her school
G F
She was popular, he was not
G F
“I remember” (He told her then)
G Am G
“I’ll never forget the dream of chains
Am G
You tried to help me, tried to descend
F G F
Offered me something besides my pain
G Am G
And now I’ve found you
C G
In this concrete world-
N.C.
That only fools believe exists
N.C.
See I knew that you belonged to me
N.C.
In my nightmare epiphany”
[Chorus]
Am G Am G Am G Am G
(Our nightmare) Our Nightmare Epiphany
F G F Am G Am
(Our bad dream) Our Nightmare Epiphany
Am G Am G Am G Am G
(Our nightmare) Our Nightmare Epiphany
Am G Am G Am
(Our bad dream) Our Nightmare Epiphany
[Outro-Guitar Solo]
Am
Am G Em Am G Em Am G Em Am G Em