Bm G Remember how it all began, the apple and the fall of manD A The price we paid,so the people sayBm G Down a path of shame it lead us, dared to bite the hand that fed usD A Bm The fairy tale. The moral end. The wheel of fortune never turns again ` ` ==CHORUS== Bm G D Bm (x2) (Never turns again) ` ` ==VERSE==Bm G The worst of it has come and gone in the chaos of millenniumD A In the falling out of the doomsday crowdBm A G Their last retreat is moving slow, they burn their bridges as they goD A Bm The heretic is beatified, he'll teach the harlot's child to smile ` ` ==CHORUS== Bm G D Bm (x2) `` ==VERSE==Bm G Wracked again by indecision, should we make that small incisionD A Testify to the bleeding heart inside?Bm G We cut, we scratched, we rent, we slashed and when he opened up at lastD A Found a cul-de-sac deep and black of smoke and ash ` ` ==CHORUS== Bm G D Bm (x2) (Deep and black, smoke and ash) ` ` ==VERSE==Bm G The wicked king of parody is kissing all his enemiesD A On the seventh day of the seventh weekBm G The tyrant's voice is softer now, but just for one forgiving hourD A Before the rise of his iron fist again ` ` ==CHORUS== Bm G D Bm (x2) (Fist again) ` ` ==INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE==F#m D F#m D F#m D A ` ` ==VERSE==Bm G I've come tonight, I've come to know the way we are the way we'll goD A Come to measure this the width of the wide abyssBm G I come to you in restless sleep where all your dreams turn bitter-sweetD A With voodoo doll philosophies and day-glo holy trinitiesBm G The crooked raft that leaves the shore ferries drunken souls aboardD A Pilgrims march to Compestela visions of their saint in yellowBm G All follow deep in trance, lost in a catatonic danceD A F#m D Know no future, damn the past, blind, warm, ecstatic, safe at last... ` ` ==OUTRO==F#m D (X8)
Thick As Thieves
Natalie Merchant
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