The Never-Ending Story

Violin riff
E|---7-----7----------------7-----
B|---------------8-8-8------------
G|-----9-9---9-9--------------9-9-
D|--------------------------------
A|--------------------------------
E|--------------------------------

E|7-------------| 
B|------8-8-8---| 
G|--9-9---------| 
D|--------------| 
A|--------------| 
E|--------------| 


Guitar chords
E|---0-0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3------0-0-0-
B|---0-0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3------0-0-0-
G|---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------0-0-0-
D|---2-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0------2-2-2-
A|---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2------2-2-2-
E|---0-0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3------0-0-0-

E|0-0-0-3-3-3---| 
B|0-0-0-3-3-3---| 
G|0-0-0-0-0-0---| 
D|2-2-2-0-0-0---| 
A|2-2-2-2-2-2---| 
E|0-0-0-3-3-3---| 

A                                G
When all should be done and gone
A                           G
He comes round again to see
A                          G
He can't keep himself away
A                                 
He touches her hand and it starts 
      Riff (Em / G)
again

His work is an ugly mess
He prods and it cries in pain
He kicks and it starts to scream
He hurries away where she cannot see

When all should be done and gone
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He comes round again to see
He can't keep himself away
He touches her hand and it starts 
again

Cm
Moving so slowly
Droplets of kindness
That poison and choke
When this thing should have died 
          Riff (Em / G)
long ago!

The entrails are soft and warm
This time it must be the end
One touch and it lives again
He keeps it alive to be part of its 
pain
(And that's mercy
And that's compassion
And that's being good friends in a 
crisis.
What's one corpse between friends?)

Oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh... Leave it boy. Just leave it 
alone!
Stop scratching or it'll never heal!
Just let it lie in peace
Get out of the way, get out of the 
way!

The brakes cannot last for long
He knows he must let it go
He knows but he keeps a hold
He touches her hand and it starts 
again

Moving so slowly
He drops it so gently
Urging its life
To a peak to torment it again!