Twisted - Twisted

Am

[JA'F R]
     Am
I've gone against my Sultan,

The highest act of treason
    F
But I had good intentions

I did it for a reason.

        G
They'll kill me if I'm lucky

They'll torture me if not
     E
What made me think that I could

Get away with such a plot?

     F
It's not too late to bring it back
   E
Perhaps I'll be forgiven
    Am
But if my crime can help improve

The world we all must live in

   Dm             G
Am I not bound by duty
       F      G  E    Am
To the people of this nation?
F
How does the Golden Rule apply
   E          F
in such a situation?

     Am
As a citizen I think I would be 
grateful for the aid
    F
But if I were the Sultan, I should 
hate to be betrayed
     Dm
Whichever road I take'll only 
encourage someone's wrath
     Bb
'Til now I've always traveled down 
the straight and narrow path
    Dm              G             
Temptation may have beckoned, but 
  C             F
I always have resisted,

    E              F
But which way do I turn
         Dm
When the road's become so... so...

[VAMP]

Am Am/E

[URSUA , spoken]
Twisted?

[JA'F R, spoken]
Who are you?

[URSUA , spoken]
A fellow traveler down a twisted 
path.

[JA'F R, spoken]:
I know you from Sherrezade's 
stories!

[URSUA , spoken]:
Uh-uh-uh. You think you know me, as 
others think they know you, but 
there are two sides to every story.

[URSUA ]
  Am             Am/E         Am 
I used to be the ruler of the 
      Am/E
ocean
        Am           Am/E         
I was benevolent and always kept 
  B7
my word
       E                           
But my brother held the antiquated 
Am
notion
     F               B            
That women should be seen and 
  E
never heard
        Am                B       
So he dethroned me and disowned me
        E             Am
 and on top of that rezoned me
       Dm               C#        
To the outskirts of the kingdom in
   Cm           F
 a cave
        Dm             E
Took my scepter and my crown
         Am                F
Though I tried to take him down
              B7                   
The truth and I now share a watery 
E
grave
    F
The story lingers on
        E               E7       
But the version that is drawn is 
Am         Am/E
twisted

Am Am/E
(G# plucked in bass transition)


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[SCAR, spoken]
A pain I know all too well

    Am                         
The pride had never seen a more 
    Cm
progressive king than me
     Am                      Dm
Both lion and hyena lived in perfect
 harmony
  C                                
I brought an end to what had been a
 B                 Bm
 senseless age-old feud
  Em                          E
I was prepared for anything except 
for what ensued
   Am                       
My brother ate my heirs - my 
          Cm
precious cubs! - and stole my throne
  Am                           
Returned to segregation and the 
 Cm
hateful ways we'd known
           F            E        
Though I'd advocate for unity, I 
Am           B
always was denounced
          F                    
So when I saw an opportunity to 
 E
right the wrong -
  Am  E  Am
I pounced!
          F                        
The pride came before my fall in a 
E                   E7
fate that one might call -
      Am       Am/E
Well, twisted

[VAMP]
Am Am/E

(spoken)
They weren't ready for my ideas

[URSUA , spoken]
No, they didn't hate you because of 
your ideas.
They hated you because of that 
evil-looking scar on your face.
Fortune favors the beautiful.

[GASTON, spoken]
Fmaj7                           
Au contraire! My only crime was 
Em
love.
In town there was only she who was 
   Fmaj7
as beautiful as me - on the inside.
        Em
But then, tragedy struck.
She was taken hostage in a castle 
           F
filled with demonic furniture.
Dm                                
So I did what anyone would do and 
       Bb
I organized a rescue mission.
        Am                         
But how was I to know that she had 
               Fmaj7
fallen in love with her captor?
   Am                            
To me, that doesn't seem entirely 
           F                    
healthy, especially since he's a 
      E
wolf-bear thing.

A buffalo monster. In a cape.
              F
But the heart wants what it wants -

(sung)
    E                 E7     
And sometimes what it wants is 
  Am  Am/E
twisted

[VAMP]

Am Am/E
[VILA INS (Sung, underneath the 
following spoken lines)]
Twisted, Twisted...

[URSUA , spoken]
I only wanted to reclaim what was 
mine!

[SCAR, spoken]
I only wished for equal rights for 
all!

[GASTON, spoken]
I only wished to save her!

[MALEFICENT, spoken]
I only wished to be invited to the 
party

[SCAR, spoken]
I only wished to improve relations 
between the races

[CAPTAIN HOOK, spoken]
I only wished to teach the boy 
responsibility

[URSUA , spoken]
I only wished to give the people a 
voice

[CAPTAIN HOOK, spoken]
So he wouldn't end up like me

[GASTON, spoken]
I only wished to love her

[URSUA , spoken]
To help the miserable, lonely, and 
depressed

[MALEFICENT, spoken]
To be included

[SCAR, spoken]
To live in harmony!

[MALEFICENT, spoken]
For once!

[CAPTAIN HOOK, spoken]
I never knew my father!

[ALL, Frenzied]
I only wished! I only wished! I only
 wished!..... [Repeat, until -]
                      B            
I only wished! I only wished! I 
  G              F
only wished! I only wished!

[CRUEA  DE VIL, spoken]
       E
I only wished to have a coat made 
out of puppies!

[ALL]
(Cluttered speech, ad lib)

[MALEFICENT, spoken]
Just leave!

[JA'F R, spoken]
Why would you do that?

[SCAR, spoken]
That's insane!

[CAPTAIN HOOK, spoken]
Get out!

[URSUA , spoken]
It's an unfortunate situation, but 
you do have a choice.

[JA'F R]
       Am
What remains of a man when that man 
is dead and gone?
     F
Only memories and stories of his 
deeds will linger on
    G
But if a man's accomplishments 
aren't in the tale they tell
        F                          
Are the deeds that go unheralded 
  Dm
his legacy as well?

     F                E           
If a war breaks out tomorrow, 
  Am
we'll all have hell to pay
       Am                       
Why protect my reputation? I'm a 
 F               Am
dead man either way

    F                 C
How will they tell my story?
    F
How will they tell my tale?
     Bb      A    Dm      C
Will anybody even care?

    G                             
The question then is whether 'tis 
Bb
nobler in the mind
           F
To be well-liked but ineffectual, or
 moral but maligned?

     D                          
I'll never be a hero who all the 
 C
citizens adore
    G                              
But if I hide to save my life, what
 F                A
 has my life been for?
     F                A
What has my life been for?

    Am
The road ahead may twist
    F
But I will never swerve
     Dm                      
I'll give them all the unsung 
     Bb
antihero they deserve
     F
I've nothing left to lose
       E                     
So the only path to choose is 
 Am         Dm
twisted

         F
Let them twist my words, let the 
people scorn me
                              D
Who cares if no one will ever mourn 
me?
         C                    E7  
Let them bury the side of the 
                Am         Dm
story they'll never learn
                 F          Bb
Let the truth be twisted
               Am           D
Let my life be twisted
        Bb       Bb7  Em Am
I'll be twisted, it's my turn!