The Key Chords by Emilie Autumn
Tempo:
116.75 bpm
Chords used:
A#m
A
F#m
Gm
C#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[D] I hear her footsteps running towards me down the hall, [C#] and by the lantern light I see her body [E] fall.
She reaches out to me, the ward key [F] in her hand.
She speaks to me in noises I don't understand.
[Gm] The key that taunted me, the key that drove me mad, [F#m] the key that murdered any freedom
I once had, [Am] is offered to me now.
Can this be but [F#] a dream?
My trance is broken by this woman's dying [G] scream.
The key now in my hand, from quarantine I [F#m] race, and when I reach the landing, every
ghostly [A] face is waiting for me there, commanding me to [A#m] run.
The walls are lifting, lockdown's already begun.
The [G] staircase shatters as my fate I fly to [F#m] meet.
The wood is splintering beneath my stalking [A] feet.
At last I'm past the gate, at last I'm at the [A#m] cell that's kept me from the sun and hidden
me in [Gm] hell.
Locked us in is now what sets us [C#] free.
The inmates have emerged and now they look to [A] me to lead them to the light, to lead them
to the door.
[A#m] But as we flee I trip and fall down to the floor.
Now [G] as I hit the ground, as painfully I [C#] land, the key for which I'd waited years shoots
from my [A] hand.
And quick as lightning strikes, the doctor's heavy [A#m] shoe comes down upon the key, concealing
it from view.
[Gm] His eyes are burning red with madness.
This is [F#] when he picks it up and turns to lock us in again.
[A] I leap upon him, for I've nothing left to [A#m] lose.
He overpowers me and asks the girls to [D] choose.
He runs his blade across my throat as if to [F#m] say that he will take my life if they don't walk away.
[A] Retreat.
They do it once, without a second [A#m] thought.
They only know that we were free and now we're [Gm] not.
And then I feel my darling Annie's last [F#m] glee from all those years ago still tied above my [A] knee.
It glows against my skin, doesn't cause me [A#m] pain.
What happens next I cannot possibly explain.
It [G] pulls me from the floor, it pulls me towards the [F#m] gate.
It fits into the lock and every last [E] inmate is breathless as the bars swing open with a [A#m] creak.
And no one's seen to move and no one's heard to [Gm] speak.
And all at once the clock from fifty floors [C#] below is loudly striking four and [F#m] suddenly
I [A] know I must be done.
There can be no one left [A#] alive.
The doctors all [A#m] must die if we are [E] to survive.
It's time to show our strength.
It's time that we [F#m] unite.
It's time to change the game.
It's time we learn to [A] fight.
It's time this house is mine.
We take it [A#m] back.
It's time for bloody war.
It's time for the attack.
[A#] [G#]
She reaches out to me, the ward key [F] in her hand.
She speaks to me in noises I don't understand.
[Gm] The key that taunted me, the key that drove me mad, [F#m] the key that murdered any freedom
I once had, [Am] is offered to me now.
Can this be but [F#] a dream?
My trance is broken by this woman's dying [G] scream.
The key now in my hand, from quarantine I [F#m] race, and when I reach the landing, every
ghostly [A] face is waiting for me there, commanding me to [A#m] run.
The walls are lifting, lockdown's already begun.
The [G] staircase shatters as my fate I fly to [F#m] meet.
The wood is splintering beneath my stalking [A] feet.
At last I'm past the gate, at last I'm at the [A#m] cell that's kept me from the sun and hidden
me in [Gm] hell.
Locked us in is now what sets us [C#] free.
The inmates have emerged and now they look to [A] me to lead them to the light, to lead them
to the door.
[A#m] But as we flee I trip and fall down to the floor.
Now [G] as I hit the ground, as painfully I [C#] land, the key for which I'd waited years shoots
from my [A] hand.
And quick as lightning strikes, the doctor's heavy [A#m] shoe comes down upon the key, concealing
it from view.
[Gm] His eyes are burning red with madness.
This is [F#] when he picks it up and turns to lock us in again.
[A] I leap upon him, for I've nothing left to [A#m] lose.
He overpowers me and asks the girls to [D] choose.
He runs his blade across my throat as if to [F#m] say that he will take my life if they don't walk away.
[A] Retreat.
They do it once, without a second [A#m] thought.
They only know that we were free and now we're [Gm] not.
And then I feel my darling Annie's last [F#m] glee from all those years ago still tied above my [A] knee.
It glows against my skin, doesn't cause me [A#m] pain.
What happens next I cannot possibly explain.
It [G] pulls me from the floor, it pulls me towards the [F#m] gate.
It fits into the lock and every last [E] inmate is breathless as the bars swing open with a [A#m] creak.
And no one's seen to move and no one's heard to [Gm] speak.
And all at once the clock from fifty floors [C#] below is loudly striking four and [F#m] suddenly
I [A] know I must be done.
There can be no one left [A#] alive.
The doctors all [A#m] must die if we are [E] to survive.
It's time to show our strength.
It's time that we [F#m] unite.
It's time to change the game.
It's time we learn to [A] fight.
It's time this house is mine.
We take it [A#m] back.
It's time for bloody war.
It's time for the attack.
[A#] [G#]
Key:
A#m
A
F#m
Gm
C#
A#m
A
F#m
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] I hear her footsteps running towards me down the hall, [C#] and by the lantern light I see her body [E] fall.
She reaches out to me, the ward key [F] in her hand.
She speaks to me in noises I don't understand.
[Gm] The key that taunted me, the key that drove me mad, [F#m] the key that murdered any freedom
I once had, [Am] is offered to me now.
Can this be but [F#] a dream?
My trance is broken by this woman's dying [G] scream.
The key now in my hand, from quarantine I [F#m] race, and when I reach the landing, every
ghostly [A] face is waiting for me there, commanding me to [A#m] run.
The walls are lifting, lockdown's already begun.
The [G] staircase shatters as my fate I fly to [F#m] meet.
The wood is splintering beneath my stalking [A] feet.
At last I'm past the gate, at last I'm at the [A#m] cell that's kept me from the sun and hidden
me in [Gm] hell.
Locked us in is now what sets us [C#] free.
The inmates have emerged and now they look to [A] me to lead them to the light, to lead them
to the door.
[A#m] But as we flee I trip and fall down to the floor.
Now [G] as I hit the ground, as painfully I [C#] land, the key for which I'd waited years shoots
from my [A] hand.
And quick as lightning strikes, the doctor's heavy [A#m] shoe comes down upon the key, concealing
it from view.
[Gm] His eyes are burning red with madness.
This is [F#] when he picks it up and turns to lock us in again.
[A] I leap upon him, for I've nothing left to [A#m] lose.
He overpowers me and asks the girls to [D] choose.
He runs his blade across my throat as if to [F#m] say that he will take my life if they don't walk away.
[A] Retreat.
They do it once, without a second [A#m] thought.
They only know that we were free and now we're [Gm] not.
And then I feel my darling Annie's last [F#m] glee from all those years ago still tied above my [A] knee.
It glows against my skin, doesn't cause me [A#m] pain.
What happens next I cannot possibly explain.
It [G] pulls me from the floor, it pulls me towards the [F#m] gate.
It fits into the lock and every last [E] inmate is breathless as the bars swing open with a [A#m] creak.
And no one's seen to move and no one's heard to [Gm] speak.
And all at once the clock from fifty floors [C#] below is loudly striking four and [F#m] suddenly
I [A] know I must be done.
There can be no one left [A#] alive.
The doctors all [A#m] must die if we are [E] to survive.
It's time to show our strength.
It's time that we [F#m] unite.
It's time to change the game.
It's time we learn to [A] fight.
It's time this house is mine.
We take it [A#m] back.
It's time for bloody war.
It's time for the attack.
[A#] _ [G#] _ _
_ _ _ [D] I hear her footsteps running towards me down the hall, [C#] and by the lantern light I see her body [E] fall.
She reaches out to me, the ward key [F] in her hand.
She speaks to me in noises I don't understand.
[Gm] The key that taunted me, the key that drove me mad, [F#m] the key that murdered any freedom
I once had, [Am] is offered to me now.
Can this be but [F#] a dream?
My trance is broken by this woman's dying [G] scream.
The key now in my hand, from quarantine I [F#m] race, and when I reach the landing, every
ghostly [A] face is waiting for me there, commanding me to [A#m] run.
The walls are lifting, lockdown's already begun.
The [G] staircase shatters as my fate I fly to [F#m] meet.
The wood is splintering beneath my stalking [A] feet.
At last I'm past the gate, at last I'm at the [A#m] cell that's kept me from the sun and hidden
me in [Gm] hell.
Locked us in is now what sets us [C#] free.
The inmates have emerged and now they look to [A] me to lead them to the light, to lead them
to the door.
[A#m] But as we flee I trip and fall down to the floor.
Now [G] as I hit the ground, as painfully I [C#] land, the key for which I'd waited years shoots
from my [A] hand.
And quick as lightning strikes, the doctor's heavy [A#m] shoe comes down upon the key, concealing
it from view.
[Gm] His eyes are burning red with madness.
This is [F#] when he picks it up and turns to lock us in again.
[A] I leap upon him, for I've nothing left to [A#m] lose.
He overpowers me and asks the girls to [D] choose.
He runs his blade across my throat as if to [F#m] say that he will take my life if they don't walk away.
[A] Retreat.
They do it once, without a second [A#m] thought.
They only know that we were free and now we're [Gm] not.
And then I feel my darling Annie's last [F#m] glee from all those years ago still tied above my [A] knee.
It glows against my skin, doesn't cause me [A#m] pain.
What happens next I cannot possibly explain.
It [G] pulls me from the floor, it pulls me towards the [F#m] gate.
It fits into the lock and every last [E] inmate is breathless as the bars swing open with a [A#m] creak.
And no one's seen to move and no one's heard to [Gm] speak.
And all at once the clock from fifty floors [C#] below is loudly striking four and [F#m] suddenly
I [A] know I must be done.
There can be no one left [A#] alive.
The doctors all [A#m] must die if we are [E] to survive.
It's time to show our strength.
It's time that we [F#m] unite.
It's time to change the game.
It's time we learn to [A] fight.
It's time this house is mine.
We take it [A#m] back.
It's time for bloody war.
It's time for the attack.
[A#] _ [G#] _ _
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