Control Chords by Poe

[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Don't you mess _ with a little girl's dream. _ _
_ Push her lover to grow up mean. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Surprised you to find that [Ab] I'm happy. _
You [Db] thought that you'd find me in tears. _
You thought I'd be crawling the walls like a tiny mosquito [Ebm] and trembling in fear.
[Fm] _
Well you may be king for the moment,
_ [Db]
but I am a queen, [Bb] understand? _ _
[Ab] Man, I got your palms and your bishops and [Db] castles all [Gb] inside the palm of my hand.
[Gm] _ _
[F] _ _ Why you looking [Db] the other way?
[Bb] _ _ Why you had your eyes [Ebm] closed?
[F] _ _ Why you were looking your little skull down with his [Eb] rabble?
_ [F] _
_ _ Why you were telling your [Fm] soul?
_ _ Why you were tearing a hole in _ _ _ _ _ _ me?
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ Now I have taken [Bb] control. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ Now I have taken [Bb] control. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ Now I have taken _
[Bb] control.
Now I have taken control. _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ Now my limits are beginning to feel [Ab] good.
[Eb] [Db] Watching you squirm in [Bb] your shoes. _
You [Fm] smother me with sweat on your brow and I growl in your belly, you're scared to [Bb] let through. _
[Fm] You thought you could keep me from loving. _
You thought you could beat all [C] my soul. _
But [Fm] while you were busy destroying my life, what was happening has become [C] whole. _ _
[F] _ _ Why you [Db] looking the other [Bb] way?
_ Why you had your eyes closed?
[F] _ _ Why you were [Fm] looking your little [Bb] skull down with his rabble? _
[F] _ _ Why you were [Ab] telling your soul?
[Bb] _ _ Why you were tearing [Fm] a hole in me? _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ Now I _ have taken _
[Bb] control. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ Now I have taken [Bb] control. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ Now I have taken [Bb] control. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
This _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] is [Db] how we feel. _ _ _
[Fm] We breathe in the summer air. _
[Db] Feel the sand on our feet.
The sand between my [Fm] toes and love inside my [Db] ear.
_ _ All those things _
[Eb] you taught me to fear. _ _
[Bb] Got them in my garden now and [Eb] you're not welcome [Bbm] here. _ _
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Become _ [F] _ _ a [Bbm] little [Fm] bit cooler inside _ [Ab] when I look [G] at [Db] you.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Fm] Let a little bit of the [Db] _ _ _ darkness to _ _
[F] keep from coming [Bb] [Ab] down on _ every saint and [Bb] fool. _
[F] _ _ Why [D] you looking the other [Bb] way?
_ _ Why you had your eyes closed?
[Fm] _ _ Why you were looking your little _ _ [Bb] _ skull _ down with his rabble?
[F] _ _ Why [Fm] you _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ were telling your _
[Fm] _ soul?
Why you were tearing _ _ _ a hole in me?
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ Now I have taken _
[Bb] control. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ Now I have taken _
[Bb] control. _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] Now _ I _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ have taken control. _
[F] Now I have taken _ [Fm] control. _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] Now you rest with me. _ _
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[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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This cannot be all that there [F] is to life because in our confrontation _ _ [Fm] with an enormous and cold [F] universe,
[Fm] _ _
there is something comical _ to the idea that we can really enforce our will on _ _ humanity. _ _ _
_ _ [F] Power.
_ _ Power.
_ _ _ _ _ Power. _
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ Power. _
_ _ _ _ _ Power. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Ab] Power.
Power.
_ _ At _
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
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[Gb] _ _ the end of it all lies of course the final [Dbm] _ phenomenon of _ [Abm]
deterioration, _ [E] entry. _ _ _
[Gbm] Which is a predictable _ [Gb] deterioration with a creative energy. _ _ _ _ _ _