Chords for Still Life (2005 Digital Remaster)

_ _ _ _ _ _ [A#] _ _
_ [A] _ _ Citadel _ reverberates to [B] a _ _ thousand [E] _
_ voices
[B] Now done, _ _ _ [F#] what have we [A] become? _ _
_ What have we [E] chosen [G#] to be?
_ _ Now all [A] _ _
_ history _ is [D#m] _
reduced to [E] the syllables of our name
_ Nothing can [F#] ever be [A] the same
_ _ Now the immortals [G#m] are here _ _ _
At the [C#m] time _ [C#] it seemed [C#m] a reasonable _ _ _ course
[B] To harness _ all the force _ of [A] life without the threat of death
But soon we found [Cm] that boredom and inertia [G#] are not negatives
But all the law [C#m] we know
_ And [B] dead are will and words like [A] survival _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G#] _ Arrival _ [C#m] _
[A#] at _ [A] _ _ _ immunity _
From [C#m] [B] all age, all [E] fear _ and all end
Why _ do I [A] pretend _ our essence _ is [G#] distilled
And all _ [A] familiar _ _ _ taste is [B] now drained
[E] And no purity is [B]
maintained
_ _ _ It leaves [C#m] us sterile
_ _ Living through [C#] the millions _ of [C#m] _
years
[B] A laugh as close as any tear
_ _ [A] Living, if you claim that all that [F#] entails is [Cm] breathing
Eating, [G#] defecating, screwing, drinking, spewing, sleeping
[B] Sinking ever down and down and ultimately passing away
[A] Which _ _ no longer has [Bm] any meaning
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ Take away the _ [B] _ _
_ [G#m] idea [C#m] that greatness [B] around a make _ [G#]-believe
[C#] I _ [B] _ _
_ _ [C#] know you're ultimately bored by [B] endless [C#] ecstasy
So ring up with your help to [B] be engaged
[C#] To marry the girl who will make you forever
It's crazy and stately, that simply is not _
_ _ [E] _ [F#m] _ fair
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_ _ [B] _ [G#] What _ _ [C#]
is this [A] dullness that blunters our pains
Such [F#] that my eyes [E] never close up [B] feeling it there _ _
What [A] adjectives there _ _
Demands an end [G#] to all things _
_ _ [A] _ infinity _ _ _
If we [B] have gain, how [E] do we now meet [B] the cost
What have we bargained, what have [A] we loved
What have we relinquished, never knowing it [G#m] was there _ _ _
_ [C#m] What _ _ _ [A#] terms [C#m] now [C#] of holding on to [C#m] life _
_ _ [B] Defying death and time
_ [A] Everything we had is gone
Everything [G#] we labored for and favored more than us
These things reveal the [C#m] hollow ring
Of [B] false hope and false [A] statements _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#m] But _ _ _ now _ the [D#] nuptial bed is made _ _
[B] The dowry has been _ paid
_ [A] The toothless haggard features _ of eternity
Now [C#m] welcome me [A] between the sheets
To [C#m] couple with her withered [F#m] body _ _
My [Am] _ wife _ _ _ _
_ _ [G#] Hers forever
[G#m] _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ [E] Hers [G] forever
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[C#] Hers [D#] forever _ _ _ _ _
_ In [C#m] _ still life
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