Thick as Thieves Chords by Natalie Merchant

[C] _ _ _ _ Remember how it all [Ab] began, the outpouring, the fall of men, the [Eb] price we paid
So [D] the people say
_ [C] Down the path of shame it led [Ab] us, dare to bite the hand that fed us
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Fairytale, the moral [Bb] end, wheel of fortune never [C] turns again
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ Never turns again
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_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ The [C] worst of it has come and [Ab] gone in the chaos of millennium
[Eb] In the falling out of [Bb] the dim [D] stay crowd
[C] Their last retreat is [Bbm] moving [Ab] slow, they burn their bridges as they go
The [Eb] heretics beautify, [Bb] _
teach the harlot's child [C] to smile _ _ _
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[Cm] _ _ _ Wracked [C] again by [Ab] indecision, should we make that small incision
[Eb] Testify to the [Bb] bleeding heart inside
[Cm] We cut, we scratched, we ran, we slashed [Ab] and when he opened up at last
Found [Eb] a cul-de-sac, deep and black, [Bb] _ _ _ [C] smoke and ash
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ Deep and black, _ [Ab] smoke and ash
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_ _ The wicked king of _ [Cm]
[Ab] parenthese, kissing all his enemies
[Eb] On the seventh face, _ [Bb] on the seventh week
_ [Cm] Tyrants' forces soften now, [Ab] but just for one forgiving help
[Eb] Before the rise of [Bb] his
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tonight, I've come to [Ab] know the way we are, the way we'll [Eb] go
And to measure this, the [Dm] width of the wide abyss
I [Cm] come to you in restless sleep, [Ab] where all your dreams turn bittersweet
_ [Eb] Put in doubt philosophies, [Bb] take low holy trinities
[Cm] The crooked raft that leaves the [Ab] shore, fairies, drunken souls [Eb] abhor
Pilgrims march to [Bb] compastello, visions of their saint in yellow
[C] Follow deep in _ [Ab] transglostery, the catatonic dance
[Eb] No, no future, than the [Bb] past, blind, warm, ecstatic, [G] [Gm] safe and alive
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