The Scaffold

(início)

Intro: D  D  F#/C#  F#/C#  C#  C#
F#                            Ab
In Orient where wise I was to please the way I live
     Abm7                                              F#
Come give the beggar chance at hand his life is on his lip
                                   Ab
Three score a thousand times where once in Amazon
      Abm7                                       F#
Where El Dorado holds the key no keeper holds my hand
Refrão:
  Bbm7              Ebm                          F#/C#
Unchain the gate of solitude, the ruler says you run
                  Ab/C           D7               F#/C#              C#
Run hard unto the scaffold high  -  your chance to  -  jump the gun
F#                                    C#7                F#
Oh, how high the scaffold grows - the plant life of your widow
                                             C#7                 F#
In black lace curtains brought you near from out the plate glass window
F#                                    C#7                F#
Oh, how high the scaffold grows - the plant life of your widow
                                             C#7                 F#
In black lace curtains brought you near from out the plate glass window
F#                                 Ab
The Minotaur with bloody hands is  -  enraged by the sun
Abm7                                         F#
Caged he by the corpses brought forth by the dawn
                            Ab
In Orient is as I told the buckshee hangman swears
    Abm7                                          F#
For open crypts to silence nylon knots to sway by prayer
(Refrão)
F#                            Ab
In Orient where wise I was to please the way I live
     Abm7                                                F#
Come give the beggar chance at hand - his life is on his lip