Still Life Chords

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[Verse 1]
[E]Citadel [Am]re v[B]er b[G]er[F]ates to a[C]
[G]thousand voi[C]ces, now[G]
Dumb:
What have we [F]become?
What have we chosen to [E]be?
[A]Now, [B]all [F]history is re[G]duced
to the syl[C]lables of
Our [G]name-
Nothing can ever [F]be the same:
Now the Immortals are [Em]here.
At [Am]the time it seemed a reas
[G]onabl[Am]e course
[G]To harness all the force
[F]Of life without the threat of death,
But soon we found [E]that boredom
and inertia
Are not negative, but all the law we [Am]know,
And dead [G]are will and words like survival.
[F]

[Verse 2]
[E]Arrival [Am]at i[B]m mu[F]nity from al[Am]l ag[G]e,
all [C]fear and
All [G]end
Why do I [F]pretend?
Our essence is distilled
[E]And all[Am] fa m[E]il[F]iar taste is now dra[G]ined,
And though [C]purity is [G]maintained
It leaves us [Am]sterile,
Living through the mil[E]lions of [Am]years,
A [G]laugh as close as any [F]tear;
Living, if you claim that all
That entails is [E]breathing,
eating, defecating,
Screwing, drinking,
Spewing, sleeping,
[G]sinking ever down and down
And ultimately passing away [F]time
Which no longer has any meaning.
[G][Am][G]

[Interlude 1]
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[Am][G][Am][G]

[Verse 3]
[Am]Take away
the threat [G]of death and [Am]all you're
Left with is a round [G]of make- believe.
[Am]Marshal every sullen [G]breath
and [Am]though you're
Ultimately bored by endless [G]ec stasy
[Am]It's still the ring by which you hope to be
En[G]gaged
[Am]To marry the girl who will
give you forever-
It's crazy, and plainly
That simply is [G]not[F][Dm][Am][A][Am][F][G]
[Am][A][Am][G][Am][A][Am][G]
[A]eno[G]ugh.
[Am][A][Am]

[Interlude 2]
[G][A]
[G][Am][A][G][A][Am]
[G][A][Am][G][Am][G][Am][A][Am][G]
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[Verse 4]
[E]What is [Am]the [E]dullest and
[F]bluntest of pains,
Such that my [G]eyes never [C]close
without feeling [G]it
There?
What abject des[F]pair demands an end
[E]To all things [Am]of i[B]n fi[F]nity?
If we have [G]gained,
how do we [C]now meet the
[G]Cost?
What have we bargained,
and what have we
[F]Lost?
What have we relinquished,
never even knowing it
Was [E]there?[Em]

[Verse 5]
[Am]What thoughts now of
holding fast the line,
De[G]fying death and time?
[F]Everything we had is gone,
Everything we [E]laboured for
and favoured more
Than earthly things reveals the hollow [Am]ring
Of false [G]hope and [F]false [Am]deliverance.

[Verse 6]
[Am]But now the nuptial bed is made,
The [G]dowry has been paid:
[F]The toothless,
haggard features of eternity
Now welcome [F]me between
the sheets
To couple with her withered
[F]body - my [F]wife.
Hers forever,
Hers forever,
Hers forever
[B]In [C]still [Am]life.

[Outro 1]
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