The Siren Song Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[C]Letters in pencil,
some of them as heavy as lead,
as dated [F]as carbon,
as [Dm]black [Fdim]as coal[Dm],[F]
but burning as [C]red.
Clues faintly stencilled: the message,
though leeched, is unbled,
[F]as secret as marble - as young,
[Dm]as old,[F]
as living, as [C]dead.
[Dm]And always [F]that [Dm]laugh
that comes as though it's from pain:
though I'm lashed to [Bb]the mast
still [G]it [Gm]hammers round my brain.
[A]

[Verse 2]
[C]Laughter in the backbone,
laughter impossibly wise,
that same laughter [G]that [F]comes
every time I flash on that look
in your [C]eyes
which whispers of a black zone
which'll mock all my cre
[G]dos [C]as lies,
where all logic is [F]done
[Gsus4]and time [F]wil[Bdim]l smash[F]
every theory I [C]devise.
And the hour- glass [Dm]is shattered
only by the magic of your touch
where nothing [Bb]really matter....
No, Noth[G]ing [Gm]matters [A]very much!

[Verse 3]
So the [A]siren [Em]song [C]runs through the [Bb]ages,
an[Gm]d it courses [Bb]through [Asus4]my veins
[A]like champagne;
and with all [Am]the sweet [F]kisses
of [Bb]addiction[F]
it's [Em]calling me to [Eb]break my bonds again.

[Interlude 1]
[D][F#dim][F#][F#dim][F#][G#m]
[E][F#sus4][F#][G#m][F#][G#m][F#][F#sus4][F#][F#sus4]
[F#][B]
[F#][F#sus4][F#][F#sus4][F#][F#sus4]
[F#][F#sus4][B][A][Em][G][Em][A][Em][G][Em][D#]
[Dm][Fm][Gsus4][F][G]

[Verse 4]
Future [C]memory exploding like shrapnel,
some splinters escape on my tongue,
some of them scar comprehen
[F]sion...
beneath the [G]scab [Fdim]they bu[F]rn,
but [Am]the wound be[C]comes numbs.
And always the [Am]song draws
[C]me forward,
rejoicing in the [Am]search and [C]the prayer,
bored with all but the [F]mad,
the [G]strange, [F]the freak, the impossible [C]dare.
Still your laugh chills my [Dm]marrow
till I embrace [Am]it on m[Dm]y knees....
Oh, when the mast becomes [A#]a flagpole,
[G]wha[Gm]t bec[A]omes of
[Em]me?[A#][Dm][A#]
What becomes, oh,
what becomes [Asus4]of me?[A]