TITLE: River
ARTIST: Opeth
ALBUM: Pale Communion (2014)
(twangy arpeggio in 4/4 time signature)
D C G G
D C G G
Show me a sign
Of troubles in your heart
Spare me your lies
And tell me that you're mine
F F C G
And our bodies float on the river
N/C F F C G (strum once)
To the oceans of demi--------------se
(finger picking/arpeggio continues)
D C G G
D C G G
Made me your slave
To the secrets of your silence
But you told to me stay
And you told me you're mine
F C G
And our bodies float on the river
F C G (strum once)
To the oceans of demise
(solo)
D C G G (x4)
F C G G (x4)
(keyboard only, time signature shift to 3/4)
Gm Dm
In light of all things to come
A#m Dm
Why do you despair?
Gm Dm
Because when you have no one
A#m Am A
No one would care
E
So don’t care
(arpeggio, first 3 strings for each chord below)
Am E Dm Am (x2)
Dm Am (x4)
(strum once)
Gm Dm
And all things will come undone
A#m Dm
There is nothing to share
Gm Dm
I'll be waiting for no one
A#m Am A
And no one is there
E
To care
(freaked-out interlude)
(strum once)
C5 B5
Can’t see
C5 B5
Can’t feel
C5 B5
You run
C5 B5
I long
C5 B5
I wait
C5 B5
He comes
C5 B5
Takes you
C5 B5
Away
I can't see, can't feel, you run, I long, I wait, he comes to you…
(begin strumming 3/4 time signature)
B5
In the embers of summer
G5 F#5 E5 D5
All things must die
B5
There's a passage of fire ahead
G5 F#5 E5 D5 B5
Fire on the other side
B5
There comes a time when the river runs dry
B5
Winter comes and we sacrifice
B5
Our lives
