Artist : Current 93
Title : The Frolic
The most important part of the main melody is:
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Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 x2
Em Cmaj7 G
I take your hand
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
We walk towards where the roses once grew
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
I lie back in the grass
Em Cmaj7 G
And dream of how it once was
Am Cmaj7
The rubbishstrewn streets
Am Cmaj7
Riperising smell of gutters and rain
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
The children abandoned
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 Em
Mother recalls child in pool
Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 Em
What is that that lies?
Cmaj7 G
Deadchilddead
Am Cmaj7 Am
I have such nightmares
Cmaj7
And you're all in all of them
Em Cmaj7 G
It's worse than you or i can ever know
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
On the edge of the clouds we crouch
Em Cmaj7 G Am
We smile and spit
Am Cmaj7 Am Cmaj7
The pool of saliva coruscates below our feet
Em Cmaj7 G
It shifts
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
Children with knives begin to rise from it
Em Cmaj7 G
They laugh and blow kisses at the moon
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G x3
Cmaj7
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
We think it's the rain
Em Cmaj7 G Am
I see a bird move onto the table in my garden
Cmaj7 Am Cmaj7 Cmaj7
Its beak scoops up the seeds
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
The green of the grass and the blue of the sky
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
Are immense and terrifying
Em Cmaj7
Everything seems so close
G Cmaj7
So very very close
Em Cmaj7
Should a storm come
G Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7
Should a storm break and halo all around us
G Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G
As some savage and blind god
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G
Jerking his hands out to us
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G
The birds drop all around us
Am Cmaj7 x2
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7
I walk into the altar room
G Cmaj7 Em
All the buddhas are smashed there
Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 Em
Avalokitesvara's hundred faces lie shattered
Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
I have done this
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
I walk to the makeshift red brick altar a hundred years ago
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
there is a small brass image there
Em
I have built this
Cmaj7 G
The red and black ants mill around
Cmaj7 Em
Unknown journeys
Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 Em
I take my lighter and torch them
Cmaj7 G Am
I take my lighter and torch them
Cmaj7 Am
I weep
Cmaj7
I weep
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7
The ants scatter
G Cmaj7
Or writhe
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
I take my lighter and torch them torch them
Em Cmaj7
I have done this
G Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7
I am surrounded by butterflies
G Cmaj7
The child's legs
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
Lay smashed
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
Please pray for him she says to me
Em
Too late
Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 Em
Alas oh so
Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G
Too late
Am Cmaj7 x2
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7
I see the twinkling stars
G Cmaj7
I drop a photograph
Em Cmaj7 G
I bend to pick it up
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
My heart leaps as i see your face
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
Stare up at me from the paper
Em Cmaj7 G
As if still alive on this earth
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
When i return my eyes to the stars
Em
They gathered
Cmaj7 G
They pucker
Cmaj7 Em
And are blind
Cmaj7 G
And are blind
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G x3
Am Cmaj7 Am
Cmaj7
So very lost are we
Em Cmaj7
Oh what have i
G Cmaj7
Become
Em Cmaj7
I have become
Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
That i hate
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 Em
I have become that i shall say no
Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 Em
The bird is dead now
Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
Alas
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
A voice whispers to me
Em Cmaj7 G Cmaj7 Em
And says nothing nothing
Cmaj7 G Am
There is nothing
Am Cmaj7 Am
I look to my right
Cmaj7
And see her face again
Em Cmaj7 G
And again the world disappears
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G
And all fall down
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G
All fall down
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G
All fall down
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G
I all fall down
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G
All fall down
Cmaj7 Em Cmaj7 G
I all fall down
(No Chords)
We all fall down
We all fall down
