[Intro ]Dm  C  Bb  C 

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At night, this mindless army 
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Ranks unbroken by dissent 
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Is moved into action 
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And their pace does not relent 

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In step, with great precision 
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These dancers of the night 
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Advance against the darkness - 
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How implacable their might! 
       Bb 
Eyes undulled by moon 
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Their arms and legs akimbo 
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They walk and live, hoping soon 
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To surface from this limbo 

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Their minds, anticipating the dawn of the day 
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Shall never know what's waiting mere insight away 
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Too far, too soon 

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Senses dimmed in semi-sentience 
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Only wheeling through this plane 
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Only seeing fragmented images 
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Prematurely curtailed by the brain 

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But breathing, living, knowing 
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In some measure at least 
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The soul which roots the matter 
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Of both Beauty and the Beast 

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From what tooth or claw does murder spring 
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From what flesh and blood does passion? 
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Both cut through the air with the pendulum's swing 
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In deadly but delicate fashion 

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And every range of feeling is there in the dream 
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And every logic's reeling in the force of the scream 
    F      Dm 
The senses sting 

Am                  G                     F 
And though I may be dreaming and reality stalls 
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I only know the meaning of sight and that's all 
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And that's nothing 

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The columns of the ni-ght ad-van-ce 
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Infectiously, their cryp-tic dan-ce 
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Gathers converts to the fold - 
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In time the whole raw world will pace these same steps 
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On into the same bitter end 

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( Eb  Eb7  Ab  Fm  G ) 
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Somnolent muster now the dancing dead 
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Forsake the shelter of their secure beds 
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Awaken to a slumber whose depths they dread 
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As if the ground they tread would give way 
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Beneath the solemn weight of their conception 

C 
I'd search the hidden corners 
        E 
Of all this world 
       A                   D 
Make reason of the sensory whorl 
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If I only had time 
                      B  Am 
But soon the dream is en-ded 

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Tonight, before you lay down 
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To the sweetness of your sleep 
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Do you question your surrender 
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To the drop from Lover's Leap 
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Or does the anaesthetic darkness 
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Take hold on its very own? 
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Does your body rise in service 
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With not one dissenting groan? 

A            Bb 
These waking dreams of life and death 
       A 
In the mirror 
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Are twisted and buckled 
A                 Bb 
Lashes flicker, a catch of breath 
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Skin whitening at the knuckles 

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The army of sleepwalkers shake their limbs and are loose 
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And though I am a talker, I can phrase no excuse 
F           D 
Not to rise again 

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In the Chorus of the night-time I belong 
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And I, like you, must dance to that moonlight song 
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And in the end I too must pay the cost of this life 
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If all is lost none is known 
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And how could we lose what we've never owned? 

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Oh, I'd search out every knowledge that I could find 
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Unravel all the mysteries of mind 
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If I only had time 
              Am 
If I only had time 
                    Bm   A 
But soon my time is ended