1. IT'S USELESS TO STRUGGLE

     Em:022000  B:224442       D:x00232   C:032010
It's useless to struggle  It's useless to pray
Nothing is beautiful or good in any way
You left me black and blue and lying on the floor
I could call the doctor but I don't care anymore
It's useless to struggle  It's useless to sing





2. CITY OF THE DAMNED

C:032010         F:133211    G:320033 C
   Kick off your shoes, come join the show
Get the blues and let yourself go
Take off that happy smile, madame

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Come along with us to the city of the damned

You'll be doing a lot more crying 
where the sun doesn't dare to shine
Don't tell your friends we're on the lam
Ride the magic hearse to the city of the damned

Leave behind everything you own
We're going off to the great unknown
Leave behind all your dreams and plans
Won't be needing them in the city of the damned
Won't you come along to the city of the damned





3. THE ABANDONED CASTLE OF MY SOUL

Gm:355333            Eb:668886  D:557775 Eb F:8-8-10-10-10-8 Eb
   I was young and impression - able 

My morality questionable

       Cm:335543   Bb:113331   Cm       Bb   D  Eb  F  Eb
When I happened to fall into a howling abyss
and I haven't hit the bottom yet

Gm                              Cm
(C): The abandoned castle of my soul
The abandoned castle of my soul

Bb            Gm        Eb             Cm
   I was only seventeen when I lost control

Eb                  D            Gm   Eb   Gm   Eb
   in the abandoned castle of my soul. 

I reached out for anything white with unspeakable appetites
Found myself in the lair of a killing despair
Now it's ten years on and I'm still there (C) (C)

(ends with this chord: xx4332)





4. YOUR LONG WHITE FINGERS

Em:022000           D:x00232 C:032010        Em 
   Your long white fingers     slither and glide
No gloves will hold them  They cannot hide

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   They frighten children and they make dogs howl
They glow in darkness and fill the faithful with doubt

Your long white fingers  Passion and grace
Gesticulations from some dark place
They look unnatural, faintly obscene
They loom large in all the strangest of dreams





5. EVER FALLS THE TWILIGHT

     G:320033      Em:022000    D:x00232
It's possible that even we were younger 
our pockets full and never knowing hunger

C:032010          G            D
Charmed like sleepwalkers on a precipice
dreaming as one inside our chrysalis

G                          Em
(C): Out the summer windows  in through winter doors
ever falls the twilight on our jagged shores.

Where once was land of rare and rolling mountains
The sea came in through all our golden fountains
The truth is as sudden as a hailstorm 
and guides weary sailors to the maelstrom  (C) (C) (C) (C)





6. THE TINY GOAT

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The tiny goat wanted a birthday par   -   ty 

    Bbm                         Fm
and sent out invitations to its friends

    A:002220                         C:032010
but when the day came none of them remembered

   G:320033                          D:x00232
so it put out its eyes with fountain pens

             Eb:365343     F:133211
The world is cruel and the moon remote

Gm:355333                         Eb   F  Bb:113331
Suicide was not an option for the ti - ny goat

The tiny goat was very, very ugly
and like all ugly things it fell in love
When twenty years of waiting turned to nothing
It swallowed lye and lay down on the stove
When the world bites, there's no antidote
Who would want to spend forever with a tiny goat?
The world's a leech crawling down one's throat
One would rather be a tick than be a tiny goat





7. IN A CAVE

            Em:022000 G:320033 D:x00232 A:003330
We're in a cave 
at the end 
of the world
cooking and eating our friends.