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Key: F

Introduction:

difficulty
intermediate |||||

                         Eb                                   Bbm7 
I am a unicorn, you a virginal maid,
                 Cm                           Ebm 
and I come in laughing play
 Ebm  Fm  Ebm    Dbm  Eb 
but, maybe, to be saved.
                 Eb                           Bbm7 
I am a character in the play.
                         Cm                           Ebm 
The words I slur are pre-ordained,
 Ebm  Fm   Ebm    Dbm  Eb 
we know them anyway.
 Db                                                                   B 
Don't change your mind, don't be a fickle friend 
 Db                                                                   Ebm 
don't change your mind, don't pretend
         Dbm             Cm 
to something false.
 Eb                                                   Bbm7 
You are Pandora, I am the World.
                                         Cm                                           Ebm 
If you cross the stream, you never can return 
 Ebm         Fm       Ebm    Dbm     Eb 
If you stay, you'll surely burn.
(instrumental verse)

 Db                                                                           B 
Don't change your mind, don't come all orchid eyes 
 Db                                                                   Ebm         Dbm           Cm 
don't change your mind, don't disguise the fear you feel,
 Cm   Bbm           Eb 
it's real,           and you must
                         Bbm7 
guard your castle well,
                                 Eb                                           Bbm7 
for I am the lone wolf and the boar at bay.
                                 Cm                                                   Ebm 
Grant me your Pax, you know we only live today,
 Ebm  Dbm    Cm     Bbm 
and on, and on, and into
 Eb   Bbm7 
        "So long"
                         Eb 
It takes so long to drown,
                                                         Bbm7                                   Cm 
it takes so very long to choke on the taste you'd spurned.
                                                                                   Ebm 
If you cross the stream you never can return,
 Ebm    Fm   Ebm            Dbm  Eb 
If you stay you'll surely burn.
 Ebm    Fm   Ebm            Dbm  Eb 
If you stay you'll surely burn.
 Ebm    Fm   Ebm            Dbm  Cm 
If you stay you'll surely burn.