Key: E
Introduction:
Em
So outrageous the toll
Bm
You can lose all you have
Em Bm
He refused to give in to the town that takes all
Em Bm
Survive, you must have the will
Em Bm
This movie doesn't end the way we want all the time
Then he shouts at the moon
C Am C Am
She's gone, and fear has overcome
C Am B
He was walking the mile, he was walking alone
Em
So outrageous the toll
Bm
You can lose all you have
Em Bm
He refused to give in to the town that takes all
Em Bm
Survive, you must have the will
Em Bm
This movie doesn't end the way we want all the time
Then he shouts at the moon
C Am C Am
She's gone, and fear has overcome
C Am B
He was walking the mile, he was walking alone
Dm Bb C Bb Dm Bb C Bb
Four and twenty dead-birds, they bleed upon the nest
Dm Bb C Bb Dm Bb C
There was no time for reason, they had no sign of a threat
Bb Dm F
Now it's too late, too late for me
Am Dm
This town will eventually take me
Dm F Am
Too late, too late for me
Dm
This town will win
The next verse is spoken
Dm
Through this fog they came along
F
Dark creatures singing a terrible song
Am
The rest of the bar laughed at him
Dm
Only I felt my hope grow dim
F
They found him dead the very next day
Am Dm
"No more stories from him," I heard them say
Dm
We blamed bad luck for his fate
F
Only I felt terror so great
and to singing again
Am Dm
She and he will know
Dm F Am Dm
That someday all things will end
Dm
That misty night
F
That dismal moon
Am Dm
The dead search for their kin
Dm F
While angels sing, in endless dark
Am Dm
The dead seek out sin