Tom: A
Introdução:
Am F
The pleasure of the pain
E Am
Consumes all I feel
D/B
It steals
G
But what it leaves
E Am
Is a monster of me
Bm
verse
C
In the back alley cabaret
F
Where the girls and the boys are claimed
A G
We'll find solace in the sticky floors
F#
And the body heat of those aflame
C
Is it wrong of me to feel so much
A
In this climate of restraint
F Bm
With every bottle drained a disapproving glance
G Am
And god, I feel so ashamed
A F
But the pleasure of the pain
E Am
Consumes all I feel
D
It steals
G
But what it leaves
Fm Am
Is a monster of me
Bm
verse
C
So I pack my regrets in chains
A Bm
Head to where the ghosts congregate
Am G
Under black and tragic empty skies
D
They preach their madness could the dead tell lies?
C
Cos I'm desperate to believe
A Dm
I'll take anything they give
Bm
I'm like a rabid dog, with suffocating rage
Am
But these cadavers say that they can stave
A F
But the pleasure of the pain
E Am
Consumes all I feel
D
It steals
G
But what it leaves
Fm Am
Is a monster of me
bridge
C E
And from her lips she sung
Am
A melody to die for
G E
And from my chest she drew
C
A beating heart and stabbed it
D
With the tweezers from her dresser
C D
The devotion you give
Am Dm
Down on aching knees
C G
Using your throat as a sieve
A Am
While the ghosts of your rejections
G D
Haunt the places you've forgotten
G
And they'll say it was worth it
B
Just for
E F
The pleasure of the pain
E Am
Consumes all I feel
C
It steals
G
But what it leaves
C Am
Is a monster of me
F
No matter where I run
A Am
I can smell you on my skin
D
Distinct
D
But when I need your taste
G A C
My body doesn't slake the thirst.