Changing Of The Guards Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Em]Sixteen years
Sixteen [G]banners [D]united
over [Em]the field
Where the [C]good shepherd [D]grieves
Desperate [Em]men,
desperate [G]women di[D]vided
Spreading their [Em]wings 'neath
[C]falling [D]leaves.

[Verse 2]
Fortune [Em]calls
I stepped [G]forth from [D]the shadows
to the market[Em]place
Merchants and [C]thieves, hungry for [D]power,
my last deal [Em]gone down
She's smelling [G]sweet like
[D]the meadows where she was [Em]born
On midsummer's [C]eve [D]near the [G]tower.
The cold- [Em]blooded moon

[Verse 3]
The captain [G]waits above
the celebra[D]tion
Sending his [Em]thoughts to [C]a
beloved [D]maid
Whose ebony [Em]face is bey
[G]ond communic[D]ation
The captain is [Em]down but still believing that his
[C]love will [D]be repaid.

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 4]
They shaved her [Em]head
She was [G]torn between Jupiter
and [D]Apollo
A messenger ar[Em]rived with a
[C]black nightin[D]gale
I seen her on [Em]the stairs and I
[G]couldn't help but [D]follow
Follow her [Em]down past the fountain where
they [C]lifted [D]her vei[G]l.

[Verse 5]
I stumbled to [Em]my feet
I rode past de[G]struction in [D]the ditches
With [Em]the stitches still mending beneath
a [C]heart- shaped tat[D]too
Renegade [Em]priests and
[G]treacherous young [D]witches
Were [Em]handing out the flowers
that I'd [C]given to [D]you.

[Verse 6]
The palace of [Em]mirrors
Where dog [G]soldiers are re[D]flected
The endless [Em]road and the
[C]wailing of [D]chimes
The empty [Em]rooms where her
[G]memory is pro[D]tected
Where the [Em]angel's voices whisper
to the [C]souls of [D]previous [G]times.

[Verse 7]
She wakes him [Em]up
Forty- eight hours [G]later the sun
is [D]breaking
Near broken [Em]chains,
mountain [C]laurel and rolling [D]rocks
She's begging to [Em]know what
[G]measures he now will [D]be taking
He's pulling her [Em]down and she's clutching
on to his [C]long [D]golden [G]locks.[D][Em]
Gentlemen, he said I don't [G]need your organiza[D]tion,
I've shined your [Em]shoes
I've moved your [C]mountains
and marked your [D]cards
But Eden is [Em]burning either brace
[G]yourself for elimina[D]tion
Or else your [Em]hearts must have the courage
for [C]the changing [D]of the [G]guards.
Peace [D]will come

[Verse 8]
[Em]
With tran[G]quillity and [D]splendor
on the wheels of [Em]fire
But will bring us [C]no re[D]ward
when her false [Em]idols fall
And cruel [G]death sur[D]renders with
its [Em]pale ghost retreating
Between the [C]King and [D]the Queen [G]of Swords.

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