Artist: King Crimson
Song: The Letters
Album: Islads
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Intro: gently
E|----4-4-4-|
B|---1-2-1--|
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D|--3-------|
A|-3--------|
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Verse:
With quill and silver knife
She carved a poison pen
Wrote to her lover's wife:
"Your husband's seed has fed my flesh".
As if a leper's face
That tainted letter graced
The wife with choke-stone throat
Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes.
interlude:
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variations on Fm
Verse:
Impaled on nails of ice
And raked with emerald fire
The wife with soul of snow
With steady hands begins to write:
"I'm still, I need no life
To serve on boys and men
What's mine was yours is dead
I take my leave of mortal flesh"
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Lublin, Poland
18.08.09