Mercury

 

Chorus (4x, with guitar riff):

Em                         Gm        F#m               Em/C

The days that are met with onlyness, aid and abet this loneliness

Em                                         Gm F#m Em (guitar riff 1)
Tonight's the night, the wheels are turning
The signal flows, I try to keep the home fires burning
That was my stop, but the subway kept going (guitar riff 1)
Nothing to lose, when Mercury's showing

Chorus (2x only)

Em                                                Gm F#m Em (guitar riff 1)
The moments are mine, if I can just seize the day
But then I forget, what it is I meant to say
I try to hold on, but never too tight (guitar riff 1)
And the hours go by, till Mercury comes out at night

(with ooooh’s)
Staring up at the great machine,

That never began and will never end
The silver starlit tapestry,

I see countless eyes staring back at me

Venus in steel the unbreakable net,

Venus in steel the unbreakable net
The trail of lilies and violets ends,

Trapped in steel the Unbreakable Net

--- octave break (Vegas 10/29/17) ---

 

2x: C# B C# D C# Bb     E G F# F>E E (20:19-20:37)

 

2x: F Eb F Ab F C#      Ab B Bb A>Ab Ab


        B                                    C#
And the rivers run deep, like a quick silver stream
C#                 B                                  B C#

With wings on your feet, your day is longer than your year (guitar riff 2)

C#           B                            C#

Look up the night sky, for a moment I can see

C#                           B                                  B C#

(Oooh’s) That the rivers run deep, your day is longer than your year (guitar riff 2)

C#                    B                         C#

The lies they feed to me, are as edible as mercury
C#                 B                                  B C#

But the rivers run deep, your day is longer than your year (guitar riff 2)
C#                    B                       C#

And the Water-star is singing, its silver melody
C#                      B                                  B C#

(Oooh’s) The rivers run deep, your day is longer than your year

     B                       B C#
Your day is longer than your year        

 

Arpeggio walk-up:

1 2   34  1 2   34  1 2  3 4  12

B C#  //  B C#  //  B-C#-D-E  //

 

B C#  //  B C#  //  B-C#-D-E  //

 

D E   //  D E   //  D-E-F-G   //

 

B C#  //  B C#  //  B-C#-D-E  //

 

D E   //  D E   //  D-E-F-G   //  F G  ///

Bridge 2x (7/8):

    F                        Bb
The tomb of the red Queen is painted in Vermilion

   C#

Is painted in Vermilion

   F/C

Is painted in Vermilion

   Bb

Is painted in Vermilion

 

--- break ---  marimba lumina solo (we’ll do a bass solo)

 

Bb  Bbsus4  Bbm  Fsus4  F  Ab     Db  Dbm  Absus4  Absus2  Ab

 

Em funk 16x

Em
But the net's unbreakable, so don't worry about falling
The voice that you ignore, might be your future calling
Alone we're tossed about, like a bottle in the sea
But together we ascend, and only then escape this gravity

4x

The net's unbreakable, so don't worry about falling

 

Em funk jam, very “Eminence Front”-like, with a walk-up E to B (hit each note twice), lean heavy on the E crescendo as it finally builds & culminates.

 

End (octave walk-down) 4x: EE  DD C#C# CC    then: Em

 

Guitar Riff 1           Guitar Riff 1

 

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