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
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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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