Love's Souvenir (Chords)
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[Verse 1]
Cm Dm Cm
Behold the gallery of love's souvenirs
Cm Ebm Fm Gm
Behold the proof it wasn't just a dream
Abm Cm Cm Dm Cm
My mind is a museum of things held dear
Fm Dm
My bones, a mausoleum for my grief
Cm Dm Cm
Somehow I lived a decade each passing year
Cm Ebm Fm Gm
A child chasing love through high esteem
Gm Cm Dm Cm
No resting on my laurels, there's just die or win
Fm Cm
Sequestered in the dark, afraid to be
[Chorus]
Fm Cm
So bury me
Abm Fm
There is no poetry
Fm Em Cm
In rotting away in bed
Cm Dm Ebm
Rotting in my regrets
[Verse 2]
Cm Dm Cm
I wish I knew what came before these castle walls
Cm Ebm Fm Gm
I wish I could remember how to be
Abm Cm Cm Dm Cm
But in the winding darkness of those chasmal halls
Fm Cm
There's not a single echo left of me
[Chorus]
Fm Cm
So bury me
Abm Fm
There is no poetry
Fm Em Cm
In rotting away in bed
Cm Dm Ebm
Rotting in my regrets
F G
Define the line
G F
Where loathing and longing lie
Ab Ab Eb
Where I flinch from touch
Cm Bm Cm
Where I crave too much
[Bridge]
Bb Gm Gm
Paralysed in crumbling foundations
Bb Gm Gm
Captured by ghosts of speculations
Bb Ab Gm Eb Dm
Trapped in time cadavers keep the score
Bb A
Ashamed in desperation
Gm Fm
In throes of trepidation
Fm Ebm
A flight of preservation
Dm Dm
A blight upon my heart
Ebm Dm Cm
Love's souvenir
[Choir Break]
Gm Cm Fm Gm
Contritus es ultra determinatio
Gm Abm Fm
Numquan satris erit
Gm Abm Fm
Mundus melius sine
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Fm Cm
Bury me
Abm Fm
There is no poetry
Fm Em Cm
In rotting away in bed
Cm Dm Ebm
Rotting in my regrets
F G
Define the line
Bb G F
Where loathing and longing lie
Ab Ab Eb
Where I flinch from touch
Cm Bm Cm
Where I crave too much