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[Verse 1]
Am         Fmaj7
  Turn the key
Am           Fmaj7
  And step into the blackness
Am          Fmaj7
  Lamplight falls
Am            Fmaj7
  And casts a laughing phantom
Am   Fmaj7
  I imagine your smile
        Am                       Fmaj7
And the life that we could share
Am             Fmaj7
  But with the last of my steps
          Am                Fmaj7
I see the truth lying there


[Chorus]
     Dm    G
Dead roses
                    C          E7
At the bottom of an oubliette
                             Am              Fmaj7
Where they beat you 'til you begged to live
                          G           C
You are mine and you were always mine
                    Dm          G
Now I'm crying over dead roses
                       C   E7
I could never let them go


[Verse 2]
Am         Fmaj7
  A winged beast
Am            Fmaj7
  With horns upon his cranium
Am        Fmaj7
  Slinks away
Am              Fmaj7
  And grinning, makеs his way up
Am            Fmaj7
  I grasp the pieces of rose
         Am                  Fmaj7
And your raven locks of hair
Am           Fmaj7
  I hear the turn of the key
     Am                   Fmaj7
As I hiss my final prayer


[Chorus]
     Dm     G
Dead roses
                    C         E7
At the bottom of an oubliette
                             Am           Fmaj7
Where they beat you 'til you beg to live
                          G           C
You are mine and you were always mine
                    Dm          G
Now I'm crying over dead roses
                       C   E7
I could never let them go


[Outro]
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