Chord transcription by Mikayel Abazyan mikayelabazyan@yahoo.com
[Intro:] G G7 G G7 G G7 G G7
G G7 G G7
The golden dream, the seat of all decorum,
G G7 G G
a satellite to match the light of Rome;
C Am G G
its silver children chatter in the Forum,
C Am D D
the bath-house, and the brothels, and their homes
G G7 G G
about the latest fashions for their clothes.
D C C C
Across the Tyrrhenian Sea comes drifting
Am D G G7 G G7
a song that none of them have ever known.
G G7 G G7
The golden dream that holds back all the hours
G G7 G G
for the ladies in their Dionysian rites,
C Am G G
blonde heads all garlanded with flowers,
C Am D D
wine and love and laughter through the night
G G7 G G
in constant masque and pageant, constant flight.
D C C C
The ground below them whispers in a murmur
Am D G G7 G G7 G G7 G G7
of passion which is hotter yet than white.
G G7 G G7
The golden dream, the city of all cities,
G G7 G G
its towers piercing into azure sky,
C Am G G
whose hand is dealt, regardless of all pity,
C Am D D
condemned to martyrdom, but not to die.
G G7 G G7
Two lovers look up from their hidden bower.
G G7 G G
The wine has stood too long and it turns sour.
D C
I see the tall and bending of your streets
D C
but now they echo only leather tourist feet
D C (b) Am
and waking, ashen, grey-blue blinding death
G G7 G G7 G G7 G G7 G G7
your sudden winding-sheet.