(From "The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage")
Transcription by Udi Susser "The Happy Aardvark".
Intro: (Keep a thundering D as the bass note. Of course a piano is preferable but a guitar works as well. By the way, are all you internet people out there guitar people? If I see more "tab masters" I will explode to little bits. This of course will be on all your collective heads. But I digress.)
Dm.........C/D..........Dm...........C/D..........Dm............Am/D........
.....Eb (make this one very thundering and messy).
Dm C/D Am G F
Genuflection / erection in church.
Dm C Am G
Sacristy cloth / moth-eaten shroud.
Dm C Am G F Em
Secret silence / sacred secrets
F Em Dm
accumulate dust, aggravate the eye.
Dm C Am G F
Incautious laughter after confession.
Dm C Am G
Benediction - fictional fear
Dm C Am G F Em
Hidden faces ... Grace is a name,
F Em Dm F Em C Dm F Em C Dm F Em Dm C G/B
like Chastity , like Lucifer, like mine.
C G/B
You took me through the window-stain,
Bb
drowned in image, inscence, choir-refrain
A F
and slow ecstasy -
Em Am Cm G+5/B G Dm
I'd embrace you if I only knew your name....
Dm C Am G F
The silent corner haunts my shadow prayers:
Dm C Am G (long pause)
ice-cold statue - rapture divine,
Dm C Am G F Em
unconscious eyes,
F
the open mouth,
Em
the wound of love,
Dm F Em C Dm F Em C Dm F Em Dm C G/B
the Lie.
C G/B
You took me, gave me reasons for
Bb A F
saints and missals, vigils, all the more holy martyrs -
Em Am
I'd embrace you and walk through
Cm G+5/B G C G/B Bb A F
the one-way door...
Em Am
I'd embrace you, but it would be
Cm Cm/B Cm Cm/B (Repeat in a thundering manner and fade away).
just another lie -
(Worth, 1971)