• Song:

    A Trick Of The Tail

  • Artist:

    Genesis

  • Album:

    The Best of Genesis

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Intro: F#5 ? E5 ? D67M ? E5

F#5                E5         D67M  E5                                  
Bored of the life in the city of gold
      E5           F#5      B5                                           
He'd left and let nobody know
 F#5           E5      D67M             E5             
Gone were the towers he had known from a child
  E5             F#5       B5                          
Alone with the dream of a life
     C#5           F#5        Ab5 
He travelled the wide open road                               
                F5         
The blinkered arcade
               Ab5        F#5          C#5 
In search of another to share in his life
 Eb5 Bb5 C#5
Nowhere
Eb5       F#5          Ab5              
Everyone looked so strange to him

        Eb5              
They've got no horns and they've got no tail
     Ab5                       
They don't even know of our existence
      Eb5                    
Am I wrong to believe in a city of gold
       Ab5                   
That lies in the deep distance, he cried

And wept as they led him away to a cage
"Beast that can talk", read the sign
The creatures they pushed and they prodded his frame
And questioned his story again
But soon they grew bored of their prey
Beast that can talk ?
More like a freak or publicity stunt
Oh, no

They've got no horns and they've got no tail
They don't even know of our existence
Am I wrong to believe in a city of gold
That lies in the deep distance, he cried



            Eb5                                      C#5
And broke down the door of the cage and marched on out
     Ab5                                                    Eb5     F5
He grabbed a creature by the scruff of his neck, pointing out
Bb5                Bb5          Eb5       Bb5  
There, beyond the bounds of your weak imagination
Bb5             Bb5       Eb5               F5  
Lie the noble towers of my city, bright and gold
Eb5  F5   G5                  F5                   C5        Eb5 
Let me take you there and show you a living story
Bb5                C#5           Eb5      
Let me show you others such as me
        Ab5     C#5 
Why did I ever leave ?

They've got no horns and they've got no tail
They don't even know of our existence
Am I wrong to believe in a city of gold
That lies in the deep distance, he cried
And wept

And so we set out with the beast and his horns
And his crazy description of home
After many days journey we came to a peak
Where the beast gazed abroad and cried out
We followed his gaze and we thought maybe we saw
A spire of gold - no, a trick of the eye that's all
But the beast was gone and a voice was heard

They've got no horns and they've got no tail
They don't even know of our existence
Am I wrong to believe in a city of gold
That lies in the deep distance, he cried

                       F#5 ? E5 ? D67M ? E5
Hello friend, welcome home

I'm sorry about the "D67M" chord, but i don't know any other name of it. It's 
supposed to be D5 - B5 - C#5 - F#. If anyone know a better name for this chord, please comment or PM me :)
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