• Song:

    EPITAPH

  • Artist:

    King Crimson

  • Album:

    The 21st Century Guide ...

E5                    D5                 A5              B+  B5
The wall on which the prophets wrote is cracking at the seams

Upon the instruments of death the sunlight brightly gleams

When every man is torn apart with nightmares and with dreams

Will no one lay the laurel wreath as silence drowns the screams


E5                      B5
Confusion will be my epitaph 

As I walk a cracked and broken path               C5                      B5
If we make it we can all sit back and laugh but I fear tomorrow I'll be crying


E5                    D5                 A5              B+  B5
Between the iron gates of fate the seeds of time were sown
And watered by the deeds of those who know and who are known
Knowledge is a deadly friend when no one sets the rules   
The fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools  


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E5                      B5
Confusion will be my epitaph 

As I walk a cracked and broken path
               C5                      B5
If we make it we can all sit back and laugh but I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
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