Transcription by Phil Lord


      Roy more or less plays the chords straight on this song. I tend
to play them with little riffs in between on the grounds that I dont
have Jimmy Page playing over the top.


      Am9
      Last night I wasnt sleeping
      D               Am9
      I knew it was my last,
      Am9
      I?d just been lying thinking,
      D               Am9
      reliving all my past,
      my familiy and friends have left,
      my children are all lost
      F
      and now Im standing in the death cell
      E
      as the times of sands fall fast

      Am9
      my pour heart it is thumping
      D                 Am9
      my head is filled to flood
      to feel the rope around my neck
      and know its there for good
      I know that I am innocent
      but no ones understood
      and now Im standing on the gallows
      to be murdered in cold blood


      Chorus:
      Am9     G      F    E
      We are creatures of darkness,
      killers of time
      creatures of darkness
      bodies in lime

      Oh hangman, oh hangman
      how sleepless is your bed
      I cant believe my own ears
      my heart is full of lead
      that you?d apply and get the job,
      of pulling off my head
      and leave me kicking in the darkness
      covering the walls with blood

      Oh hangman, oh hangman
      your working in the shade
      oh creatures of the jungle,
      whose message is displayed
      in graphic tones of blood revenge
      all down the civil blade
      and your the creppy little monkey
      who murders to be paid

      In about six minutes time
      Ill be thrown into the lime
      by the screws who dug my grave
      and never felt ashamed
      who threw me in still breathing
      and covered me in slime
      and put me on a map in the governers office
      a number with no name

      We are creatures of darkness....

      and true as I stand here
      Id wished to be untied.
      the repose lies clean at your throat
      that my death might somehow be justified
      theres no unconsecrated ground
      in my heart or in my mind
      I lived and died in a world full of snakes
      and Im buried in a vicious lie

      We are creatures of darkness


      Thats it....

      The chords are played mostly open with E shape barre chords for
the chorus, although you can play them open if you like.

      I havent worked out the little riff at the beginning of the
song, but its just a Amin thing. I seem to remember seeing him play
it at the 7th position, but Im sure theres other ways of doing it.


      Have fun