B5 , D5 , A5 , G5 through the entire song except part at end, where it is just B5 , D5 , A. G?es back to B5 , D5 , A5 , G5 at very end. B5 D5 Well the spells and incantations A5 G5 Of the dawn B5 D5 Get broken by the beat A5 G5 Of the street-sweeper's drum And the way, the way is dark The way is long In this rotten metropolis Our common apocalypse Of storm-drains and neon B5 When the one D5 That you dream of A5 G5 Is gone Fifteen gallons of poison That you've poured in To the breach That's been left behind From your open heart Wine bottle surgeries And all the pretty, young lovers Are overflowing in the gutters And unfolding for one another Like there's something that you don't know Like this one here With her lipstick smeared And her lukewarm thighs But that's better than none When the one That you dream of Is gone B5 Ah the waste-lakes, the drink And it all starts to swim D5 A5 Fifteen gallons of poison B5 The ground cracks open And the city falls in D5 A5 Fifteen gallons of poison B5 D5 A5 G5