• Song:

    In Old Yellowcake

  • Artist:

    Rasputina

  • Album:

    Oh Perilous World (Delu...

Em (022000@1)                CSmoke (x32010@1)rises from an ice factory on the edge, 
G (320003@1)                                   DOn (xx0232@1)the edge of a city that exists in perpetual gloom.
   Em (022000@1)                               C (x32010@1)                
I snatch a note from the basket of a passing bicycle. 
         G (320003@1)                           
It says "Go to the flour factory.
                   D (xx0232@1)               
There's something waiting there for you."

A (x02220@1)                 CUnder (x32010@1)the window, covered by curtains, 
     G (320003@1)                      Dall (xx0232@1)lacy and splattered with blood, 
         Em (022000@1)                      Cwe (x32010@1)find crutches in the corner and bullets on she shelves, 
                    G (320003@1)                                  Dwhich (xx0232@1)I dismiss at once as being equivalent, irrelevant, in and of themselves.

Em (022000@1)                                CUnderneath (x32010@1)the staircase there's a mast which flies a flag. 
         G (320003@1)                           DDespite (xx0232@1)dankness beyond imagining, it floats on to a higher hole. 
     Em (022000@1)                                       
In tunnels gouged beneath the basement room are, unmistakably, 
G (320003@1)                             Dsets (xx0232@1)of bloody handprints on a crumbling wall.

Em (022000@1)           C (x32010@1)              G (320003@1)        DOh, (xx0232@1)won't you be there with me for it tonight? 
Em (022000@1)                C (x32010@1)                 G (320003@1)                  DIn (xx0232@1)this hut-to-hut witch hunt down the tunnels of Old Yellowcake, 
Em (022000@1)           C (x32010@1)                 G (320003@1)              Dwhere (xx0232@1)all the souls in the city go drowning by starlight, 
Em (022000@1)                  C (x32010@1)                    G (320003@1)              Dwhere (xx0232@1)each choice you make is a fierce firefight or a new mistake?

Em (022000@1)                   C (x32010@1)   
Inside of a room is a cage, is a cage. 
        G (320003@1)                 DIt's (xx0232@1)made out of chain and glass. 
             Em (022000@1)               C (x32010@1)              G (320003@1)             DIt's (xx0232@1)about forty feet high and three feet wide, it was built to last. 
Em (022000@1)             C (x32010@1)                                       G (320003@1)          DIt's (xx0232@1)against a brick wall in an old muddy corner of a basement tunnel room. 
           Em (022000@1)                   C (x32010@1)                     G (320003@1)   
There's a man in the cage in the old muddy corner. He's asleep but he'll wake
     Dup (xx0232@1)soon.

A (x02220@1)                CUnder (x32010@1)the window, covered by curtains, 
     G (320003@1)                       Dall (xx0232@1)lacy and splattered with blood, 
         Em (022000@1)                       Cwe (x32010@1)find crutches in the corner and bullets on she shelves, 
                    G (320003@1)                                   Dwhich (xx0232@1)I dismiss at once as being equivalent, irrelevant, in and of themselves.

Em (022000@1)           C (x32010@1)              G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)                 
Oh, won't you be there with me for it tonight? 
Em (022000@1)                 C (x32010@1)                 G (320003@1)                 DIn (xx0232@1)this hut-to-hut witch hunt down the tunnels of Old Yellowcake, 
Em (022000@1)           C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)              Dwhere (xx0232@1)all the souls in the city go drowning by starlight, 
Em (022000@1)                   C (x32010@1)                   G (320003@1)            Dwhere (xx0232@1)each choice you make is a fierce firefight or a new mistake?

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