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 Em              D                 C              Am  D C               D
"Welcome to the show, the great finale's finally here, I thank you for coming
                                                              Em
                                                      into my theatre of fear;
 Em              D                C             Am D   C              D
Welcome to the show, you're all witnesses you see, A privledged invitation
                                                             Em
                                                      to the last rights of me.

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"Remember me? You can't save me,     Mama you never needed me;
 Em          D             C  D    Am   Em     G         D                 C
  No crimson king, look in my eyes, you'll see, Mama I'm lonely, it's only me,
                                                                            D
                                                                  it's only me.
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    Em                D                 C                            Am   D
"I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be the crimson idol of a
                                                                      million
  Em                D                 C                            Am   D
  I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be the crimson idol of a
                                                            Am
                                                   million eyes, of a million"

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  Em                       F#/D                    C         Am
"I am the prisoner of the paradise I dreamed, the idol of a million lonely
                                                              Em            Gm
                                                              faces look at me
  Em                                       F#/D                 C
Behind the mask of sorrow, four doors of doom behind my eyes, I've got their
                                         Am              Em               Gm
                                         footprints all across my crimson mind

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  Em         F#/D       C             D              Em         F#/D
"Long live, long live, long live the King of Mercy, Long live, long live,
                                                                     C     Am D
                                                                    There is no

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  Em              D        C     D
"love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free;
 No  love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free"

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  Em                         F#/D                   C             Am
"I was the warrior, with an anthem in my soul, the idol of eight thousand
                                                             Em             Gm
                                                     lonely days of rage ago
  Em                      F#/D                          C               Am
And remember me when it comes your time to choose, be careful what ya wish
                                                      Em            G    Em
                                                for, it might just come true

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|--9__--11__-12__-14__-|-9__-10__-12-14_-14|
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"Long live, long live, long live the King of Mercy, Long live, long live,
                                                                     C     Am D
                                                                    There is no

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  Em              D        C     D
"love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free;
 No  love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free"

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  B             B6      B       N.C.
"Red, crimson red, am I the invisible boy?
       B        B6            B      N.C.
The strap on my back...    ahhhh"
                  (ah ah ah ah ah)

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   B            B6   B
"Red, crimson red, no I was never to be. Only
    B           B6   B
   one crimson son, no it never was me"

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  F#m                     G#/E                     D
"Living in the limelight little did I know, I was dying in the shadows and
                                                             E
                                                        the mirror was my soul
         F#m                G#/E                          D
  It was all I ever wanted, everything I dreamed, But the dream became my
                                                       E
                                     nightmare and no-one could hear me scream

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       F#m                  G#/E             D                  E
 "With these six-strings, I make a noose, to take my life, it's time to chose

      F#m               G#/E          D  C#             C#
  The headlines read of my demise, of my suicide, of my suicide.

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"Oh sweet silence, where is the sting? I am no idol, no crimson king

 F#m               E                      D                    E
I'm the imposter, the world has seen, my father was the idol, it was never me

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"I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be the crimson idol of a
                                                                       million
 F#m                E                 D                            Bm   E
  I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be the crimson idol of a
                                                            Bm
                                                   million eyes, of a million"

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"love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free;
No  love to shelter me, Only love, love set me free"

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