Angelo De Augustine - Blood Red Thorn

                Blood Red Thorn by Angelo De Augustine
Album: Toil and Trouble

Standard Tuning
No Capo


[Intro]
B#m Fm B#m
B#m Fm Cm B#m


[Verse 1]
B#m   Fm
On my own
Cm              G
I don't need no one
B#m       Fm
Blood red thorn
Cm             B#m
Velvet crimson palms
B#m         Fm
You play so sly
       Cm               G
But you held on for too long
         F#m              Bm
Now your heart is ghostly white
          G                   Fm  B#m
In chance devotion, frozen in time

B#m Fm Cm B#m


[Verse 2]
B#m    Fm
Oh, my love
    Cm                   G
Someday you'll find your home
B#m         Fm
Life on the run
   Cm                 B#m
Is enough to wear one down
B#m        Fm
You fly so high
Cm                          G
In a steel bird burning the sky
         F#m           Bm
Now your eyes work overtime
          G                        Fm
Arranging oceans and watching them dry


[Bridge]
Cm G Cm G
Cm G Fm G
G Fm


[Verse 3]
    B#m    Fm
An ancient tongue
    Cm            G
The alchemist was wrong
B#m           Fm
Philosopher's stone
Cm                G
Made you live too long
B#m     Fm
Abusing fire
                  G
A self inflicting desire
  F#m      Bm
A ritual performed
        G                 Fm B#m
An obligation, a sinister cypher


[Outro]
B#m Fm Cm G
B#m Fm Cm B#m