The Art of Lying (Unplugged)
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The Art of Lying (Unplugged)
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Lyrics
Intro
Key: Fm
Technique: Misty Parallelism
(Ethereal atmosphere with high-end sparkle)
Fm9] [Amaj7] [Fm9] [Amaj7
Bbm11] [Dmaj7] [Csus4] [C
Verse 1
Key: Fm
Technique: Modal Interchanges
(Acoustic fingerstyle with wide intervals)
[Fm9] He bends above the quiet frame... [Abmaj7#11] the candle burns the night...
[Dbmaj7] To mend the broken pulse of time... [Emaj7] he trades his fading sight...
[Fm9] The brass and glass may align... [Abmaj7#11] with such a tender grace...
[Dbmaj7] But silence leaves a heavy mark... [Emaj7] upon this hollow place...
Refrain
Key: Eb
Technique: Floating Mixolydian
(Piano chords ringing out)
[Ebadd9] The seconds turn to years of dust... [Dbmaj7/Eb] upon the window sill...
[Abmaj7] A life devoted to the art... [Bmaj7] and virtue of the skill...
Verse 2
Key: Fm
Technique: Building Layered Textures
(Mellotron strings enter softly)
[Fm9] He keeps a secret buried deep... [Abmaj7#11] beneath the wood and stone...
[Dbmaj7] A shadow walking in the hall... [Emaj7] he never walks alone...
[Fm9] The vessel cracked so long ago... [Abmaj7#11] no mending makes it whole...
[Dbmaj7] Half a century of sleep... [Emaj7] two halves but not a soul...
Chorus
Key: E
Technique: Chromatic Mediant Bloom
(Lush, romantic, and wide soundstage)
[Emaj7] Oh darling, hear the words I speak...
Key: C
[Cmaj7] ...before the light is gone...
Key: Ab
[Abmaj7] I never held your heart in mine...
Key: F
[Fmaj7] ...yet still I lingered on...
Key: E
[Emaj7] A pantomime of love and loss...
Key: C
[Cmaj7] ...a play without a stage...
Key: Ab
[Abmaj7] We trapped the birds inside the chest...
Key: C
[Bb6/9] ...and never built the cage...
Bridge
Key: D Lydian
Technique: The Geometric Climb
(Driving rhythm in 7/8 time)
[Dmaj7#11] I stayed to watch the seasons fade...
Key: F Lydian
[Fmaj7#11] The winter turned to grey...
Key: Ab Lydian
[Abmaj7#11] But in the end...
Key: B Lydian
[Bmaj7#11] The debt was paid!
Break
Key: Fm
(Sudden Silence - Ambient Cello Note)
Bbm] ... [A] ... [Ab] ... [G
Outro
Key: Gm
Technique: Heavy Polytonal Riffing
(Distorted guitar hits hard but with complex voicings)
[Gm11] The rhythm stops, the iron cools...
Ebmaj7#11] We sleep beneath... [D7b9
[Gm11] The ancient rules...
Ebmaj7#11] I hold you in the dark! [D7b9
Finale
Key: Gm
[Gm11] I HOLD YOU IN THE DARK!
[G5] (Sudden Abrupt Stop)
End