[Intro]
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[Intro with vocals]
B5
Meet me glassy eyed, blind, and divine. Hold down the fort on the coastline
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The castle is a pimple on the face of the world, a humble spot for tracks to drop if you listen
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[Verse 1]
B5
I see through the bricks, to the sea, crumbling castle
Water's rising up, thick and green, crumbling castle
Inching closer each century, crumbling castle
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E|-----------------------------------------------------------| Are we safe in our citadel?
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[Chorus 1]
F#5G5A5E5
Look upon our condition, crumbling castle
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E|-----------------------------------------------------------|F#5G5A5E5
You would not believe where I'm from, crumbling castle
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A|--5---------|
E|------------|[Guitar and bass break]
C#5E|--12----------------------------------------|
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E|--------------------------------------------|E|-------------12---12-12-12h13p12--12--12-12--12--|-------------12---12-12-12h13p12--12--12-12--12--|
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D|-1415--------------------------------------------|-1415--------------------------------------------|
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E|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|Dual guitar part
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[Verse 3]
B5
We pray for the death, that does not come, crumbling castle
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E|-----------------------------------------------------------| Dug all of our holes in God's Acre, crumbling castle
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E|-----------------------------------------------------------| We have even said our last rites, crumbling castle
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E|-----------------------------------------------------------| Are we safe in our holding cell?
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[Chorus 1]
F#5G5A5E5
Look upon our condition, crumbling castle
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E|-----------------------------------------------------------|F#5G5A5E5
We head to our extinction, crumbling castle
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[Synthesizer break 3:11-3:28]
B5
[Verse 4]
B5
The sounds of the constant lightning would be enough to block out the
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Fall of the end of the world if it were not for the tinnitus from the bomb
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E|--------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------3---5-------|[High Guitar break]
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[Verse 5]
F#m
In the wind I sway, back and forth
I'm brittle as an aged human being
When my walls are safe from wild weather
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E|---------------------------------------------------------------------|F#m
The filth forms into great nastiness
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[Build-up]
F#5A5B5C#
Poly- gon- dwa- naland
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[Synthesizer break 4:49-5:01]
F#m
[Chorus 2]
F#m
I don't want to be a crumbling, crumbling, crumbling castle
I don't want to be a crumbling, crumbling, crumbling castle
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[Verse 6 (with high guitar break riff]
F#m
I don't want to fall into dust
I don't want nothing but to live on
The ache inside my keep spurs me on
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E|---------------------------------------------------------------------|F#m
I don't want to be visible
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[Build-up]
F#5A5B5C#
Poly- gon- dwa- naland
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[Synthesizer break and flute solo 6:16-6:40]
F#m
[Chorus 2]
F#m
I don't want to be a crumbling, crumbling, crumbling castle
I don't want to be a crumbling, crumbling, crumbling castle
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[Verse 7]
B5
On this very day, in one thousand years the earth will be relative to the
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Sun and the moon and a new world will be created, I know because it is written here
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[Arpeggiator break 7:38-8:00]
B5
[Verse 2, first half with synthesizer still going]
B5
I see through the bricks to the sea, crumbling castle
Inching closer each century, crumbling castle
Water rising up, thick and green, crumbling castle
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Are we safe in our citadel?
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[Guitar/harmonica solo]
BDEBDEBDEBDE
[Chorus 1]
F#5G5A5E5
Look upon our condition, crumbling castle
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E|-----------------------------------------------------------|F#5G5A5E5
You would not believe where I'm from, crumbling castle
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[Guitar/harmonica solo]
B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5D5B5
[Outro (only play the 'I' the first time)]
F#5A5G#5C#5EC#5G#5A5B5A5B5D5C#5B5G#5A5G#5F#5
I don't want to be a crumbling, crumbling, crumbling ca- stle
Don't want to be a crumbling, crumbling, crumbling ca- stle
Don't want to be a crumbling, crumbling, crumbling ca- stle
Don't want to be a crumbling, crumbling, crumbling ca- stle
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