ABDEC#m
1 1 2 2
1 1
I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence
2 2
I am the assassin, providing your Nemesis
F#E
On the sacrificial altar to success, my friend
BA
Unleash a stranger from a kiss, my friend
EF#
No incantations of remorse, my friend, unsheathe the blade within the voice
1
My friend, my friend, my friend, my friend
1 2 2
I am the assassin, assassin, assassin
1
Who decorates the scarf with the fugi knot
1
Who camouflaged emotion in a thousand yard stare
2
Who gouged the notches from the family tree
2
Who hypnotised the guilt in career rhythm trance
F#EBAEF#
Assassing, assassing, assassing, assassing
Listen to the blade
EBEBF#EBAEF#
Feel the blade
3
4
BmAGA
Listen as the syllables of slaughter cut with calm precision
BmAGA
Patterned frosty phrases rape your ears and sow the ice incision
BmAGA
Adjectives of annihilation bury the point beyond redemption
BmAGAB
Venomous verbs of ruthless candour plagiarise assassin's fervour
BED
Apocalyptic alphabet casting spell
C#mB
The creed of tempered diction
My friend, your friend, the assassin
E
My friend, your friend, the assassin
D
A friend in need is a friend that bleeds
C#m
A friend in need is a friend that bleeds
B
Let bitter silence infect the wound
D
Let bitter silence infect the wound
I am the assassin, my friend
F#
I am the assassin, my friend
G
I am the assassin, my friend
A
I am assassin
2 2
1
You were a sentimental mercenary in a free fire zone
1
Parading a Hollywood conscience
2
You were a fashionable objector with a uniform fetish
2 1
Pavlovian slaver at the cash till ring of success
1 2 2
A non com observer - I assassin the collector - defector
F#E
So you resign yourself to failure, my friend
BA
And I emerge the chilling stranger, my friend
E
To eradicate the problem, my friend
F#E
Unsheathe the blade within the voice, within the voice
BAEF#
Within the voice, within the voice
BC#m
And what do you call assassins who accuse assassins anyway, my friend?
Measure 1:
e|-|--------|
B|-|--------|
G|-|---6--4-|
D|-|--6--4--|
A|-|-4--4---|
E|-|--------|
Measure 2:
e|-|--------|
B|-|--------|
G|-|---4--2-|
D|-|--4--2--|
A|-|-2--2---|
E|-|--------|
Measure 3:
e|-|-----------------------------------|
B|-|-----------------------------------|
G|-|---6--4-----4--2-----6--4-----8--6-|
D|-|--6--4-----4--2-----6--4-----8--6--|
A|-|-4--4-----2--2-----4--4-----6--6---|
E|-|-----------------------------------|
Measure 4:
e|-|-------------|
B|-|-------------|
G|-|-------------| repeated as
D|-|-------------| necessary
A|-|-------------|
e|-|-7-5-7-5-7-5-|