[Intro Riff (has variations)]
C#5 D5 C#5 D5 C#5
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[Verse Riff (also has variations]
Bm
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Bm
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B|----------------------------------------------------------------|
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[Intro (Riff)]
| C#5 D5 C#5 | D5 C#5 | (x4)
| C#5 D5 C#5 | D5 C#5 | C#5 D5 C#5 | D5 C#5 D5 B5 | (x4)
| C#5 D5 C#5 | D5 C#5 D5 B5 | (x4)
| C#m(b9) | B5 | (x8)
[Guitar Melody]
| C#5 | % | F#5 | A5 B5 |
| C#5 | A5 | G#5 | F#5 E5 |
[Pre-Verse (Riff)]
| Bm | % | % | % | (x4)
[Verse 1]
B5
Freedom (calls my name)
C#/B
Serenity (keeps me sane)
A#dim/B Bm
Happiness, (it dulls the pain)
B5
Honest (to see my place)
G/B
Open (to other ways)
C/B B(b9)
Willingness (to under - stand)
B5
Justice (but do not judge)
C#/B
Courtesy (for others' flaws)
A#dim/B
Kindness, (it's not that hard)
B5
Self-restraint (of tongue and pen)
G/B
Inventory, (my daily friend)
C/B B(b9)
Analysis (let down your guard)
[Pre-Chorus]
C#(b9)
Look in the mirror
What do you see?
The shattered fortress
That once bound me
[Chorus]
Bm A#dim7 D#dim7 Em G#dim7 Bm G#dim7 A#dim7 G A
Fate - ful as - cent, through dark - est fires
Dm C#dim7 F#dim7 Gm Bdim7 Dm Bdim7 C#dim7 Bb C/E C
I've found the path to take me higher
['This Dying Soul' Interlude]
| B5 | B5 F#dim | B5 | Bm |
| B5 | B5 F#dim | B5 | B5 D5 D#5 E5 |
[Verse 2]
G5
You're smart enough
C#/B
For me to trust
A#dim/B Bm
Go live your life now
B5
Just keep these steps
G/B
In your life
C/B B D5 D#5 E5
And you'll know how
B5
If you're not sure,
C#/B
Ask yourself,
A#dim/B Bm
"Have I done to them
B5 G/B C/B B5 C5 C#5 D5 D#5 E5 F5
As I would have them do to me?"
[Pre-Chorus]
C#(b9)
Look in the mirror
What do you see?
The shattered fortress
Fly now, be free
[Chorus]
Bm A#dim7 D#dim7 Em G#dim7 Bm G#dim7 A#dim7 G A
Fate - ful as - cent, through dark - est fires
Dm C#dim7 F#dim7 Gm Bdim7 Dm Bdim7 C#dim7 Bb C/E C
I've found the path to take me higher
[Bridge]
Em Bm
I once thought it better to be right
Em Bm
But now I have finally seen the light
C#7 G
Sometimes you've got to be wrong
And learn from mistakes
C#7 Em
I live with serenity now
Not self-righteous hate
[Solo Section Riff]
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 D5 D/C# |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 |
[Keyboard Solo]
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 D5 D/C# |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 D5 D/C# |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 D5 D/C# |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 D5 D/C# |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 |
[Second Solo Section Riff]
| E7 | (x8)
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 D5 D/C# |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 D5 D/C# |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 D5 D/C# |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 D5 D/C# |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 |
| E7 | (x8)
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 D5 D/C# |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | B5 D5 D/C# |
| C5 B5 C5 B5 | Bm | C5 B5 C5 B5 | N.C. |
[Receive: Spoken Word]
| Em | C#m7b5 | Cmaj7 | F#m7b5 |
| Em | C#m7b5 | Cmaj7 | Am |
| Em | C#m7b5 | Cmaj7 | F#m7b5 |
| Em | C#m7b5 | Cmaj7 | Am |
[Receive: Verse]
Em C#m7b5 Cmaj7 F#m7b5
Now that you can see all you have done
Em C#m7b5 Cmaj7 F#m7b5
It's time to take that step into the kingdom
Em C#m7b5 Cmaj7 F#m7b5
All your sins will help to make you strong
Em C#m7b5 Cmaj7 Asus2 Am
And help you break right through the prison wall
[Chorus]
Bbm Ab
Keep all of me,
Cm Abm Eb Db
The desires that once burned me deep in side
Bbm
Help me live today
Gm7b5
And help to give me grace
Gb
To carry out your way
Bbm Fm Bdim7 Csus4 C
I am ready, help me be all I can be
Bbm F/A Ddim7 Db7#11 Csus4 C
I am ready, help guide me and keep me free
[Pre-Solo]
| Fm | % | (x4)
[Guitar Solo]
| Fm | % | G/F | % | Gb/F | % | Fm | % | (x4)
| Fm | % | G | % | Gb | % | Fm | % | (x4)
| Cm Am7b5 | Am7b5 | Ab Dm7b5 | Dm7b5 Gsus4 |
| Cm Am7b5 | Ab Fm | Fm |
| Cm Am7b5 | Am7b5 | Ab Dm7b5 | Dm7b5 Gsus4 |
| Cm Am7b5 | Ab G | G |
[Outro]
G Cm Am7b5 Ab Dm7b5
I am responsible when anyone, anywhere
Gsus4 Cm Am7b5 Ab Fm
Reaches out for help, I want my hand to be there
G Cm Am7b5 Ab Dm7b5
I am responsible when anyone, anywhere
Gsus4 Cm Am7b5 Ab Fm
Reaches out for help, I want my hand to be there
Db E/B
Whoah, oh oh
G Abdim7/F Abdim7/D A/C#
Whoah whoah whoah
['The Glass Prison' Reprise]
| Bm | % | Bm A | G G#m Ddim |
| Bm A | G G#m Ddim | (x2)
['The Root of All Evil' Reprise]
N.C. B5(b9)
[X. Restraint]
Freedom calls my name
Serenity keeps me sane
Happiness -- it dulls the pain
Honest to see my place
Open to other ways
Willingness to understand
Justice but do not judge
Courtesy for others' flaws
Kindness -- it's not that hard
Self-restraint of tongue and pen
Inventory -- my daily friend
Analysis let down your guard
Look in the mirror
What do you see?
The shattered fortress
That once bound me
Faithful ascent, through darkest fires
I've found the path to take me higher
You're smart enough for me to trust go live your life now
Just keep these steps in your life and you'll know how
If you're not sure, ask yourself,
"Have I done to them as I would have them do to me?"
Look in the mirror
What's that you see?
The shattered fortress
Fly now be free
Faithful ascent, through darkest fires
I've found the path to take me higher
I once thought it better to be right
But now I have finally seen the light
Sometimes you've got to be wrong
And learn from mistakes
I live with serenity now
Not self-righteous hate
[XI. Receive]
(Help me be a channel of Thy peace
That where there is hatred, I may bring love;
That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
That where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
That where there is error, I may bring truth;
That where there is doubt, I may bring faith)
Now that you can see all you have done
(That where there is despair, I may bring hope;
That where there are shadows, I may bring light)
It's time to take that step into the kingdom
(That where there is sadness, I may bring joy)
All your sins will help to make you strong
(That I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted.
That I may seek to understand than to be understood)
And help you break right through the prison wall
(That I may seek to love, rather than to be loved,
for it is by self-forgetting that one finds,
it is by forgiving that one is forgiven)
Keep all of me,
The desires that once burned me deep inside
Help me live today
And help to give me grace
To carry out your way
I am ready, help me be all I can be
I am ready, help guide me and keep me free
[XII. Responsible]
I am responsible when anyone, anywhere
Reaches out for help, I want my hand to be there
I am responsible when anyone, anywhere
Reaches out for help, I want my hand to be there
[Dedicated to Bill W. and all of his friends]
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