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Opium

( Just the lyrics )

Chord Sheet

Key: G# minor

Capo guitar on 4th fret. All chords relative to capo.

Chords

Am ..... [ x 0 2 2 1 0 ]
Bm ..... [ 2 4 4 3 2 2 ]
C ...... [ x 3 2 0 0 1 ]
Cmaj7/B  [ x 2 2 0 0 1 ]
D9/F#... [ 2 0 0 2 1 0 ]
Em ..... [ 0 2 2 0 0 0 ]
G ...... [ 3 2 0 0 3 3 ]

Intro

  Combination of strumming and arpeggios over the song's chord progression:

  Em (x2)   G (x2)   Bm (x2)  Am   D9/F#   C    Cmaj7/B

Verse 1

Em
   She said she'd never come back
G
   To the substance that she craves
Bm
   That took her out of contact
Am  D9/F#
       C                     Cmaj7/B
   And shoved her toward the grave

Em
    She said, "How can this control me?"
G
    As the answer circled near.
Bm
    "If I just let it patrol me,
Am  D9/F#
        C             Cmaj7/B
It will swallow every fear."

Em

Chorus

Choruses have the same chord progression, each chord played only half as long.

       Em
So she lets it in and drinks the blood
    G
She swallows whole the flesh
    Bm
She starts to think it tastes like love
Am      D9/F#      C          Cmaj7/B
Beauti- ful        and fresh

        Em
But the manacles she's worn so long
    G
The ones that made her arms so strong
    Bm
Are taking hold again
    Am    D9/F#        C    Cmaj7/B
And rede- fining       si-           n

Verse 2

Em
    The image of the worshipped son
G
    Has her in its snare
Bm
    Now one and one and one make one
Am  D9/F#
    C                Cmaj7/B
And she just doesn't care

Em
    There's an itch inside her in that place
G
    Where her fantasies originate
Bm
    And some ephemeral great face
Am  D9/F#
C             Cmaj7/B
Seals her irritated fate

Chorus

           Em
She says, "How can this control me
     G
If I just let it patrol me?"
        Bm
And her sins are washed away
          Am      D9/F#         C      Cmaj7/B
Since the drug is in        her veins

      Em
She's got it in her brain
          G
That it's something in her veins
       Bm
And it washes all her sins away
         Am     D9/F#      C      Cmaj7/B
Yeah, it washes all        her sense away

Em
How is this controlling
          G
When it's only love unfolding?
         Bm
When the inlet draws a drop of blood
     Am       D9/F#        C         Cmaj7/B
It's starting up         a new great flood.

Em
How can this control me
     G
If I just let it console me?

Return to longer bars to close the song.

      Bm
If it washes sins away?
       Am              D9/F#   C   Cmaj7/B
No, it washes sense a- wa-
 Em
-y