{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2834746,"song":"Incubus","artist":"Marillion","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11642641-incubus-chords-by-marillion/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2834746?type=chord","rating":4.91738,"votes":8,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]\r\nWhen footlights       dim in reverence        to prescient passion[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]\r\nForewarned,      my audience leaves the stage[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]\r\nFloating ahead perfumed shift[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]\r\nWithin the stammering silence[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G/E[/ch]\r\nThe face that launched a thousand frames[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]\r\nBetrayed         by a porcelain tear,        a stained career[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]                   [ch]Am/G[/ch]\r\nYou played        this scene before,      you played        this scene before[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G/E[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G/E[/ch]         \r\nI the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]\r\nA misplaced reaction[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Synth solo]\r\n[ch]Cm[/ch] [ch]Gm7[/ch] [ch]Cm[/ch] [ch]Gm7[/ch] [ch]Cm[/ch] [ch]Gm7[/ch] [ch]Cm[/ch] [ch]Gm7[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                                             [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images[/tab]\r\n\r\nIn which you will always be the star (always be the star)\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nUntouchable, unapproachable, constant in the darkness[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nNursing an erection, a misplaced reaction[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWith no flower to place before this gravestone[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd the walls become enticingly newspaper thin[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBut that would only be developing the negative view[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe public act, let you model your shame[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOn the mannequin catwalk, catwalk[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nLet the cats walk, and the cat walks[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]            [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]                   [ch]Am/G[/ch]\r\nI've played        this scene before,      I've played        this scene before[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G/E[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G/E[/ch]         \r\nI the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G/E[/ch]\r\nA misplaced reaction, satisfaction[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nYou can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]                                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWho as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]                                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nYou who I directed with lovers will, you who I let hypnotise the lens[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou who I let bathe in the spotlights glare[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nJust like a greasepaint mask[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Guitar solo]\r\n[tab][ch]Fm[/ch] [ch]C#m[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n(8 times)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge 2]\r\n[tab]                [ch]F#m[/ch]               [ch]C#m[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut now I'm the snake in the grass, the ghost of film reels past[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]F#m[/ch]           [ch]C#m[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]F#sus4[/ch] [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nI'm the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C#sus4[/ch] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nIt's just begun[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F#sus4[/ch]                           [ch]F#[/ch] \r\nYour perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C#sus4[/ch]                          [ch]C#m[/ch]  [ch]F#sus4[/ch] \r\nAs you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]F#[/ch]                          [ch]C#sus4[/ch]                    [ch]C#m[/ch] \r\nFlooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]F#sus4[/ch]                     [ch]F#[/ch] \r\nRetrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C#sus4[/ch]                            [ch]C#m[/ch] \r\nMy cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]F#sus4[/ch]                    [ch]F#[/ch]                    [ch]C#sus4[/ch] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nWaiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]F#sus4[/ch]                    [ch]F#[/ch]                    [ch]C#sus4[/ch] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nWaiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]C#[/ch]\r\nYou've played this scene before[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nAm G/E Am G/E Am G/E Am G/E\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nAm G/E Am G/E\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n[Synth solo]\nCm Gm7 Cm Gm7 Cm Gm7 Cm Gm7\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\nIn which you will always be the star (always be the star)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nAm G/E Am G/E\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nAm Em D D A Em D D A\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Guitar solo]\n\n\n[Bridge 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