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The Sword Of Damocles

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/ Rufus Wainwright / Read about the meaning of the song in the
/ The Sword of Damocles / YouTube video description:
Time signature is 4/4.
Tempo is Q=105 bpm. (Hence, the backbeat is on beat 3.)
This notation style is the chords-in-bars style:
One bar is notated like “| chord-name|” read from left to right.
The symbol “%” means to continue on the same chord as before.
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[FOREPLAY]
(In the music video edit, the opening 4 bars in this foreplay section are
extended to what adds up to ten bars of 4/4 bars and one bar of 3/4.)
| A| %| %| %|
(contrabass and cello enter)
| A| %| %| %|
[VERSES 1 + 2 + 3]
(The piano voicings include the low note “a” A2as a recurring bass note.
This creates the indistinctness of the bass register, as the bass guitar
then mostly stays above that A2, up in the low-mid register.)
||: A| %| %| %|
| F♯m/a| %| %| %|
| Bm7/a| %| %| %|
| E7| %| %| %:|| 3x
“ Release
The sword of Damocles
Just release it
To the authorities
We have been given
The same fortune cookies
You and I have
All of our progenies
Raise kindness
Above all else
Avoid the books of
Hatred behind the shelves
[VERSE 4]
| A| %| %| %|
| F♯m/a| %| %| %|
| Bm7/a| %| %| %|
| E7| %| Bm7/a| %|
| A| %| %| %|
I will caress your
Caress your curly hair
With affection
Many a good reason to cut off your head
Then and then
[INTERLUDE]
| B♭| %| C| %|
| A| %| %| %|
[VERSE 5]
| B♭| %| %| %|
| Gm/b♭| %| %| %|
| Cm7/b♭| %| %| %|
| F7| %| %| %|
Release
The Sword of Damocles
Just release it
I'm begging
You on my knees
[VERSE 6]
| B♭| %| %| %|
| Gm| %| %| %|
| Cm7| %| %| %|
| F7| %|
||: Cm7| %| F7| %:|| 3x
| B♭| %|
There is no reason
To hide it from the sun
I am a tyrant
Trust me, you are not the one and only
And trust me, you are not the one and only
And trust me, you are not the one and only
Lonely person
[ENDING]
| C(9)| %| A7(9)| %|
| A(9)| %| D/a| %|
| Dm/a| %| %| %|
| A| %| %...
Release
The sword of Damocles
Release
The sword of Damocles
Just release it
Cut the thread
Why don't you, please? ”
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1st /November /18
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