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"TORTURE"                                                        THE CURE
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Album: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Year: 1987
Music and lyrics: Robert Smith
Tab by: graph_sas@hotmail.com For any comment e-mail me 
Note: This tab has been rectified. Sorry & Thanks!
    Dm          F
I'm in the room without a light
     F              C
The room without a view
     Dm               F
I'm here for one more treacherous night
F                   C
Another night with you
  Dm              F
It tortures me to move my hands
   F              C
To try to move at all
    Dm
And pulled
           F
My skin so tight it screams
     F
And screams and screams
    C
And pulls some more
Bridge:
Em
  Hanging like this
        G
Like a vampire bat
Em
  Hanging like this
           G
Hanging on your back
    Dm             F F C
I'm helpless again
DmFFC
    (x4)
   Dm               F
My body is cut and broken
      F             C
It's shattered and sore
   Dm               F
My body is cut wide open
         F             C
I can't stand anymore
Dm              F
It tortures me to move my hands
   F              C
To try to move at all
    Dm
And pulled
           F
My skin so tight it screams
     F
And screams and screams
    C
And screams some more
Em
  Hanging like this
        G
Like a vampire bat
Em
  Hanging like this
           G
Hanging on your back
    Dm          F
Oh it's torture
         F          C
And I'm almost there
      Dm      F
It's torture
        F            C
But I'm almost there

Torture chords and lyrics

Free chords for Torture by The Cure. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.

"TORTURE"                                                        THE CURE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Album: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Year: 1987
Music and lyrics: Robert Smith
Tab by: graph_sas@hotmail.com For any comment e-mail me 
Note: This tab has been rectified. Sorry & Thanks!
Bridge:
Dm F F C (x4)

Torture Chords by The Cure

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