The Sword Of Damocles Cifras

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  /  Rufus Wainwright       /   Read about the meaning of the song in the
 /  The Sword of Damocles  /   YouTube video description:
/_________________________/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmUVy43tqw4
 
 
 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” [A2] as 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  | %      | %      | %      |
 
  | Cm7 | %      | %      | %      |
 
  | 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   | %      | A7(9)  | %      |
 
  | A   | %      | 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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