Aegis Cifras

AEGIS
As recorded by The Mars Volta
(From the 2012 Album NOCTOURNIQUET)
 
 
 
[Intro]
D  Gm   D   Gm
D   Gm   Bbm
A  D   Gm   Gb  Gm
 
 
[Verse 1]
Gm                    D
The days are catching up to me
Gm                    D7  D
My unconscious fear unbound
Dm    Am      Gm             D
Is it time to tailor fit the notion
                 Gm         D       Gb
That come Sunday I'm in the ground?
Gm                     Gbm D     Gm              D
The obelisk fumes have occupied, emphatically austere
Am                         Gm
A smelter pile made by the debt collector
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
          Bbm                      D   Gm
Where the children should be seen, not heard
              Bbm   Am  Gbm  Gm    C Bb
Even if there is no way back home
 
 
[Chorus]
Gm               C Bb
I'm not running away
Gm               C Bb
I'm not running away
Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away
Gm               C Bb
I'm not running away
 
 
[Interlude]
Gm   Gbm D  Gm  Gbm D
Am  Gm  Bbm  Am D  Gm   Gb
 
 
[Verse 2]
Gm                     D
Can you hear him saber rattling
Gm                     D
With bones I've left behind?
Am             Gm             D
Obloquy is the bulwark of his implants
     Gm                 D
Am I your son or just a clone?
Gm               D          Gm               D
Dasehra you were sworn to be, a window to my night
Am                  Gm
My subterfuge, just branches to the mandrake
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
          Bbm                      D   Gm
Where the children should be seen, not heard
              Bbm   Am  Gbm  Gm    C Bb
Even if there is no way back home
 
 
[Chorus]
Gm      F        Cm Bb
I'm not running away
Gm      F        Cm Bb
I'm not running away
Gm      F        Cm Bb
I'm not running away
Gm      F       Cm Bb
I'm not running away
 
 
[Bridge]
Gm        Cm
Under the aegis of cognition
     Ab             F
I am dead, I will escape
Gm        Cm
Engrammic marks of ligature
     Ab             F
I am dead, I will escape
Gm        Cm
Under the aegis of cognition
     Ab            F
I am dead, I will escape
Gm        Cm
Engrammic marks of ligature
     Ab             F
Am I dead? Will I escape?
 
 
[Interlude]
Gm  F  C  Bb
 
 
[Chorus]
Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away
Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away
G       F        C Bb
I'm not running away
Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away
Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away
Bb
(Am I running away?)
Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away
Bb
(Am I running away?)
Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away
Bb
(Am I running away?)
Gm      F        C Bb
I'm not running away
Bb
(I am running away)
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