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The Fair Lady

       D                         C                 D
The lady smiles as you look into her face
       G                  D
She opens up her arms to you
   Em                     A
Awaiting your embrace
D                      C
What is your desire
D                       G
Fame or love or gold
C                    D           G
It's there in her hand my friend
C                    D        G
Answer if you can my friend
G                    Em                   A
What is it your reaching out to hold

Doors that lead to a fire blazing red
Where she makes no distinctions
Between the living and the dead
She can find your secret madness
She knows your secret name
What demons do you hide my friend
What creatures lurk inside my friend
To her you  know it's really all the same

All your hunger there to sate
All your thirst to slake
Look what you've been given
You can't see what she'll take
Who would ever know her heart
Who would ever tell
For no one will believe my friend
All that you'll receive my friend
Fore she locks you in your private hell

Em                        C
Beast and demons laugh and yell
       Em                    D
The lonely midwife sings
         G                        D
They dance around like puppets
            Em                   A
But the lady holds their strings



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