Merchants Of Decay (acoustic) Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays523

Merchants Of Decay (acoustic) by Fearless Vampire Killers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, F, G, E and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Am         F  
Here, not again  
G                G               E  
Tears hang in my throat I lose a breath  
    F      G       G  
And bow my head  
Am          F  
Her, still asleep  
  G                G          E  
Addictive like the moment of release  
               F         G  
A little dying makes you feel  



Am         F  
Fall, of a day  
    G                 G                E  
The touch of winter's chill has laid a claim  
            F         G  
My breath appearing a haze  
Am          Am  
Look to the sky  
    G              G             E  
The towers make me dizzy and the lights  
    Am   G   F 
Are hell fire  

  

       E            Am  
To the Merchants of decay  
     C           F  
Your eyes hold a darkness  
  G            Am                 F  
A love for the reckless hero's of our fear  
        E  
They're still here  


Am      Am             
Dead...And awake  
    F             G  
The cattle of the cardinal?  
   E           F       G  
Or people from which I take.  

Am                                          G   
Catching your eyes I can see you fantasise  
                              
Not alive but a ghost inside  
  E                  F               G          G F  
I take my leave and dance around the hillside  

        
Chorus  

Solo  

F         E            Am  
  To the Merchants of decay  
     C           F  
Your eyes hold a darkness  
  G            Am              F  
A love for the reckless hero's  
        G            E         
Light a fire here to say  
    C          F          G  
The love of an outcast is worth  
         C      G         Am  
All it's weight in golden pieces  
           F  
Build your fire high  
      E        Am 
We'll never die 
    	

Chord diagrams

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