The Moonflower Society Chords & Tabs

by Avantasia

[Intro]
Dm C F C
Dm C Gm F Dm
Dm C F C
Dm C Gm F Dm

[Verse 1]
D                                
Twilight falls, ghostly the hands
                   Bb 
That reach out for you
D                                    
Through the mist of these alien lands
A         Bb          F       C      
Swallowed away on the road to forever
D                                 
Like a storm the wraith of advance
D                       
Forced its will upon you
Sacred yesterdays, lucid and vast
A                Bb      F      C       
Blink of an eye it's all coming together
Bb                                
Like a relic of a long bygone time
G                                          C
Moonflowers grow from the back of your mind
A                                 
Hold on, yeah  (Fire in the night)

[Chorus]
Bm            G              Bm       
I see ghosts, spectres light around me
D                                   
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Em               
Fire in the night
Bm          G               Bm      
One by one, pictures gather round me
G           A           G    A      
Where those moonflowers used to grow
D                                       
Lost no more, spectres gather round here
Bm               A                  GA
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Bm              G              Bm   
Night by night, stare into the black
Em  F#m     Gm   Bm Am  
Moonflowers used to grow

[Verse 2]
D                         
As I walk through the mist
                         Bb             
Down the ruins of things that used to be
D                               
Silent remnants of magical times
A            Bb         
A cabinet of curiosities
D                                       
Old companions and past Christmas ghosts
A            Bb
Juvenile levity
D                                  
Sacred gatherings, pictures of days
A         Bb          F       C      
Swallowed away on the road to forever
Bb                             
A covert society buried in time
G                    
Once bent on survival
Now kicked out of line
A                                   
Oh, I hold on  (A fire in the night)

[Chorus]
Bm            G              Bm       
I see ghosts, spectres light around me
D                                   
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Em               
Fire in the night
Bm          G               Bm      
One by one, pictures gather round me
G           A           G    A      
Where those moonflowers used to grow
D                                       
Lost no more, spectres gather round here
Bm               A                  GA
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Bm              G              Bm   
Night by night, stare into the black
Em  F#m     Gm   Bm Am  
Moonflowers used to grow

[Bridge]
Guitar starts 2:29
G Em C D
G Em C D
A                 
And quite suddenly
           G                        
Just as if somebody slammed the door
Bb           F                     
Halcyon days buried in halcyon lore
D                  
As silence prevails
C                           
Fragments come passing me by
               Bb     
Slipping right through
          A                               
A crevice in time, oh  (Fire in the night)

[Chorus]
Bm            G              Bm       
I see ghosts, spectres light around me
D                                   
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Em               
Fire in the night
Bm          G               Bm      
One by one, pictures gather round me
G           A           G    A      
Where those moonflowers used to grow
D                                       
Lost no more, spectres gather round here
Bm               A                  GA
Vivid and stark, a blaze in the dark
Bm              G              Bm   
Night by night, stare into the black
Em  F#m     Gm   Bm Am  
Moonflowers used to grow

[Outro]
Em F#m Gm Bm Am