A Passion Play(Chords)

	        Em  
Hail! Son of kings /  
D  
make the ever-dying sign /  
C              D           Em      G              Bm F#m Bm  
cross your fingers in the sky for those about to BE.  
F          Bb        C         D  
There am I waiting along the sand.  
C           F       G           D    G   D   Em  
Cast your sweet spell upon the land and sea.  
 
(same)  
Magus Perde, take your hand from off the chain.  
Loose a wish to still / the rain / the storm about to BE.  
Here am I (voyager into life).  
Tough are the soles that tread the knife's edge.  
 
Em                  D       G   D      Em            C F B  
Break the circle / stretch the line / call upon the devil.  
Em                  D       G   D             A     G   D  
Bring the gods / the gods' own fire.In the conflict revel.  
 
B                      D   B     A          B      D  B   A  
The passengers / upon the ferry crossing / waiting to be born /  
  B               D   B     A                 B        D  B   A  
renew the pledge of life's long song / rise to the reveille horn.  
 
E               G  E        D        E       G  E        D  
Animals / queueing at the gate that stands upon the shore /  
E              G  E     D             E       G  E  A   G  
breathe the ever-burning fire that guards the ever-door.  
 
(SAME)  
Man / son of man / buy the flame of ever-life (yours to breathe and  
breath the pain of living): living BE!  
Here am I!  
Roll the stone away from the dark into ever-day.  
   
 

	        

Written by Ian Anderson