The Intake Room
Transpose
INTRO
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Look! – See the shadows that cover the floor
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I no longer mind – I barely see them at
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all
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And not the blood between my
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feet
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Marks of transformers which hung from the walls
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Power mad – great massive things
My
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hands, numb and blue-black, tied behind back
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Nara says she is sorry and
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smiles
Db7/F
How she took on all comers
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How good value was shown
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Debts she had
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Cash and blood
C/G
She
regrets
Fm
The upset
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Am7
Now the evening’s growing
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ancient, and the light is amber
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red
And the city’s tense and
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silent, and the city wants me
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dead
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And I hear some children’s
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voices in an echo up the
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hill
Angry like a
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guard dog, questioning,
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shrill
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C
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G
Em
Dm
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“Now, do you know what must happen?” she says
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Nods, hook dangling there, sharpened, “a painless e
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scape”
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She coaxes, sweet, “Take this re
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lease”
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Ebm/A#
He looks at the hook,
Ebm
then back, and she’s gone
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His hands are free, he stands and
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faces the hook
Reaches his
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arms out, either side of him
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And feels a breeze behind him
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And the supporting shoulder under each hand
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Raising him into the
Ab
air
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Ab
C#maj7
Ab
Fm6/D
Eb
Bb
Fm
Still he rises, comes to rest just above the hook
He rests the cold metal in the hollow of his collarbone
The point of the hook is sharp
The hook is heavy and
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certain
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Ab
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Bb5
One, two, three
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The arms are unsupported now
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The arms are out in empty space
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The hook is tearing its way up inside the neck
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The floor beneath is splashing red
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The legs are jerking
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Don’t let the legs move! but the legs are jerking
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Don’t let the legs move! but the legs are jerking
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Out! Out! Out! Out!
And then they hang
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still (“… still … still …”)
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