Ab           Db     Eb
Ghost in the moonlight
Db         Ab         Db
Throw your veil upon these grounds
Ab    Db            Eb
Cold! The night is star-bright
Ab         Eb              Db
Pale is all beauty of your gown

Ab    Db      Eb
Dark, frame a fire
Db      Eb   Db    Eb    Db
Mystery of a blood red rose
Ab  Db           Eb
Dark, shine sapphire
Db        Eb             Db
You won't leave me on my own

( Ab )

Fm                       Db
Raised my head above the haze
               Ab
I woke up to a world
              Eb
I feel almost humanized
Fm                Db
Tender loving all around
             Ab
Apparently profound
                       Eb
Through self-deceitful eyes

Cm                       Fm
Now what am I supposed to be
Db                Ab
For sure it can't be me
           Eb
In orderly array
Db                  Fm
My, it's feeling so unreal
                   Eb
How daunting to be free
Cm              Db
In the light of day
Abm     Bbm
Lost in this world
Fm              Gb  Ab
With no place to go

Ab                                             Bb
Awaiting the night to yell a prayer up to the starlight
Cm      Ab                Bb
Veiling boon, ghost in the moon
         Ab
Grant me admission tonight
                    Cm          Bb
Into your tenebrous wicked star-bright
Gm     Cm     Ab           Bb
Golden gloom, ghost in the moon

( Db  Fm )

Fm                         Db
Whispers sounding from the brake
                        Ab
Sinister eyes along the way
                              Eb
A phantom rushing through the night
Fm                         Db
Making haste, run from the dawn
                Ab
Back across the Rubicon
                        Eb
To the shelter from the light

Cm                      Fm
Before the sun is gonna rise
     Db
To reflect it in their eyes
Ab                     Eb
A sight no one's gonna stand
Db                     Fm
Oh your blood is gonna freeze
                   Eb
Different blood, a different breed
Cm                   Db
No one's gonna comprehend

Db   Ab        Bbm
They teach you love
     Db       Gb  Ab
They make you belong
Gb
Suck you in to spit you out
            Ab
The rage is on

Eb                           Ab                Bb
Awaiting the night to yell a prayer up to the starlight
Gm      Cm    Ab           Bb
Veiling boon, ghost in the moon
Cm       Ab
Grant me admission tonight
Cm                              Bb
Into your tenebrous wicked star-bright
Gm     Cm
Golden gloom
Ab           Bb
Ghost in the moon

Ab             Bb
Like a rushing thunder
                      Cm
You're a shade in the swampland
Ab                        Bb              Cm
And a Trojan horse they'd rowel into your dreams
Ab                  Fm
They chase you into dawn
                   Cm
To a silken bed of quicksand
Fm                        Ab
Rush, so you can breathe, they'll give you up
                        Db
You're in my world past remedy

Fm      Eb
Asking, wondering, look at me
Ab       Db
Waiting, prompting
                  Eb
I may be drawn to something
        Ab
That I can't phrase for you
     Db
Even though it’s true
Fm         Eb                Ab
I won't be what they long to see in me
Db            Fm       Eb
No matter how desperately
Ab
They reach out for me
Db
A sedating hand
Fm
They don't understand
Eb
I don't comprehend
Ab
I can't take no more
Db               Fm
Of their shallow light
Burning me inside
                                    Eb
Then I am better off a scorn in the night

( Bb  Eb  Gm  Fm )

  Bb              Eb
I am rumour, I am nightmare
     Gm                 F
That I'm bound to dream myself
Bb                  Eb
Half human and it's frightening
  Gm                  F
To just guess the other half
Bb                 Eb
I'm a misfit on a journey
Gm                 F
And I'm afraid my destiny
Bb                              Eb
Has been sealed right from the outset
  Gm             F
To immure the real me
Bb                Eb    Gm
I'll wane in this world
     F                     Eb
Just me and the glow of the moon
     F
Yeah wow

Bbm                  Fm                      Eb
For the chill of the night is gonna summon a fire
Bbm               Fm                        Eb
A strange world on the brink, or a maniacal dream?
Bbm         Fm                     Eb
Dead matter alive, heart, soul and desire
Eb
Rise from the smoke and the fire
Eb
From maniacal dreams
Eb
Crucible-born and unseen
Eb
Megalo-maniacal dream
Eb
Megalo-maniacal dream

( Eb )

             Ab           Db
To chase the ghost in the moonglow
Eb                       Db
Throw your gown upon the light
Ab  Db                Eb
Ghost in the moonglow
Db               Eb       Db
Whisper from the starlit skies

Bb   Eb          F
Dark frame a fire
 Eb          F         Eb   Bb
Mystery of a blood red rose
Eb                F
Moon spark a fire
Eb                       Bb
You won't leave me on my own

[Outro] Eb  Bb  Eb