Cuckold of Titan

 

Intro / verse

G                             D                             Am                         C

 

Chorus

G             G/F#     Em         C             G             G/F#     Em         C

G             G/F#     Em         C             Am                         C

G             D             Am                         G             D             Am

 

Bridge

Fm   C    Fm   C  G

 

a lit cigarette in your hand

an old coffee stain on your pad

you surveyed a deep horizon

from a throne inside your head 

from a lectern on a stage

from a peak far out of range

read the tablets on the mountain

wrote the words that filled the page

 

and you, you knew it was right

and you, you never gave up the fight

and you, you never lost track or sight

and that's good

so they made you

the cuckold of titan

 

one day they pulled a knife

like some unfaithful wife

and made somebody else their darling

just to complicate your life 

now the twain won't ever meet

but you cannot accept defeat

will a posthumous ambition

light a coal that warms your nights

 

tastes change, tastes change

 

just a pilgrim on the road

writing from a bed of gloom

while trophies and their tarnish

fill the walls inside your room

 

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