Sonata Arctica - Caleb
This IS NOT based on a
recording/performance!!
Standard Tuning, Capo 2, 4, 5 & 6 (where indicated)
CAPO 4
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There is a man in this
You may know his tragedy,
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world, who has never smiled
the later years, by heart
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In the beginning, there was
A troubled little silent
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a mother, a father, and a
boy, whose life they worked to
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child destroy
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Known to us from this day on
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by his father, Caleb..
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Em.. Bm.. C*.. Dadd11*
Em.. Bm.. C*.. Dadd11*
Am.. Bsus4.. C... Dadd11
Am.. Bsus4.. C... Dadd11
Em Bsus4
His mother came up with such a
C Dadd11
clever way to save the day with
Asus2
a little white lie
Em Bsus4
He thinks he missed the point
C
back then, but now he's grown
Dadd11 Asus2
to understand it, in a way
Em Bm
Father said "I'm sorry" only
C* Dadd11*
once, as I remember
Em Bm
The words were not meant to
C*
hurt, only destroy you, my
Dadd11*
stupid son
Am Bsus4
One person can make a
C Dadd11
difference, sometimes
Am
Just turn his head when the kid
Bsus4 C Dadd11
is still and has a weak neck
[NC]
Smiled at his funeral, "happy you're dead."
Em Bsus4 C
All his solutions, it seemed,
Dadd11 Asus2
were only problems in disguise
Em Bsus4 C
Glueing on his drinkin' face,
Dadd11 Asus2
got ready to erase another day
CAPO 2
Am F
Mother was yet confident,
Am F
although they had it
C
tight, taught her son
Dm E
At the end of every tunnel's a little light
Am
It wasn't a lie, it was her
F Am
hope, that everything would
F
be fine one day
C Dm
He can fulfill his every dream,
E
I'm happy as long as he's not
F G A E
..I hate it and fear can't face
it
F G
The child is not right, he's my
A E
greatest shame
F G
Go out, create thunder, and
A E
stand right under
F G
A
[CHANGE CAPO to 5 NOW]
That old apple tree where dead
snakes let him feed on those
Am F G
Lost hopes, all those kind
C C/B
words could hurt him even
Am
more, now
F G C
Somehow, lost one more way back
C/B
home
CAPO 4
Em Bsus4
Out on the lake, he rows
C
towards a monster he
Dadd11
should've been running
Asus2
away from, years ago
Em Bsus4
The past had made him blind to
C Dadd11
the way he'd turned the pain
Asus2
into a way of life
CAPO 2
Am F
Followed his father, tucked him
Am F
in, Caleb knows the trade
C Dm E
He's the portrait of a man his
Am
mother drew to hate forever
F
She was a beast, a deadly
Am F
saint, wrong in many ways
C Dm E
[CHANGE CAPO to 4 NOW]
Wanted to keep up the charade,
until the end waltzing together
(TIME CHANGE 6/8)
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Em
Over the hills, under the sea,
C
fighting the will, whole
Universe
G Am
Why does a man driving a hearse
B
live in fear, Gift and a Curse
F#m
Taking 'em out, taking 'em all,
D
shooting the wall, over and out
A Bm
When nothing moves, all's well,
C#
a decision he can find a way
F#m
to live with
D
...And dried up flowers are so beautiful
A Bm
And it applies to all things
C#
living, and dead
Em Bm C
For that I serve my time... in
D Em Bm C D A
my suite in Hell
Em.. Bsus4.. C.. Dadd11
Em.. Bsus4.. C.. Dadd11
Em.. Bsus4.. C.. Dadd11
Em.. Bsus4.. C.. Dadd11
CAPO 6
Em Bm C
Now I ring the bell to tell the
D
world
Em Bm
I'm ready when they bring out
C D
the soon to be dead against
Em
the wall
Bm C G Am B
Oooh.. This necessary evil has
Em Bm C G Am B
no heart
Em C
Flowers and people he will now enlace
G Am
A price he must pay serving a
B
cold ..whateverGod
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Dm.. Bb.. C.. F C Dm.. Bb.. C
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Em.. C.. D.. G D Em.. C.. D
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