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From kingfrog@ptd.net Sun May  4 09:56:14 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 23:52:08 -0800 (PST)
From: kingfrog@ptd.net
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: Edge of Thorns

Brian Pastor
kingfrog@postoffice.ptd.net



                           Edge of Thorns

                            by: Savatage

                   from the album "Edge of Thorns"



Attention guitar players:  Tune your low  E string to D for this song. The
 chords for the verses apply only to the piano player. You would just play a
 rythym in Dm.

 Piano intro: The second D in this scale is an ocative higher than the first D.
 

  D  (D)  D  A  D  G  D  F  D  E  D  F  D  F  E  C  D  


  The band kicks in once and awhile with a Dm


                

    Dm                 Am/Dm       Dm                             Am/Dm  
       An offering of reasons.          We  put  them  all   in    play.


    
    Dm                 Am/Dm       Dm                       Am/Dm         
       A covering of treasons.        That one by one we let slip away.


 Bridge:

    Gm               Dm              Gm                    Dm
        A solitary dancer.               So lost upon her stage.

 
  Chorus

    Bb         C                       Dm     C    Bb
    I  have   seen  you  on  the       Edge   of   Dawn

              C                        Dm   C      Bb
    Felt you here before               you  were   born

                    C                   Dm     C    Bb
    Balanced your dreams upon the       Edge   of   Thorns

                                      Dm
    But I don't think about you any-more. 



  Verse 2

    Dm                    Am/Dm         Dm                 Am/Dm
        A study made from winter.           Of summers long ago.    

    Dm                          Am/Dm                          Dm
        And dreams that use to glitter safely now hidden under snow. 
 

  Bridge:

 
     Gm                     Dm        Gm                            Dm
        And so we end the chapter.         And let the stage lights fade.


                        (Repeat chorus)


 Guitar riff:   D  A  G  F  E  E  F  E D  (8x)


 This is the pattern behind the first solo:   C   Am  C  Dm   (4x)

 Then it goes back to Dm for the bass riff. When the drums kick in the notes
 are:
      D   E   F   E   (if you want to play chords instead use  Dm  Em  F  Em )


    Coming out of the solo the guitar and bass play:


      A  G  F  E  (3x)   The fourth pattern is:    A  G  F  E  A   (Then Dm)
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   Repeat the chorus and then go back into the  Dm   Am/Dm   pattern  used
   for the verses. Zach sings over this pattern:

        "I don't think about you...I don't think about you" etc...

                         Anymore!       


         Repeat piano intro and end the song in Dm