F#m E D A Welcome to this wonderworld E A Everybody take your sledges F#m E D A Winterland Plutocracy E A Down the slope don't fear the hedges A C G Everybody in their box F G Waiting under rights of action A C G Raise your heads and hold your breath F G I can't stand your putrefaction A C G I can smell your brain decay F G As you look down at the stage and A C G Drive me mad and then insane Am C G Am Welcome to the show F#m You've been waiting for the one D A E To bring you joy and ecstasy F#m And you've been waiting for a song D A E And you demand to feel the tragedy A E F#m But when it's right out of control D And it's not your song anymore A And you are ready to forget E The truth that you'd been asking for F#m D I'm not afraid to sacrifice E And I don't care bout your advice Bm B As I spread my wings and fly A C#m A No love - it's pain you've come to feed E B In mental strain I crawl and bleed You make me please Am G C Forever roaming G Am You will hear it scream F G The cries of Speedhoven Am G C Forever roaming G Am Every starless night E You will hear the cries F#m You'll never get: A D E I'll never be the one that you want me to be F#m D And all the treasures that you hold E All your diamond rings and gold All your flake and look and tongue A E F#m I have tried and it was wrong D F#m You tried to push me up a notch D E But all I made was an itchy crotch Fornication, ass galore A E F#m I wanted love and I want more D F#m Muckrakers waiting for the prey D E Muckrakers want me to obey But you will never own me B Though you pay A C#m This opera is haunted they will say A C#m B That's where they've driven the light insane Am G C Forever roaming G Am You will hear it scream F G The cries of Speedhoven Am G C Forever roaming G Am Every starless night E You will hear the cries Am G C Forever roaming G Am You will hear it scream F G The cries of Speedhoven Am G C G F Forever you'll hear it scream Am E La-la-la-la... A D A E F#m D In a cold winter night I had a vision A Taking me by my hand E Leading me to the door F#m To rescue me from the wastelands C#m D The glance of the shining ivories A A world that they can't understand E Out of sound, out of reason F#m The voice of their laughter was gone D A Taken away, time for a change E I'm walking over F#m D Flying away, flying away A Dying into another world E Pure and divine F#m And the laughter dies F#m E F#m E D A E F#m E F#m E D A E F#m D A E F#m E D A Welcome to this wonderworld E A Everybody take your sledges F#m E D A Winterland Plutocracy E A Down the slope don't fear the hedges Am G C Forever roaming G Am You will hear it scream F G The cries of Speedhoven Am G C Forever roaming G Am Every starless night E You will hear the cries Am G C Forever roaming G Am You will hear it scream F G The cries of Speedhoven Am G C G F Forever you'll hear it scream Am E La-la-la-la... F#m E F#m E D A E F#m