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