Tip the Velvet

angela740

Tip the Velvet

verse:
Em
Once while I lay sleeping
Bm
My spirit left the room
Em
And like a silkworm becomes a creature of flight
B
I rose above the gloom
Gm
I flew beyond the mountains
Dm
To a distant desert land
Gm
And there within a prison of stone
Bm
I took a stranger’s hand

And he whispered

Chorus with 2 overlapping voices
Bm
Tip the Velvet/ I felt him rise
Tip the Velvet/ into my dreams
Tip the Velvet/ and in the night
Tip the Velvet/ I heard the leopard scream

verse
Em
He told me of his story
And his refusal to be wed
His father the king had told him to find
A princess for his bed
His father had been angered
Whose wishes were denied
There would not be an heir for the king if his son
Refused to choose a bride
And he whispered
(repeat chorus)

verse

The demons of the desert
Came rising from the land
They had tasted the tears of a lonely man’s heart
Beneath the desert sand
They broke into the fortress
With a mighty storm of wind
And the demons disguised the prince to escape
Beneath a leopard skin
And he whispered
(repeat chorus)

verse

The storm obscured my vision
And I could not find the prince
After searching for him I found my way home
I haven’t seen him since
At night I hear him call me
Beyond the mountain streams
A man in the day, a leopard by night
He wanders through my dreams
And he whispers

chorus

Tip the Velvet/ I feel him rise
Tip the Velvet/ into my dreams
Tip the Velvet/ and in the night
Tip the Velvet/ I hear the leopard scream

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