Lunatic Moon
Words and music by Joe Ficklin


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That lunatic moon / Has fled her eastern citadel
     F              G               C
With regal splendor rising o’er the peaks
    F       G                Am   G   Am
And granite mountains cannot hold her still
    F                    G                 C       Em  Am
And they shall break themselves like waves against her will
     F      G          C
Like waves against her will

Am                C                 G
January moon / In winter robed with mist and flame
    F              G             C
Has ripped asunder all the timid clouds
   F       G      Am      G       Am
To claim anew her crystal kingdom high
    F              G    C           Em       Am
And I will fall forever through her spinning sky
   F    G                    C
Forever through her spinning sky

	  F      G         C                Am
	A shadow falls and she is draped in blood
	  F      G               C
	A shadow moves cathedral shafts of light
	F          G         C             Am
	My soul is lost now, swept away in flood
	    F                 G                C
	Her killing kiss will whisper welcomed night

Am                       C              G
Artemis now reigns / And man’s dominion is for naught
    F             G                 C
Her frozen bloody tears surround my heart
    F       G       Am       G     Am
The wolf is hunting down the river bed
    F                G            C   Em  Am
Her how! will herald in a moon of crimson red
F           G               C
Herald in a moon of crimson red

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And lunatic man / To risk this vengeful spiritess
    F                      G              C
And dance through shifting columns of her beam
     F   G     Am   G     Am
From purity to putrefying death
    F         G                C   Em       Am
You risk your mortal husk with her uncaring breath
     F      G          C
With her uncaring breath

	  F      G         C                Am
	A shadow falls and she is draped in blood
	  F      G               C
	A shadow moves cathedral shafts of light
	F          G         C             Am
	My soul is lost now, swept away in flood
	    F                 G                C
	Her killing kiss will whisper welcomed night

Am                      C                G
This lunatic moon / Too close she dances down the trees
    F               G                    C
And I can touch her outstretched arms if I
    F      G      Am     G    Am
But leap a little higher into space
    F          G                C    Em     Am
She smiles and almost hides the pity on her face
          F    G      C
Hides the pity on her face

Am                C            G
January moon / As shadows play across her form
    F                 G               C
Where others may just see the eclipse pass
    F       G         Am          G       Am
And light replace the blood which she had worn
   F      G             C        Em      Am
My wolfen heart is cast away, my soul is torn
     F        G       C
Cast away, my soul is torn

	  F      G         C                Am
	A shadow falls and she is draped in blood
	  F      G               C
	A shadow moves cathedral shafts of light
	F          G         C             Am
	My soul is lost now, swept away in flood
	    F                 G                C
	Her killing kiss will whisper welcomed night