"Masquerade" - Berlin (capo 1) Intro: B - A - Em - B - A - B Verse: B A The painted faces on the street, caricatures of long ago Em B Oh they were young and oh so sweet, down beyond the boulevard A Em Knock on doors and empty halls, and still sometimes remember B B The masquerade's forever (the masquerade's forever) Chorus: B A When you see the price they paid Em B A B(let ring) B(let ring) I'm sure you'll come and join the masquerade Verse: B A The reeling figures pass on by, like ghosts in some forgotten play Em B Beneath the black and empty sky, music plays and figures dance A Em With partners chosen by chance, and still some times remember B B The masquerade's forever (the masquerade's forever) Bridge: D C G B A They reached for tomorrow, but tomorrow's, more of the same D C G B A A/E So they reached for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came Chorus: B A When you hear the price they paid Em B A I'm sure you'll come and join the masquerade B A When you hear the price they paid Em B A B(let ring) B(let ring) I'm sure you'll come and join the masquerade Verse: B A One by one and two by two, past eight by tens in shattered frames Em B The players try to leave the room, frantic puppets on a string A Em And all the while the music sings, and still sometimes remember B B The masquerade's forever (the masquerade's forever) Chorus: (repeat as desired) B A When you hear the price they paid Em B A I'm sure you'll come and join the masquerade B A When you hear the price they paid Em B A I'm sure you'll come and join the masquerade B A When you hear the price they paid Em B A I'm sure you'll come and join the masquerade B A When you hear the price they paid Em B A B(let ring) I'm sure you'll come and join the masquerade A/E Chord: e----- B----- G--2-- D--2-- A--2-- E--0--
About the artist behind Masquerade Chords:
Vintage Berlin School tracks typically ran about twenty or thirty minutes, filling one side of a vinyl LP. The genre was so thoroughly identified with the long form that a general shift to shorter pieces in the 1980s seemed to herald the death of the movement. After the coming of the compact disc "retro" artists were no longer limited by the need to flip over a vinyl record. Some newer works run continuously as a single track for almost 80 minutes.
An outgrowth of Krautrock, Berlin School was so named because most of its early practitioners were based out of Berlin, Germany. The genre's identification with space music made it distinct from the more percussive and rhythm-oriented Düsseldorf School which included Can, Cluster, Kraftwerk, and Neu!.
Berlin School was and still is a relatively self-contained style that has not had nearly the impact on music in general that Kraftwerk has had on synth pop and techno, but ambient, electronica, New Age, and trance are partially rooted in Berlin School. The genre is sometimes considered a sub-branch of New Age or ambient, though it predates the widespread usage of both terms.
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