The Stage

Avenged Sevenfold
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Updated: Mar 2026 Version: #1

(Intro)

[Em]…[Dm]-[C#m]-[C]

    [B]-[A#]-[Am]...[G#m]-[G]-[F]-[Em]Em C Am B (6x)

[Em] [C] [Am] [B]

[Em] [C] [Am] [D#]

[Em] [D#] [Em] [D#]

So I ar[Em]rived, naked and [D#]cold

A welcomed [Em]change from the abeyance

of a [D#]ghost town catacomb

[Em] No need for counsel

I ap[D#]preciate the time

I’m not a[Em]lone

[D#]

(Why don’t you get my lawyer on the phone)

There were [Em]days

these child [D#]eyes

Would over[Em]look

the ugliness and fan[D#]tasize

[Em] I found my heart

for the first [D#]time and I awakened in me

[Em] I left myself to navi[D#]gate

And oh I felt con[B]trol [B] [C] [C]-[B] [B] [C] [C]-[B]

(Chorus)

[Em]Who is the crowd

that [F]peers through the cage

As [Dm]we perform here.. u[B]pon the stage

(Intro)

[Em] [D#] [Em] [D#]

As the [Em]boy.. became a [D#]man

In came a [Em]calm sophistication

I can [D#]hardly understand

[Em] So lost in ego

Didn’t [D#]notice when the time

had a slipped a[Em]way

[D#]

(yeah, everybody’s got a sob story)

Jesus [Em]Christ.. was born to [D#]die

Leave it to [Em]man to levitate

his own to [D#]idolize

[Em] We’re simply sociopaths

with [D#]no communication baby

[Em] I see your angle

but we [D#]differ from our points

of [B]view[C] [C]-[B] [B] [C] [C]-[B]

(Chorus)

[Em]Who is the crowd

that [F]peers through the cage

As [Dm]we perform here.. u[B]pon the stage

[Em]Tell me a lie.. in a [F]beautiful way

I be[Dm]lieve in answers.. just [B]not today

(Interlude)

[Em] [F] [Dm] [B]

[Em] [F] [Dm] [B] [C] [C]-[B] [B] [C] [C]

[Em] [D] [G] [Am] [G] [D]

[Em] [D] [G] [Am] [G] [D]

[Em] [D] [G] [Am] [G] [D]

[Gm] [D#] [F] [D]

[Gm] [D#] [F] [D]

[Gm] Hope my wheels don’t abandon me [D#]now

Seein’ that I’m out here a[F]lone

I’m runnin’ out of [D]fight

[Gm] And the wind speaks a comforting [D#]voice

Guiding me to her [F]arms

Mother, I’m al[D]right

It took the [Gm]birth of sin to snake-rattle the mind

Before a [D#]blow to the head

By the gavel of time to [F]wake up

Won’t [D]you.. wake up..

When did the [Gm]walking apes decide that nuclear war

Was the [D#]only solution for them keeping the score

Just [F]wake up..

Can’t [D]you wake up..

(Intro)

[Em] [D#] [Em] [D#]

[Em] [D#] [Em] [D#]

[B] [C] [C]-[B] [B] [C] [C]

(Chorus)

[Em]Who is the crowd

that [F]peers through the cage

As [Dm]we perform here.. u[B]pon the stage

[Em]Tell me a lie.. in a [F]beautiful way

I be[Dm]lieve in answers.. just [B]not today

(Ending) [Em][F][Dm][B]

[Em] [F] [Dm] [B]

[Em] [F] [Dm] [B]

[Em] [F] [Dm] [B]

[Em] [F] [Dm] [B] [Em]