Original Sin
Music By Elton John
Lyrics By Bernie Taupin
© 2001 Happenstance Limited/Wretched Music
Transcribed by Darren Crosby

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Oh, it’s carnival night

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And they’re stringing the lights around you

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Hanging paper angels

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Painting little devils on the roof


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Oh the furnace wind

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Is a flickering of wings about your face

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In a cloud of incense

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Yea, it smells like Heaven in this place



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I can’t eat, can’t sleep

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Still I hunger for you when you look at me

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That face, those eyes

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All the sinful pleasures deep inside



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Tell me how, you know now, the ways and means of getting in

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Underneath my skin,

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Oh you were always my original sin

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And tell me why, I shudder inside, every time we begin

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This dangerous game

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Oh you were always my original sin


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(Same as verse 1)
A dream will fly
The moment that you open up your eyes
A dream is just a riddle
Ghosts from every corner of your life


(Same as verse 2)
Up in the balcony
All the Romeo’s are bleeding for your hand
Blowing theater kisses
Reciting lines they don’t understand

I can’t eat, can’t sleep
Still I hunger for you when you look at me
That face, those eyes
All the sinful pleasures deep inside

Tell me how, you know now, the ways and means of getting in
Underneath my skin, 
Oh you were always my original sin
And tell me why, I shudder inside, every time we begin 
This dangerous game

                      Ab                       Bbm  Ab (Repeat Chorus)
Oh you were always my original sin

Tell me how, you know now, the ways and means of getting in
Underneath my skin, 
Oh you were always my original sin
And tell me why, I shudder inside, every time we begin 
This dangerous game

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Oh you were always my original sin

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Db Ebm7 Db Db/Ab (Strings fade out)