Heavenly Hoax
A Foreboding Fugue In Five Parts
by Jason Slajchert © 2019

1. Overture: Peregrination and Disorientation
Oooh... (Cm, G, Cm, G - Cm, G, Cm, G-Gm)

Cm G Cm A#
Moving through time, caught in the light
G/G# F G
Figuring I’m going home
Cm G Cm A#
Memories wiped, all but a slight
G/G# F G
Feeling that something’s not right

G(2) Gm(2) A#(1)
Carry me through-ooh winds of change
F(1) Cm(2) Dm
Is this really what happens when you say goodbye
Cm (2) F (1)
All my feelings rearranged
Cm (2) Dm (2) D7 (2) G
Have I really lost access to what I called my life


2. Departure and Reception
G C
It all happened so fast
A# A#/A Dm/F
One minute I was in it, and the next one I was
G
falling
G Cm
Down, into, a hole
A# A#/A Dm
A place where every shadow has been chased
G
away

G C
A feast, to wel-come me
A# A#/A F G
Another fresh injection into the neighborhood
G Cm
But first, let’s sanitize
A# A#/A Dm G
Reorient the body, manipulate the mind

D# G# Fm A#
Golden streets, if that’s what you require
Gm Cm D# G# A#sus
High vibrations, to keep you feeling safe
D# G# Fm A#
Digging deep, it’s so-oh difficult to stray-ee-ten
Gm F7
out my thoughts
G# G7 Cm
Am I dreaming, or am I now awake

G# Fm
Now here’s how they get you
G#m E7
Now here’s how they get you


3. Machination and Exploitation
(Staccato organ on beat 2)
G#m D#7 G#m
You’re empty, no concept of time
G#m D#7 G#m
An infant who’s finally unblind
G#m D#7 G#m
You’re impotent, you’re chasing a rabbit
G#m D#7 G#m
To go, to go into that magNET
G#m D#7 G#m
Don’t go—don’t go into that magNET!

G#m D#7 G#m
The light is the darkest of illusions
G#m D#7 G#m
Most everyone goes in without a riot
G#m G# A/A# A#7
Your grandmother, Maud—the apostle Paul
D#7 F# G#m
It all matters not, just as long as you buy it
D#7 G7
“Welcome home, my son!”


B(diss) G(diss) Gm, C#7
“You may now rest, dear one”
B(diss) G(diss) Gm
“Welcome home, my son”

G#m D#7 G#m D#7
Exactly what you have been expecting
G#m F#/G F#7 E/F
Exactly what you’ve been expecting

G#m D#7 G#m D#7
Rewarded according to ancient traditions
G#m D#7 G#m D#7
The path seems a bit like a movie
G#m G#/A A#7
A bad one, where nothing and everything’s
A#/B
moving
D#7 G# (C#7?)
The characters flat and amusing

G#6 G/G# Gm C#7
This is how they get you in...
G#7+6 G/G# Gm E7
This is how they trap your soul
(REPEAT)

G#m G#/A G#m, F#/G
“Welcome home, my son!”
(REPEAT)
Final: G#6, D#7, G#m

(Overture repeat and develop)
C#m, G# C#m, G#-G#6
C#m, G#m E, B
“Oooh...”


3.5. Synchronicity and Illumination
G#
Just then it hit me like whirlwind
F# G#m B
She’s not my mother, and you’re not my friend
F#/G Bm-A#/B
I won’t be going into paradise
F#7 D#7 G#
If you agree, then we’ll play nice

G#
My “mother’s” eyes blinked sideways
F# G#m B
Turning into marbles, like the morning sun
F#/G Bm-A#/B
There was no need for this charade
F#/G Bm
I won’t be watching this parade
F#7 C#m B
I won’t be watching this parade


G#m C#m
Hey man, this is where I get off
B7 B/C D#7 Em G#m
Trust me, I get it, trapping Consciousness and all
C#m
So that your batteries might stay charged
G#m
So that your factories might stay farmed

G# F#/G
This is how they get you in (small)
D#7 G#m
This is how they get you in (big)
F#/G E
This is how they get you in (bigger)

F# G#m
It’s just that I have been anticipating
B D#m G#m
Such an elaborate display, and so
G#7 C#m
This is exactly what it is
F#/G G#m
So, step the fuck away from my soul!

F# G#m
That lizard’s eyes blinked happily
B D#m G#m
As he tried to play it off so carefully
G#7 C#m
He said, “Oh, I think you’re right
F#/G G#m
It seems your paperwork wasn’t done right”


E
I was taken by force to a courtroom
F#
Allowed the show to continue on
F#/G
I pretended to comply
G#m
To surrender, and to cry

C#m
When it was finally time for me
B7 B/C D#7 Em G#m
To speak, I stood and silently C#m
Gm D#7
Reminded them Who I Am
C#m E
And that their trial was a goddamned sham

E
I didn’t have to even act the part
F#7 (open)
I just blasted them with fire from my holy
Heart
C#m
I’d never held any beliefs
B D#7 Em
Except that all beings should live free

F#7

E
This is how they get you in
F#7 B D#m E
This is probably how they trapped your kin

E
This is how they get you in
F#7 B D#7 E
This is probably how they trapped your kin


4. Liberation and Recreation
E B C#m F#
Free to be, whatever I wish to be
E B C#m F#
Free to go, wherever I wish to go
E B C#m F#
Free to be, whatever I wish to be
E B C#m F#
Free to go, wherever I wish to go

E B C#m-E
Maybe I’ll go back in, but now I’m...
(repeat “Free to be...”)

E
Maybe I’ll go back in
Imagine what I might do differently
Or travel far away
Or, maybe I’ll create my own world


5. Peroration and Contemplation
(Evolving Prelude)
G#m D#7 G#m
Guides lining up to assist me
G#m D#7 G#m
“No thank you, I’m good, don’t insist please”
G#m. G#7 C#m f#7
“You’re coming with me, don’t resist me...
D#7
I’m fucking with you, please continue on!”

[3/4]
E B
To... be... Love, is there anything higher
E C#m G#m-F#
Aren’t we all in the guts of the devil
E B
Begging our selves to know better
F#/G G#m
Making pure gold from base metals

E B
Mining the floor underneath me
E G#m-F#m
Biting my teeth just to See Me
E B
Experiencing experience
E B
Just for the sake of experience
E G#m
The good and the bad, just experience
E G#m
The taster just tasting experience
E B
Delicious, invaluable experience

E/F (Fdiss)
So easy to see
C#m D#7
That Home, all along
G#
Was in... Me