Darkness Descends chords by Laura Marling

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Verse 1
G 
D 
 (G major) You're holding bits of  (D major) styrofoam
G 
With your face painted on to your friends  (G major) 
D 
You listen to them  (D major) whine and moan
G 
About everything you can't under (G major) stand
A 
Can  (A major) I  just say I don't feel the light,
But darkness descends once
G 
more into my life  (G major) 
D 
And suddenly  (D major) we're

Verse 2
all alone
G 
In silence so I take a step  (G major) away
D 
I look up to the  (D major) falling snow
G 
As it makes its home upon my  (G major) face
A 
Well I  (A major) wouldn't want to ruin
something I couldn't save
The gap will keep us safe,
Bm 
the gap will keep us safe  (B minor) 

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Verse 3

Step away, get me when I'm

Interlude 1

down

Verse 4
D 
And suddenly I'm  (D major) five years old
G 
And I'm just so cold I want to  (G major) cry
D 
I haul up on my  (D major) gentlemen
Who have always been there
G 
in hard  (G major) times
A 
They're  (A major) just not like that man of mine
Bm 
Who visits me from time to time  (B minor) 

Verse 5

My love, I treasure you

Verse 6
Em 
A 
G 
 (E minor) I    (A major)  (G major) hear that summer
D 
 (D major) s  coming back
G 
So I stretch out my back and travel  (G major) on
D 
The winter though it  (D major) darkens me
G 
It is pure and clean and all I  (G major) want
A 
Ill apologise  (A major) to the ones I love
For leaving them when the sun
Bm 
comes up  (B minor) 

Verse 7
A 
Bm 
A 
Too  (A major) bright for me,  (B minor) darkens  (A major) descends
Em 
G 
A 
G 
A 
Em 
G 
A 
 (E minor) Oh   (G major)  (A major)  (G major)  (A major)  (E minor) well  (G major) I'm not  (A major) well again
Em 
A 
and  (E minor) once more darkness  (A major) it descends
Em 
G 
A 
The  (E minor) ground is falling  (G major) un  (A major) der me
Em 
A 
And  (E minor) I   cant find the  (A major) means

Verse 8
to leave
G 
 (G major) 
D 
Convinced that I am  (D major) going mad
G 
Oh I bury my head into his  (G major) hands
D 
So sure that I am  (D major) losing faith
G 
Oh I clear a space in his father (G major) s  land
A 
You  (A major) deal with god far too young,
Before you know it your life has run away