Darkness Descends chords by Laura Marling

SimplifiedG · D · A · Bm · Em

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

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

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Verse 3

Step away, get me when I'm

Interlude 1

down

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

Verse 5

My love, I treasure you

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

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

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