Darkness Descends chords by
Laura Marling 
Key: D major•
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 under stand
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
Verse 3
A
Bm
A
Step away, get me when I'm
Interlude 1
down
Em
A
G
Em
G
A
G
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
A
Bm
A
My love, I treas ure you
Em
G
A
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 father s land
A
You deal with god far too young,
Before you know it your life has run away
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG D A Bm Em
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A
Bm
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