Laura Marling - Night After Night Chords & Tabs

 

Night After Night Chords & Tabs

Laura Marling Chords & Tabs

Version: 2 Type: Chords

Night After Night Chords

   
Dm
My darling, I loved you
  Bb
I long to become you
    A
And know what it is that you gave

Dm
We dance the sorrow
   Bb
Forgive me tomorrow

    F	            Gm
d|--------------|x2 ----------------|x2
A|--------------|   ----------------|
f|------4---4---|   -------5---5----|
D|------0---0---|   -------0---0----|
A|----0---0---0-|   ----0----0---0--|
D|--3-----------|   -5--------------|

      F                Gm                  F
And I pray night after night and day after day
                        Gm
Would you watch my body weaken

  Dm (Last Dm of verse only)
d|---------------------------|etc.
A|-----------------0---0-----|
f|-----0---0-------0---0-----|
D|-----0---0-----0---0---0---|
A|---0---0---0---------------|
D|-0-----------0-------------|
                   Dm
And my mind drift away?

Dm    Bb    A

Dm                 Bb                  A
Dear lover forsaken, our love is taken away
Dm                 Bb
You were my speaker, my innocence-keeper
  F                 Gm               F
I don't night after night, day after day
                        Gm
Would you watch my body weaken,
               Dm
My mind drift away?

Dm    Bb    A

Dear lover forgiven, my love is driven by rage
Oh I should just leave you, instead I've deceived you
But I don't, night after night, day after day
Would you watch my body weaken
my mind drift away?
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Dm                      Bb
I count to no one, hold nobody's ear
  A
I sold you my hand once and you hit me in fear
        Dm
I don't stand for the devil
        Bb
I don't whisper in ears
  F                          Gm             F    Gm     Dm
I stand on the mountains and call people to hear

   Dm/F	           Dm
d|-------------|x2-------------------|
A|-------------|  -------------------|
f|-------------|  -------------------|
D|-----0---0---|  ------0---0--------|
A|---0-0-0-0-0-|  ----0-0-0-0-0------|
D|-3-----------|  --0----------------|

Dm/F                   Dm                     Dm/F
It's a sudden burst of light, it's a fate foretold
      Dm             Dm/F     Dm
It is knowing, it is knowing

Dm    Bb    A

   Dm                        Bb
He longs for the answers, as all of us must
   A
He longs for the woman who will conquer his lust
   Dm                      Bb
He screams in the night, I scream in the day
   A
We weep in the evening and lie naked and pray

F           Gm               F
Night after night, day after day
            Gm               F
Night after night, day after day
                        Gm
Could you watch my body weaken,
                   Dm
and my mind drift away?


Dm/F                     Dm
It's a tempting communion
                Dm/F
It's a fate foretold
      Dm             Dm/F
It is knowing, it is knowing

    Dmsus4
   (play around with picking pattern, hammering 3 on the high d string)

  D5    D5+  D5  D5+  D5   D5+
What it is that you're told     Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm