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Intro:
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Csus4 C Csus4 C Bb Am
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Verse: ( strum freely, this is just a rough guide... )
Csus2 C F/C Fadd2/C
' Dark - ness, you are my Priestess... '
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Csus2 C F/C Fadd2/C
' Dark - ness, you are my pride... '
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Am G F Dm
' My Knight in shining armour, Disarmer of every tide... that... '
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Am G F Dm
' swept the beaches clean of starfish, a death-wish to my kind... '
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Em F G
' Helpless, heedless, selfish, needless to say, it's no surprise, you're... '
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Csus4 C Cadd2 C G5
' with me most every night... you're... '
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Csus4 C Cadd2 C G5
' with me most every night... '
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Instrumental section:
F#sus4 F#
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C# Dm
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Repeat verse, more or less the same:
Darkness, you are my true love
Darkness, you are my bride
My consummated passion, no fashionable disguise
A sleeping kiss and my demon twin lays dreaming by my side
Screaming, grinning,
Beating pinioned wings against the skies...
Csus4 C Cadd2 C G5
' I sail with you most every night... '
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F#sus4 F#
' I know the truth, the secrets of a soul, I know, I know, but no-one... '
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C# Dm
' listens no, no-one hears... '
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F#sus4 F#
'I've seen the light, the poets bright and distant mirror, they are... '
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C# F#
' searching there I have seen them there, and they are... '
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C# F#
' searching there for I have travelled there and they are... '
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C# Bb
' searching there for a home... '
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Words & Music by Bill Nelson