Marillion – Care (Guitar)

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from “An Hour Before It’s Dark” (2022) [I. Maintenance Drugs]
             A5
They give me maintenance drugs, said I’ll be okay

             A5
They give me maintenance drugs, they said I’d be okay

       A5
So I’m taking my time, living from day to day

A5
You gotta live

A5
No one knows how much time, no one knows how much time

A5                                                         Em A G F#m
No one knows how much time they’ve got left, n’est-ce pas?

Em    A                G    F#m
   An hour before it’s dark

             A5
They give me maintenance drugs, said I’ll be okay

             A5
They test me once a year, they test me once a year

A                   G
  You have to care,   you have to care

D                   C                  Bbmaj7 C Am G
  You have to care,   you have to care

       Bbmaj7 C                     Am    G
No one knows  how much time, no one knows how much time

       Bmaj7 C
No one knows

               Am       A                Em
They said I’ll be okay,   they said I’ll be okay

   A                G    F#m
An hour before it’s dark

               Em           A                G    F#m
They said I’ll be okay - an hour before it’s dark

      Am                D
An domhan - whether you like it or not

          G                D
When it’s gone, it’s gonna take you with it

     Am                D
This one - whether you like it or not

          G                D
When it’s gone, it’s gonna take you with it

      Am                D
An domhan - whether you like it or not

          G                D
When it’s gone, it’s gonna take you with it

     Am                D
This one - whether you like it or not

          G                D
When it’s gone, it’s gonna take you with it

           A                 G            F#m              Em
It’s gonna take you with it,   it’s gonna take you with it

           A                 G F#m                             Em Dm
It’s gonna take you with it,       it’s gonna take you with it
[II. An Hour Before It’s Dark]
   Dm
An hour before it’s dark

   Bbmaj7 Eb        Bbmaj7 Am
An hour before it’s dark

   Bbmaj7 Am        D
An hour before it’s dark

Bbmaj7                       Eb               Bbmaj7 Am Bbmaj7     Am D
These are the days that will flash before our eyes      at the end

Bmaj7                 Eb                     Bbmaj7 Am Bbmaj7        Am D
These are the moments burned into the sacred places    of our hearts

Bbmaj7                  Am            Bbmaj7 Eb
Thank you for making me truly, truly alive

                Bbmaj7     Am        D
In a life where luxury was sometimes to survive

Bbmaj7              Am              Bbmaj7         Eb
Under the weight of lost love, disillusionment and shame

    Bmaj7 Am       D
You came  warm and loved me like a tropical storm

             Bb              Bb Am Gm Dm
Spiralled me up into the air
[III. Every Cell]
Bb                                            Am   Gm            Dm
These are the days that will flash before our eyes    at the end

Bb                                          Am   Gm             Dm
Yours are the words that will whisper in my body    as it fades

Bb                                   Am           Gm           Dm
Yours is the laughter burned into my days locked away in every cell

  Bb      Am     Gm         Dm
I came, I saw, I fell and I changed

      Bb                     Am          Gm          Bb         Am Gm Dm
Found freedom in a diamond I won’t trade    not even for heaven
Bb Am Gm Bb Am Gm Dm Bb Am Gm Dm Bb Am Gm Ab Gm Fm Cm
Ab                     Gm
And as I unpeeled you,    you realised

    Fm                             C
You loved me enough to leave me forever
[IV. Angels On Earth] C/E F C G x5
    C/E                      F                   C        G
The angels in this world are not in the walls of churches

    C/E                      F                   C        G
The angels in this world are not in the walls of churches

    Am                       F                   C        G
The angels in this world are not in the walls of churches

    Em                       F                  C    G
The heroes in this world are not in the hall of fame

    C/E                      F                   C        G
The angels in this world are not in the walls of churches

C                   F
I saw a man paint a woman on the wall

C                 G
Mask on her face, screen over her eyes

C                  F
Hospital clothing, worried and exhausted

C                  G
A thing of beauty, a thing of care

F          G            Am             G/B
Pure class right there,    right there

    F                        G                   Am       G/B
The angels in this world are not in the walls of churches
Em F C G x2
    C                        F                   C        G
The angels in this world are not in the walls of churches

    C                            F                     C     G
The angels in this world are not rendered in bronze or stone

    F                     G                       Am       G/B
The heroes in this world, working while we’re all sleeping

C               F               C              G
She wrapped her arms around me, he wrapped his arms around me

C               F               C              G              Em F C G
She wrapped her arms around me, he wrapped his arms around me

   C/E                      F                     C    G
An angel here on earth came down here to carry me home

            C
To carry me home