Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Long Dark Night (Guitar)

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[Verse]
G
I was long inside a dream, I could not get loose

G                                               Em
I will tell you of it, although there is little use

Em        D                       G
To tell a dream, when dreaming is all you ever do

G                                             
But things were not so good, that I can't make light of it

G
My poor soul, it was having a dark night of it

Em                     D             G
It was a long night, a week, maybe a year
[Chorus]
Em      D                  G
Maybe a long dark night is coming down

Em      D                  G
Maybe a long dark night is coming down
[Verse]
G
Through the door of my dream burst

G                                         Em
No zombie, no ogre, no devil there, but a flying man

D         G
With long trailing hair

G                                                                        Em
Who perched upon the iron rail of my bed, oh Lord combing his long white hair

Em            D
And saying my name

G
How could he know, when I did not even know my name?
[Chorus]
Em      D                  G
Maybe a long dark night is coming down

Em      D                  G
Maybe a long dark night, my precious one

Em      D               G                 Em
Maybe a long dark night rolling around my eyes

C       D
Oh, Lord
[Verse]
G
The man who took me to be from elsewhere

G
When I too inhabited the earthly sphere lent down and

Em        D             G
Struck me with his long trailing hair
[Chorus]
Em      D                  G
Maybe a long dark night is coming down

Em      D                  G
Maybe a long dark night, my precious one

Em      D                  G                 Em
Maybe a long dark night is rolling around my head

C       D
Oh, Lord
[Outro] G Em D G