Bright Dead Star - Current 93, guitar chords

Published: 2024-01-29 18:26
Selection chords: Ethan Cooper

Am                 Em
A hummingbird sings but soon comes
Am                 Em
Bye bye blackbird, a harsh night
        G
And I read in the tea leaves
      C
And scan in the stars
  G
Mark the trails of moths
G                 Am        Em
The light shall leave you all

Am                         Em
Excuse me, that voice that falls from stone
Am                            Em
Perhaps it was the word saying a word
G                           C
Speak that word whilst the sea falls
         G
And moths swarm and clouds call
Am                      Em
The light is leaving us all

Am
Spring is coming, so they said
Em
Spring is moving
Am                 Em
In the whirlpools, and the moon is as full
G                    C
As the sea is as deep and in the clouds
G                          Am                 Em
The shadows creep and the light is leaving us all

Am
Sweeping down like foxes
Em
Who have heard in the dust
Am                                   Em
The news travels hard from heart to dark
G                          C
Rumours of war hung softly and on their paws
C
Black rolls, the chariot
G
Over the plains and waves
Am                       Em
The light is leaving us all

Am
In other faces
Em
The eyes twitch and switch
Am
Back and forth, King fall, Queen fall
Em
Silence shouts
G
Shut lock, shut door, shut lights out
C
Trees fall, a taste of your face
G
Our first kiss said
Am                       Em
"The light is leaving us all"

Am
Under which star shone that
Em
You sang which sky is that
Am
He sang and pointed north and south
Em
I see you didnʼt see
G
Bright dead star fallen
C
You looked east and west and
G
The birds sang so sweetly
Am                       Em
The light is leaving us all

Am
So suddenly nothing was you
Em                            Am
Your hair so fair, I recall so well still
               Em
And then the light left you quite
G
I dreamt I lived on a hill
C
In that dream where the real
G
Is just dots on my lap
Am                      Em
The light is leaving us all