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Follow You Into the Dark

originally by Death Cab for Cutie

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I’ll follow you into the dark - Death Cab for Cutie
Capo at 5 (or 4) - Chuck Pick, picking the high B string and letting it ring

Am/E  C/G  F  C->G/B->Am/E C/G  G
Am/E  C/G  E  Am->Am/G->F  Fm  C/G

Love of mine someday you will die,
C/G                  Am/E
but I'll be close behind; I'll follow you into the dark.
            F                         C/G          G
No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white,
   C/G                          Am/E
just our hands clasped so tight waiting for the hint of a spark.
               F                        C/G               G

If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied,
   Am/E              C/G            F             C    G/B
illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs.
  Am/E         C/G            G
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
   Am/E             C/G                E      Am     Am/G
then I'll follow you into the dark.
     F           Fm           C/G

In Catholic school, as vicious as Roman rule,
   C/G                            Am/E
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black.
         F                     C/G     G
And I held my tongue as she told me "Son, 
      C/G                   Am/E
fear is the heart of love". So I never went back.
            F                    C/G        G

If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied,
   Am/E              C/G            F             C    G/B
illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs.
  Am/E         C/G            G
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
   Am/E             C/G                E      Am     Am/G
then I'll follow you into the dark.
     F           Fm           C/G

You and me have seen everything to see
C/G                       Am/E
from Bangkok to Calgary, and the soles of our shoes
                F                C/G          G
are all worn down. The time for sleep is now
    C/G                         Am/E
but it's nothing to cry about 'cause we'll hold each other soon
                    F                      C/G             G
in the darkest of rooms.
       Am         F

If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied,
   Am/E              C/G            F             C    G/B
illuminate the "no"s on their vacancy signs.
  Am/E         C/G            G
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
   Am/E             C/G                E      Am     Am/G
then I'll follow you into the dark.
     F           Fm           C    G/B    Am
Then I'll follow you into the dark
     F           Fm           C/G

Transcribed by ear for my own playing — capos and voicings are what I use, not gospel. ← back to the music