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Follow You Into the Dark
originally by Death Cab for Cutie
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
