Standard tuning, Capo placed on the 4th fret. Chord names are inexact. Tabs are relative to capo.
Chords used in this song:
G G1 G2 G^ C
D7 Am7 Bb
-3-----3---3---0---0---2---0---3---
-3-----3---3---0---1---1---1---3---
-0---0h2---0---0---0---2---0---3---
-0-----0-0h2---0---2---0---2---3---
-2-----0---2---3-------0---1---1---
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Intro:
G G1 G2 G C G^ D7 (twice)
G
G2
The city gates at twilight and a red ship sinking
C
G^ D7
behind winter's grey wall,
G
G2
ice in the wind but a fire's in the embers
C
G^ Am7
of my heart as darkness falls,
G
G2
in a candlelit room where your eyes are laughing
C2
G^ D7
smoking in the red chair,
G
G2
and nothing in the world 'cept the beating of my heart
C
Am7 G G1 G2 C D7
against the nerves of the air,
G
G2
And I know there's a light at the end of the tunnel
C
G^ D7
'cause I taste it on your lips,
G
G2
and I feel a weight that can bend me double,
C
G^ Am7
you lift it with your fingertips,
G G1
G
G2
so often it happens that words prove useless
C
G^ D7
in the face of how it feels,
G
G1
G2
so it is as the mystery of love keeps growing
C
D7 G
the more my heart reveals,
G C D7 (twice)
G
Temptations endless whispers try to keep it in perspective
C G^
D7
so much to distract
G
G1
G2
walking on a wire while your juggling desire
C
G^ D7
it's all part of this balancing act
G G1
G2
and it gets hard to know just what you believe
C
G^ D7
as the argument rages on
G
G1
G2
but for all of the talk it's only true to say
C
D7 G
that if you have no hope there is none.
(musical interlude) Bb G Bb G Bb G C D7 G
G
A tangle of tongues flesh flowers and thistles
C
G^ D7
of conscience, spittle and skin,
G
we can't change the past so we'll raise this cup
C
G^ D7
to our lips and drink it all in,
G
and meantime back in civilisation
C
G^ D7
the rain is cold as steel
G
G2
but the mystery of love it just keep growing
C
D7 G
the more my heart reveals.....bridge it bridge it
(musical interlude) Bb G Bb G Bb G C D7 G
G
As sure as the rose the bright day blooms
C
G^ D7
as surely still it fades,
G
G2
and the night kindles stars on empty winds
C
G^ D7
and ghosts along the collonades,
G
G2
and slow but sure the sands are falling
C
G^ D7
as the bridge burns beneath the wheel,
G
and the mystery of love it just keeps growing
C
D7 G
the more my heart reveals,
C
D7 G
the more my heart reveals....just let it sail
C
D7 G
let that candle burn