Chords with lyrics
- Capo on 1st
- Difficulty: Intermediate
Key: 
BbmBbm
🎸 Intro:
N.C.
I’ll keep the king
N.C.
When you are gone away
N.C.
Into darkness and howling I’ll keep him from drowning
N.C.
As our boat is untethered from the dock
Plucking:
A minorAm
I’ll keep the king
Dsus2/A
Keep him safe at bay
D/AD/A
I’ll keep him safe from the dark things that wait
DmDm 
Dsus2Dsus2 N.C.
In that house at the top of the rock
A minorAm (+ strum)
In that house at the top of the rock
🎸 Verse:
D MajorD 
C majorC A minorAm
There’ve been times I know
D MajorD C majorC A minorAm
I’ll stand up up up at the bow
D MajorD C majorC
And the waves of our bodies and the smell of our follies
A minorAm
Rips into the bark of my bones
D MajorD C majorC A minorAm
You fumble through the dark
D MajorD C majorC A minorAm
However wide and deep and far my dear
D MajorD C majorC
The waves made of fingers and the madness that lingers
A minorAm
Rips into the bark of our bones
🎸 Pre-Chorus:
FF 
G+G
And let the sea birds cry
FF G+G
I’ll let the sea birds cry
🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm
I’ll keep the king
G+G
I’ll keep the king
D MajorD
I’ll keep him safe from the dark things that wait
DmDm A minorAm
In that house at the top of the rock
🎸 Verse:
A minorAm
I’ll smile as I climb the stairs (to the light)
D MajorD C majorC A minorAm
To the light that you keep burning there (all hell)
D MajorD C majorC
And our muscles that are waltzing and our shadows that are bold sing
A minorAm
Come rip up the flesh of my fears
D MajorD C majorC A minorAm
I know your fingernails are the colour of rust (come back)
D MajorD C majorC A minorAm
And your veins are empty of dust (but our voices)
D MajorD C majorC A minorAm
But our voices collide with each howl of the tide
G+G 
D/F#D/F# A minorAm
Singing all hell and its fire waits for us
🎸 Pre-Chorus:
FF G+G
And let the sea birds cry
FF G+G
I’ll let the sea birds cry
🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm
I’ll keep the king
G+G
I’ll keep the king
D MajorD
I’ll keep him safe from the dark things that wait
DmDm A minorAm
In that house at the top of the rock
🎸 Pre-Chorus:
FF G+G
And let the sea birds cry
FF G+G
I’ll let the sea birds cry
🎸 Bridge:
FF G+G
The wind and its shackles, the old fishers tackles
F/AF/A 
G/BG/B
The sea and its waters, every unwanted daughter
FF
Every moon in the sky
G+G
Every promise and lie
F/AF/A
All hell
N.C.
And it’s fire
Waits for us
🎸 Chorus:
A minorAm
I’ll keep the king
G+G
I’ll keep the king
D MajorD
I’ll keep him safe from the dark things that wait
DmDm
In that house at the top of, in our house at the top of
A minorAm
I’ll keep the king
G+G
I’ll keep the king
D MajorD
I’ll keep him safe from the dark things that wait
DmDm
In that house at the top
A minorAm
of the rock
