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🎸 Intro:
D F#m
D F#m Bm A
🎸 Verse 1:
D F#m
Sweet melancholy such a hungry beast
Bm A
Sleeps in total darkness and purrs like a machine
D F#m
Tell me that I’m pretty tell me you’ll never leave
Bm A
Nobody likes the lonely or perhaps they don’t like me
🎸 Chorus:
G Bm D Bm F#m
Sweet melancholy, take me back into your loving arms
G Bm D Bm
Sweet melancholy, take me back into your loving arms
🎸 Verse 2:
D F#m
It’s sweet irony that we are such good friends
Bm A
I thought that I’d escaped you but all good things can end
D F#m
I think you look a bit like Jesus, God bless the low and blue
Bm A
Nobody likes the lonely but I am tied to you
🎸 Chorus:
G Bm D Bm F#m
Sweet melancholy, take me back into your loving arms
G Bm D Bm
Sweet melancholy, take me back into your loving arms
🎸 Bridge:
Em Bm
God bless, the optimist
D F#m
Pink velvet, the madness
Em Bm
The hopeful and the ugly
D A
Alone. Again.
🎸 Chorus:
G Bm D Bm F#m
Sweet melancholy, take me back into your loving arms
G Bm D Bm
Sweet melancholy, take me back into your loving arms
🎸 Outro:
G F#m G
Song History
Published: September 13, 2021
Last Updated: September 10, 2025