Poet chords by Bastille

Chords with lyrics

Poet
By Bastille     Capo 4

Intro (whistling): C#C# F# minorF#m E MajorE G+G FF Bb majorBb

C majorC         G+G    D MajorD
Obsession it takes control,
C majorC      FF  C majorC    G+G D MajorD
Obsession it eats me whole,
E minorEm       D MajorD     G+G
I can't say the words out loud,
E minorEm          D MajorD  C majorC
So in a rhyme I wrote you down,
              D MajorD  G+G
Now you'll live through the ages,
   C majorC           D MajorD    C majorC
I can feel your pulse in the pages.

Chorus:   G+G     D MajorD
     Whoa   Whoa oa
    C majorC     G+G
I have written you down,
    E minorEm      D MajorD
Now you will live forever,
  C majorC         G+G
And all the world will read you,
  E minorEm        D MajorD
And you will live forever,
  C majorC        E minorEm
In eyes not yet created,
  C majorC          G+G
On tongues that are not born,
    C majorC      G+G
I have written you down,
  E minorEm        D MajorD
Now you will live forever.

Whistling: E minorEm G+G E minorEm D MajorD
FF  C majorC         G+G    D MajorD
Your body lies upon the sheets,
C majorC    FF  C majorC       D MajorD
Of paper and words so sweet,
E minorEm    D MajorD   G+G
I can't say the words,
E minorEm       D MajorD    G+G
So I wrote you into my verse,
C majorC              D MajorD  G+G
Now you'll live through the ages,
   C majorC           D MajorD   C majorC
I can feel your pulse in the pages.

Chorus

C majorC
I have read her with these eyes,
   E minorEm
I've read her with these eyes,
    G+G           D MajorD
I have held her in these hands.

FF   C majorC       G+G
I have written you down,
  E minorEm        D MajorD
Now you will live forever,
  C majorC       G+G
The virtues in the verse,
  E minorEm
And you will live forever.

Chorus

Whistling: G+G D MajorD B minorBm E minorEm

BB          A augmentedA G+G
You will live forever

Tabbed and transposed by James Brockman, using Chordify