Dark Places chords by The Gaslight Anthem

standard tuning


VERSE

      D
if i thought it would help i would drive this car into the sea


if the fire and smoke and explosions could speak for me

                             A                  Bm                      A
if the words that i used to try to explain how something inside of me started to break

         G             A
ah, but one by one my words just got in the way

D   A  G   A


 G                     A                 D
how many nights did i crash against the waves with my head going under

 G                   A                          D
how many days did i spend trying to see it your way, if you try you remember

   Bm                      A               G                           A              Bm
i changed and changed and kept on saying "one of these days something inside's gonna break"

        A                      G      A
and we won't get it back now, baby (something's gonna break)



CHORUS

      Bm                            A                      G      A
if i thought it would help i would carve your name into my heart

          Bm                            A                      G      A
and if i thought it would help i would carve your name into my heart

 D                        A                    Bm                     A
all of the things that i tried to explain how something inside of me started to break

         G                    A              D    A    G
we were living proof, one by one we drifted away

        A                   D    A    G    A
one by one we drifted away



VERSE 2

G                           A                             D
time after time there were things that would scare me to tears, while you called me haunted

G                   A             D
i paced around the bed where you laid

                          G           A
one of these days, baby, something? (something's gonna break)



CHORUS

      Bm                            A                       G       A
if i thought it would help i would carve your name into my heart

          Bm                            A                       G       A
and if i thought it would help i would carve your name into my heart

D                         A                    Bm                     A
all of the things that i tried to explain how something inside of me started to break

         G                    A
we were living proof, one by one we drifted away



BRIDGE

F#              G            Bm              A
?drifted away, drifted away? one by one and day by day

   G                      A                D
i became the dark in the places where you live


CHORUS

      Bm                            A                       G      A
if i thought it would help i would carve your name into my heart

          Bm                             A                      G      A
and if i thought it would help i would carve your name into my heart

D                         A                    Bm                     A
all of the things that i tried to explain how something inside of me started to break

         G                    A              D     A    G
we were living proof, one by one we drifted away

        A              D     A    G
one by one we drifted away

         G
we were living proof

        A              D
one by one we drifted away