Dark And Velvet Nights Chords

🎸 Intro: B A#m G# F#m D#m B A#m G# F#m D#m Em 🎸 Verse 1: Em I didn't think that this could be Em All that unto death do we Em 'Til you managed the lock and magicked the key Em After a night of hard drinking and ecstasy 🎸 Pre-Chorus: F Am It's softer than words that are spoken F Em Blackened on paper that's shredded and torn F Am Or carved into stones lying shattered and broken Bm7b5 E7 Branches beckoned along the wrong path Bm7b5 E+ Winding up in the past

🎸 Chorus: Em And this dark and velvet night that surrounds us Em This dark and velvet night, I will wrap around us F Am It's softer than words that are spoken F Em Or painted as slogans and flung to the lions F Am Written on slips as the punters wait smoking Bm7b5 E7 A leap of faith, the odds sky-high Bm7b5 E+ Said goodbye to your place or mine 🎸 Bridge: Fm Cm Dbmaj7 Cm Don't like to make promises that I can't keep Fm Cm Dbmaj7 Cm Don't want to hurt this old heart or wreck my sleep Fm Thinking how will we part? Cm Dbmaj7 Cm Will I hold your hand or you be left holding mine? B A#m G# D#m Between this breath and then B A#m G# D#m There's this airlock of time F#m B This airlock of time 🎸 Chorus: Em And this dark and velvet night that surrounds us Em This dark and velvet night, I will wrap around us F Am It's softer than words that are spoken F Em In the towers of great cities that toppled and drowned F Am Engraved on gold rings or some other love token Bm7b5 E7 Bm7b5 E+ No walls, no bells to sanctify this dark and velvet night 🎸 Outro: Em Em F Am F Em F Am Bm7b5 E7 Bm7b5 E+