Berlin chords by Marillion

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: G minorGm

The intro vamps on 4 chords.
For the first 4 bars it's G minorGm to FF (Riff 1)

Set a delay for quarternotes, with 3-4 repeats and plenty of mix and play "off it" to fill out the sound.
Let the delay do the heavy lifting.

Intro:


Riff 1: x 2
e|---------------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------------|
G+G|----3-3-2-2-----2-2-----3-3-2-2----2-2-|
D MajorD|3-5---------3-3-----3-5---------3-3----|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------|

Riff 2: x 2
e|---------------------------------------|
BB|--4-4-3-3----3-3---4-4-3-3----3-3------|
G+G|5--------3-3––––3–5––––––––3–3––––3–5––|
D MajorD|-----------––––––––––––––––––––––––––––|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------|

Verse 1:
G minorGm      FF   G minorGm        FF
The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar
G minorGm    FF    G minorGm      FF
Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze
C minorCm      Bb majorBb    C minorCm       Bb majorBb
Black leather crackles and cold water runs
C minorCm         Bb majorBb     C minorCm     Bb majorBb
As she touches the walls of her memory maze

Verse 2:
G minorGm         FF     G minorGm       FF
And the shadows of men she has known fill her day
G minorGm         FF      G minorGm     FF
She's held half the world in her arms so they say
C minorCm        Bb majorBb      C minorCm         Bb majorBb
But she wakes up without them with a hole in her heart
C minorCm         Bb majorBb    C minorCm          Bb majorBb
And she puts on her clothes lives her life behind bars

Instrumental:
DmDm – C majorC
(Riff 3)

Riff 3: x 2
e|--------------------------------------–––-|
BB|--6-6-5-5----–5-5---––6-6-5-5----–5-5-----|
G+G|7--------–5-5–––––5–6–––––––––5–5–––––5–5–|
D MajorD|-----------–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------------–––-|
E MajorE|--------------------------------------–––-|

Verse 3:
G minorGm      FF   G minorGm        FF
The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar
G minorGm      FF   G minorGm        FF
Sighs at the skylight gets lost in the haze
C minorCm      Bb majorBb      C minorCm     Bb majorBb
Black leather crackles and cold water runs
C minorCm       Bb majorBb     C minorCm     Bb majorBb
As she touches the walls of her memory maze

Instrumental:
E minorEm - B minorBm – C majorC – D MajorD x2

Verse 4:
E minorEm     B minorBm       C majorC     D MajorD
Someone got stranded in no man's land
E minorEm       B minorBm        C majorC        D MajorD
Dancing in the spotlight to the sound of clapping hands
E minorEm   B minorBm        C majorC      D MajorD
Nobody knows who's side he was on
E minorEm          B minorBm     C majorC       D MajorD
It's a risk that you take in no man's land
E minorEm   B minorBm       C majorC      D MajorD
Nobody knows what made him decide
E minorEm     B minorBm       C majorC     D MajorD
To run for freedom and to certain suicide
E minorEm           B minorBm         C majorC      D MajorD
When they turn off the guns and his fingers uncurl
E minorEm        B minorBm       C majorC      D MajorD
He's clutching a photograph of a Berlin party girl

Verse 5:

Play the Esus4–E section like this:

e|--------5--------------4---------------|
BB|--------5--------------5---------------|
G+G|----4---4----------4---4---------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------|

Esus4Esus4            E MajorE
Come in from your checkpoints on your lonely roads
Esus4Esus4            E MajorE
Come in from your ditches in your silent fields
Esus4Esus4            E MajorE
Where intensified light from a rifle sight
Esus4Esus4            E MajorE
Makes the darkness day, and the day too bright

Instrumental:
Esus4Esus4 E MajorE

Verse 6:
Esus4Esus4     E MajorE
And we wake up without you
Esus4Esus4     E MajorE
We wake up without you
Esus4Esus4     E MajorE
And we wake up without you
Esus4Esus4     E MajorE
We wake up without you

Verse 7:
G minorGm         FF
With a hole in our hearts
G minorGm         FF
With a hole in our hearts

Instrumental:
G minorGm FF

Verse 8:
G minorGm           FF (Fsus4Fsus4)
You mad dog shaven head bottle-boy freaks
G minorGm          FF (Fsus4Fsus4)
In Martens and khaki, drunk on sake
C minorCm              Bb majorBb (Bbsus4Bbsus4)
You stare at yourself in the cruel flush of dawn
C minorCm           Bb majorBb (Bbsus4Bbsus4)
Terrified, sunken eyed, withered and drawn
G minorGm           FF (Fsus4Fsus4)
The butcher, the baker, the munitions maker
G minorGm           FF (Fsus4Fsus4)
The over-achiever, the armistice breaker
C minorCm            Bb majorBb (Bbsus4Bbsus4)
The freebase instructor, the lightning conductor
C minorCm             Bb majorBb (Bbsus4Bbsus4)
The psycho, the sailor, the tanker, the tailor
G minorGm
The black market mailer
FF (Fsus4Fsus4)
The quick and the dead
G minorGm
The spotlight dancer
FF (Fsus4Fsus4)
The quick and the dead
G minorGm        FF
The quick and the dead
G minorGm        FF
The quick and the dead

Instrumental:
G minorGm FF

Verse 9:
C minorCm          Bb majorBb
We wake up without you
C minorCm          Bb majorBb
We wake up without you
G minorGm         FF
With a hole in our hearts
G minorGm         FF

Guitar solo:
C minorCm Bb majorBb
G minorGm FF

Outro:
G minorGm
The mascara'd blonde
G minorGm        FF
From the Berliner bar
Eb MajorEb    FF    G5G5
Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze