Alpha Shallows chords by Laura Marling

• Capo on 4th

Key: G#m

🎸 Intro:
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🎸 Verse 1:
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He could fall and she can weep
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But as holy are my feet and hard with mention
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That dear they may not speak
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We feel tight when there is tension
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And our eyes can make us weak

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🎸 Verse 2:
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And his heart was full of fire at the man he had become
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And his soul seldom higher with the falsities of fun
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Could embrace sweet desires and moments as they passed
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But he feared it ever more, when he saw it didn't last

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🎸 Verse 3:
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We walk up Holland Avenue
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And watch the rich as they consume
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Their product made our hearts exhume an emptiness unrivaled by
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A hunger that I could control, he'd pray up to his God
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That he might save their soul

🎸 Verse 4:
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The grey in this city is too much to bear
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The grey in this city is too much to bear
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And I believe we are meant to be seen and not to be understood

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🎸 Verse 5:
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And I want to be held by those arms
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I want to be held by those arms

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🎸 Verse 6:
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You'll work your thumbs they are sore
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And you'll work my heart till it's raw
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And you'll call and you'll call but you'll never be told
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And I'll fall and I'll fall and I'll fall
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And I'll fall and I'll fall and I'll fall

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🎸 Outro:
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We are basic light
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We are basic light
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