A Belated Invite To Eternity chords by Stornoway

Intro:

G   A A7

D G F#m A


Verse 1:
D     G     F#m
It was late last night
  A         D
And all the band were sleeping
    G     F#m    A
It was late last night
D     G     F#m
I was listening to
    A      D
To the generators humming
    G      F#m
To the tent-zipping drunk
     A
Quipping, guy-rope tripping

Link:
D G F#m A


Verse 2:
D     G     F#m
And in the gathering dew
   A     D
I was lucid as a floodlight
   G      F#m   A
I was thinking of you
D      G     F#m
But now I'm back here before you
    A       D
You can see me shaking
      F#m    A
Cos in that moment I knew
    A      A      A
I just knew, I just knew, I just knew


Verse 3:
D   G      F#m
Forty seasons have flown
    A         D
Since I first sat down beside you
   G      F#m    A
In a crowd on our own
  D    G      F#m
And how one person could thrill me
  A7      D
Occupy me and fulfil me
    G     F#m
I could never have known
    A   A  A
I could never have known


Chorus:
G            A
How in the first of our autumns
     A7    Em
We'd be falling so steeply
           A
We could share so completely
G            A
How in the third of our summers
     A7      Em
When you first tried to leave me
          A
You could cut me so deeply
    A7     A7
I could never have known


Link:
D Daug D Daug G Gaug


Bridge:
D     Daug    D
And on my wilderness journeys
     Daug     G
With your compass still in me
    Gaug     D
All the shelters were empty
      Daug    D
Through the longest of winters
    Daug      G
When I called you downriver
    Gaug    G
But you gave me no answer
   A       Bm
And I feared for my mind
     G       Bm
Until the first signs of springtime
     G     Bm
You were sick and I saw you
    A
And how much you'd missed me
Em     G    Em
Now in our eleventh autumn
    G        Em
You are blonde from the summer
    G      A
And I'm back here before you
    A7   A
And you see me shaking


Link:
G A Em A


Chorus:
G            A
Will you go with me, my love?

From here together
Em           A
From this quiet rented house
G            A
Will you go with me, my love?

To face together
Em          A     A7
Every rise and every slow decline
Em        Bm
Will you go with me
    F#m      Em
Through dream and fantasy?


Outro:
G       A Bm
Through the open fields
  F#m     Em
And tangled valleys?
G        D
Will you go with me
    F#m      Em
Through grief and ecstasy?
G        A Bm
And every shade be-tween
  F#m     Em
The cold morning stars
    A  A7  G    Bm
And the deep blue sea