Marillion

Accords et partitions

80 Days

G C Cmaj9 Em F D

Staring down from this high window At the faces in the line Cold from hours of waiting How many people can you love When you're black and blue with bruises

A Legacy

B

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S Slide H Hammer-on P Pull-off T Tap B Bend the note to the fret after the

A State Of Mind

Am Em D G Cmaj7 Bm

Verse 1: He looked down from the airplane A crack in the clouds opened up he saw a garden of Eden An island in the sea Staring at the birth of creation

Afraid Of Sunlight

A B D F# F#m Em7

Drive the road to your surrender Time comes around... out of my hands Small boats on the beach at the dead of night Come and go before first light Leave me running in the wheel

After Me

D G Em Bm A

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There's a line on her jeans that a ball point made >From a careless mistake that she can't wash away And there's a heart on her sleeve from a spill of red wine

After Me V2

A D G E F#m Em

There's a line on her jeans that a ball-point made From a careless mistake that she can't wash away And there's a heart on her sleeve from a spill of red wine There's a piece of green in the blue of her eyes She named it after me

An Accidental Man

G Am F Dm Em Bb

I was taught from much too young To never give myself away Yes, I was taught for every secret There's a price you have to pay

Angelina

Am F C G Em D7

Every day at 5 am If you're down or in a mess Get off on Angelina When you've stayed up far too late Fallen through the door in a state

Assasing Song

A B E D F# C#m

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Assassing

A E B F# G D

I am the assassin, providing your Nemesis On the sacrificial altar to success, my friend Unleash a stranger from a kiss, my friend No incantations of remorse, my friend, unsheathe the blade within the voice

Be Hard On Yourself

Bm G A Em F#m F

Big ball of rocks and water spinning round in space Blue green and made of magic, miracles on miracles On miracles with miracles inside Why would you kill it?

Beaujolais Day

Am C Fmaj7 D Em G

[Verse 1] I went to Morrison's grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery The stony flowers and the matching graffiti were guiding me To the steps inside of me

Beautiful

F G C Am Em D

Everybody knows we live in a world where they give bad names to beautiful things Everybody knows we live in a world where we don't give beautiful things a second glance Heaven only knows we live in a world where what we call beautiful is just something on sale People laughing behind their hands As the fragile and the sensitive are given no chance

Berlin

Dm7 Gm Cm Gm7 E7sus4 E7

The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze Black leather crackles and cold water runs As she touches the walls of her memory maze

Beyond You

A Bm D C E Bb

[Intro] / Esus2 / Esus2 / Esus2 / Esus2 / Esus2 / Esus2

Bitter Suite

D Bb Am G A C

(spoken) A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow, Not the regal creature of border caves, But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar Of some obscure Scottish poet. The mist crawls from the canal

Care

G C Am F Bbmaj7 D

They give me maintenance drugs, said I’ll be okay They give me maintenance drugs, they said I’d be okay So I’m taking my time, living from day to day You gotta live No one knows how much time, no one knows how much time

Charting The Single

D C

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Schnapping my fingers on an alcoholiday Sniff round a Fräulein when I'm scent to Cologne All night hotel liebling make your mark Let sugar daddy melt in his home sweet home Home is where the heart lies

Chelsea Monday

Am Dm F#m Em Bb Gm

Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress Hiding in her cellophane world in glitter town. Awaiting the prince in her white Capri Dynamic young Tarzan courts the bedsit queen. She's playing the actress in this bedroom scene,

Childhoods End

D Bm E F#m G A

And it was morning And I found myself mourning, For a childhood that I thought had disappeared I looked out the window And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, The rain had gone I'm not alone, I turned to the mirror

Cinderella Search

B C# D#m D Em A

[Verse 1] On the rebound, fumbling all the lines The light at the end of the bottle, alcoholic alphabet Through the looking glass the proof in my own reflection Five senses down and reeling on the Cinderella search, Cinderella search

Cover My Eyes

D E F#m C#m A C

Cover my eyes The light falls on her face Dangerous lines Dangerous colors & shapes Ferocious designs

Deserve

G5 A5

They got money, they got sun They look like they're havin' fun Don't it seem it's so unfair They know something you don't know They've got a better place to go

Don't hurt yourself

D G C Bm Em Cmaj7

There'll come a time when all of this is over Something else will grow and take its place The brand new car:scrap metal in a junkyard The children playing will grow up and leave home Put it away this dream you can't stop dreaming

Drilling Holes

Em C C#m D Ebm Bb

A man came to drill holes in the afternoon And by the evening Most of the afternoon had gone I seem to have slept through the morning But in the afternoon

Dry Land

Bbmaj7 C D Dm F G/D

I was aware of the danger Of making a bid for your favours You're such a natural stranger I made excuses and ran

Easter

D G C Em Am Em/C

Verse 1 A ghost of a mist was on the field The grey and the green together The noise of a distant farm machine Out of the first light came

Especially True

Am F C D E G

[Verse 1] I gazed upon you from the bleachers A creature so foreign to me With the stars and the stripes wrapped around you Well how could I know there was England below?

Estonia

F Bb C Gm Am G

Feeling you shake Feel your heart break Thinking if only, if only, if only, if only And the salt water runs Through your veins and your bones

Exile On Princes Street

G D Em Bm A E

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I saw a blue umbrella in Princes Street Garden Heading out west for the Lothian Road An evening news stuffed deep in the pocket Little did I know that even a heavy load I found us walking Grierson's dockyards

Fantastic Place

Bb F F7sus4 Gm Fm C

Take me to the fantastic place Keep the rest of my life away Take me to the fantastic place Keep the rest of my life away

Forgotten Sons

C A Bb Am G D

Armalite, streetlights, nightsights Searching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighter Death in the shadows he'll maim you, he'll wound you, he'll kill you For a long forgotten cause on not so foreign shores Boys baptised in wars, boys baptised in wars

Garden Party

G D C A Am

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Garden party held today Invites call the debs to play Social climbers polish ladders Wayward sons again have fathers "Hello, Dad, hello, Dad"

Gaza

F#m A E B E5 Eb5

When I was young it all seemed like a game Living here brought no sense of shame But now I'm older I've come to understand Once we had houses, once we had land They rained down bullets on us as our homes collapsed

Go (ver. 2)

Cmaj7 G D Am D7 C

Turn your life upside down Take a car into town Wait until the world's asleep And tear it up and never stop again

The Great Escape

C G Em Bb Am Am6

[Verse 1] Heading for the great escape Heading for the rave Heading for the permanent holiday Heading for the winter trip

He Knows, You Know

G D Am Em Dsus4 E

Light switch, yellow fever, crawling up your bathroom wall Singing psychedelic praises to the depths of a china bowl You've got venom in your stomach, you've got poison in your head You should have listened to the priest at the confession When he offered you the sacred bread

Heart Of Lothian

D G C Bb Cm Ab

[Intro] On the outskirts of nowhere On the ring road to somewhere On the verge of indecision I'll always take the roundabout way

Hotel Hobbies

Dm D G/D Em C Am/D

Hotel hobbies padding dawns hollow corridors Bell boys checking out the hookers in the bar Slug-like fingers trace the star-spangled clouds of cocaine on the mirror The short straw takes its bow

Incommunicado

G F C D Gsus4/D Bb

I'd be really pleased to meet you if only I could remember your name But I've got problems with my memory ever since I got a winner in the fame game I'm a citizen of Legoland travellin' incommunicado And I don't give a damn for the Fleet Street afficionados

Incubus

Am Em7 C#m D Em F#sus4

Oooh-wah, oooh-wah, oooh-wah, oooh-wah When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion Forewarned, my audience leaves the stage, floating ahead perfumed shift Within the stammering silence, the face that launched a thousand frames Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career

Interior Lulu

Em D C Gm F F#

[Verse 1] As you lie there on your bed Beneath the face of Louise Brooks With your makeup and your teddy bear And your C.S. Lewis books

Invisible Ink

B

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/ Slide H Hammer-on P Pull-off T Tap B Bend the note to the fret after the

Its Not Your Fault

G Cm D Cmaj7 C

You're only human... so am I It's such a shame we have these secrets and lies That get discovered from time to time Whatever rises eventually falls The world turns and it turns on us all

Jester Tear

Bm F#7 Em A G D

So here I am once more In the playground of the broken hearts, One more experience, one more entry In a diary, self-penned. Yet another emotional suicide,

Jigsaw

F# B E Abm F A

We are jigsaw pieces, aligned on the perimeter edge, Interlocked through a missing piece. We are renaissance children, becalmed beneath the bridge of sighs, Forever throwing firebrands at the stondework. We are siamese children related by the heart.

Just For The Record

C G D A B Bb

[Verse 1] Many's the time I've been thinking about changing my ways But when it gets right down to it it's the same drunken haze I'm serving a sentence to write life's sentences It's only when I'm out of it I make sense of this

Kayleigh

A G D B Bm F#m

Do you remember, chalk hearts melting on a playground wall? Do you remember, dawn escaped from moonwashed college halls? Do you remember, the cherry blossom in the market square? Do you remember, I thought it was confetti in our hair By the way didn't I break your heart?

Lady Nina

G F D C

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You pick out your credit cards and check into the night A dozen tequilas and you're feeling all right So you swim to the disco, out of your depth jaded gigolo Your lucky charms are tarnished so you leave alone But there's one place left to go before the taxi home

Lavender

E7 E D C#m Amaj7 A

[Verse 1] I was walking in the park Dreaming of a spark When I heard the sprinklers whisper, shimmer In the haze of summer lawns

Man Of A Thousand Faces

Am F G C D Dm

Will I speak to machines with the voice of humanity, Speak to the wise with the voice of insanity, Speak to the present in the past and the future tense, I'll speak to a slave with the voice of obedience.

Marbles I

F#m a Am

Did anyone see my last marble Esus2 As it rolled out and over the floor? It fell through a hole in the corner Esus2

Market Square Heroes

D G F Em C A

I found smog at the end of my rainbow I found my thoughts shift slowly into phase Declared the constitution of the walkway I realise it's time to plan the day, the day, the day, the day, the day, the day, the day

Memory Of Water

A Bm G D C# E

I wonder if my rope's still hanging from the tree By the standing pool where you drank me And filled me full of thirsty love And the memory of water

Misplaced Childhood

G Am A D C Bm

Bear in mind that this is just what I hear/play - feel free to disagree. I would love to hear any corrections you have, etc. I've worked from The original version, not the live version on "The Thieving Magpie" - There are some differences.

Montreal

G Eb A C Gm Bm

200 fates entwined inside the plane We watched as England dropped away from us again I wasn't waiting, I wasn't sure what I would find I was prepared to let it happen on its own this time I had a feeling I was floating into time spent amongst friends

Murder Machines

D Am Em7 Em6 G Em9

[Verse] Murder machines Fragments of life Cadd9 Too small to see

Neverland

F Cm Gm Ab Eb Bb

When the darkness takes me over Face down, emptier than zero Invisible you come to me ..quietly Stay beside me

The New Kings

Gm E Cm Eb D Ab

We are the new kings Fmaj7 Gsus4 Sailing our seas of diamonds and gold We are the new kings Fmaj7 Gsus4

No One Can

A B E G#m F#m C#m

You landed in my life Like a new and brighter light That made all my pasts seem in shadow I always used to believe That beauty was skin deep

Now She'll Never Know

Gm F D Bb Am Fmaj7

In the after silence, fighting leaves behind I try to think it over, But my mind's goes blind I lost the right to argue, Somewhere down the line I had to tell She told me to Go to hell And here I am

Number One

D Gm Cm

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Verse 1: You sound truly heartbroken You can do it, you're a pro Agony from every pore and such control The orchestra swoops and the drum samples roll

One Fine Day

A G Bm E D Em

Oh how years change the things for which we strive. A better world now just quiet life. What seems so simple is still so far away Don't hold your breath wait if one fine day

Out Of This World

Bm A G F#m Dm Am

[Verse] Three hundred miles an hour on water In your purpose-built machine No one dared to call a boat

Punch and Judy

D B F#m F# A E

Washing machine, pinstripe dream, stripped the gloss from a beauty queen Punch and Judy, Judy, Judy, Judy, Judy, Judy Found our nest in The Daily Express, met the vicar in a holy vest Punch and Judy, Punch and Judy Brought up the children Church of E, now I vegetate with a colour TV

Quartz Less Is More

Em F#m Gm Fm Ebm Dm

I can imagine nothing more tedious Than trying to have fun with you again Maybe it's just something in my mind But I hate feeling like I'm trying all the time It's a kind of lie

Real Tears For Sale

Am C G6 D Em9 F

Such a pretty girl The anger didn't hide it You shaved your head, pulled a face Dressed yourself up without grace

Runaway

Pas de barré

Did you cry when they dragged you home Put a lock on the door and the telephone Was a runaway girl all they could see Have the nights and the days that you've come through Made the right seem wrong and the false seem true

Script For A Jesters Tear

Bm A E G F#m D

So here I am once more In the playground of the broken hearts One more experience, one more entry In a diary, self penned Yet another emotional sui-cide

Sierra Leone

Am D G Cmaj7 Bm Em

I found this object deep below the ground Chance in a million under rubbish town Where little barefoot children scratch around Fishing for treasure in the broken glass

Slainte Mhath

F Eb C Bb D Am

Take it away Take it away Take it away Take it away, take it away Take it away, take it away

Somewhere Else

C Em G Am D A

This rock-star trip... some serious ship White-knuckle journey blackened my eye and cut my lip Better to be a doctor or a man who walks the earth Hedonistic laughing boys... what's any of it worth?..

The Space

F#m Dm D Asus4/7 Am C

On top of the world like a flag on a mountain Feeling so high you can feel so alone Unable to breathe at the height that you flew Staring on clouds with no view of below

Splintering Heart

Am D Gm Ebmaj7 Dm Cm

And I'm paying in pain, it's the cost of the high Till the weight of the secret and the weight of the lie Makes my heart want to burst, feel the ache as time goes by Getting better and worse, getting better and worse

Sugar Mice

G D Am7

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[Verse 1] G Cadd9 I was flicking through the channels on the TV G Cadd9 On a Sunday in Milwaukee in the rain

These Chains

C Em E D G A

Everything crashed His wife left him He lost all his money And most of his friends He lay awake all night

This Is The 21St Century

Am Dm F G E C

A wise man once said A flower is only A sexual organ Beauty is cruelty And evolution

This strange engine

F D Dm C G Em

There was a boy who came into this world at the hands of a holy woman in a holy place He wore a red coat and walked a bulldog, saw them reflected in the mirror of the lakes Lived in the shadow of the mountains with the smells of disinfectant Dusty old leather and the polished wood of his bed No more than a baby feeding swans on the river, holding the hands of his mother

This Train Is My Life

C Am G D C/B F

This tab is based on the recording from "Live from Cadogan Hall". I know some versions Of the song would need , so put that on If you prefer.

Thousand faces

Am F G C

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Will I speak to machines with the voice of humanity, Speak to the wise with the voice of insanity, Speak to the present in the past and the future tense, I'll speak to a slave with the voice of obedience.

Three Minute Boy

G Am Bb D F B

Here today Gone this afternoon Another tune we almost remember What's the story Sex and drugs again

Trap The Spark

G D F#m Em A E

[Chorus 1] Trap the spark and hold it there You can't, you can't Goose-bumps that don't fade away They can't remain

Tux On

Bb Csus4 Ab Eb Dm F

He has eyes down at the bingo on that lucky Friday night The match was rained off Saturday but the panel came in bright And on Sunday your mates were toasting you with champagne down the pub And on Monday you went to London To pick the cheque up with your mum

Waiting To Happen

E A C#m F#m G#m D

I lie awake at night Listening to you sleeping I hear the darkness breathe And the rain against the window

Warm Wet Circles

F# B E A C Db

On promenades where drunks propose To lonely arcade mannequins Where ceremonies pause at the jeweler's shop display Feigning casual silence in strained romantic interludes 'Til they commit themselves to the muted journey home

The Web

F D G Am Em E

[Verse] The rain auditions at my window Its symphony echoes in my womb My gaze scans the walls of this apartment To rectify the confines of my tomb-ouuuh

When I Meet God

Em C A Am7 G F

[Verse 1] And if the bottle's no solution Why does it feel so warm And if that girl is no solution Why did she feel so warm

White Feather

A D F G

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When I hit the streets back in '81, Found a heart in the gutter and a poet's crown I felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tears Where have I been for all these years? I saw political intrigue, political lies Gonna wipe those smiles of Self-satisfaction from their eyes