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Laura Marling : Patterns In Repeat
2024

  1. Child Of Mine
  2. Patterns
  3. Your Girl
  4. No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can
  5. The Shadows

  6. Caroline
  7. Looking Back
  8. Lullaby
  9. Patterns In Repeat

Child Of Mine

D
A
You and your dad are dancing in the kitchen
Bm
G
Life is slowing down but it's still bitchin'
D
A
I got myself a rod but I could break it
Bm
G
My back is still as strong as I can make it
A
G
Plus you're mine, so who would rush right through it?
D
A
Bm
G
Child of mine, child of mine, child of mine Everything you want is in your reach right now And anything that's not I have to teach somehow Everything about you is intuitive So those who miss the point might rush right through it 'Cause it's fine, but I don't want to miss it Child of mine, child of mine, child of mine Last night in your sleep you started crying I can't protect you there, though I keep trying Sometimes you'll go places I can't get to But I've spoken to the angels who'll protect you Because you're mine, they cast their golden light Across this child, child of mine, child of mine
D
A
Bm
G
Child of mine, child of mine, child of mine
D
Bm
A
Long nights, fast years so they say Time won't ever feel the same
A
G
And I don't want to miss it No I don't want to miss it And I'm not gonna miss it
D
A
Bm
G
Child of mine, child of mine, child of mine
D
A
Bm
G
Child of mine, child of mine, child of mine

Patterns

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
Capo:
-I
D 0x403x Bm 4x0350 Bb 8x078x
Em 2x4030 Asus4 x0223x D/a 7x077x
G 5400xx A x0222x
D
x4
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|---3---4---7-------7--2---||------0-------0--||
|---0---0---7-------7--2---||----4-------4----||
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|-4---4-5------------------||-0------0--------||
D
Em
Zena, you've squared your toes
G
A
D
But your family nose hangs around
D
Em
You're still a ballerina, everybody knows
G
A
D
But your feet are on the ground
Bm
G
But as the years go by and points comply
Asus4
A
With ever more relief
Bb
D/a
Asus4
A
Then patterns in repeat can begin To have your children, your flock of birds Your branch among the wood You'll try to tell them, but you're lost for words 'Cause it's so absurd, how good And as those years go by They'll look upon you kindly like a friend A pattern in repeat and never ends Pulled for meaning, I arched my back And then from the black you were born Forward leaning at first, abstract You soon contract into form And now the time leaps by and starts to fly And only then can I see That we're patterns in repeat and we'll always be

Your Girl

And so you've turned your life around It's funny how those things all work out somehow for the clowns You know, sometimes you let me down Were you or me, I guess that doesn't matter now You're over there, so no one cares If off I walk alone into this world But I'll always be your girl I'll always be your girl I'm trying to play a boy's game Feeling like a pawn inside a pawnscape If you could call me by my old name Just one more time, remind me from where it was I came 'Cause over here, it's lost in fear That off I walk alone into this world Where no one knows that I'm your girl And I'll always be your girl I rushed around to ask my friends Is this what it feels like when it ends? Then I heard it on your last breath So this is what it feels like to be left alone You're over there, so no one cares And here I walk alone into the world But I'll always be your girl I'll always be your girl

No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can

C
G
You were taking off your clothes
Gm
F
In a bar by the road, when I thought
Dm
G
C
No one's gonna know you like I know
Dm
G
C
No one's gonna know you like I know
C
G
You were saying something strange
Gm
F
Just to make me misbehave, I thought
Dm
G
C
No one's gonna say it like you say
Dm
G
C
G
Gm
F
No one's ever put it quite that way
Dm
G
Bdim
No one's ever put it quite that way
E
Am
And we grew tired of making plans
Dm
That kept slipping through our hands
G
C
And if life is just a dream
G
Gm
F
I'm gonna make it mean something worth a damn
Dm
G
C
So no one's gonna love you like I can
Dm
G
C
G
Gm
F
No one's gonna love you like I can
Dm
G
C
So no one's gonna love you like I can

The Shadows

So someone was sleeping, while she did her leaving Cowards go in the night She did her leaving, and how could I blame her? Who has the nerve to fight? She knows, of course she knows That nothing could tear us apart She lives in the shadows Of my heart I tried to persuade her, in vain, of course, later That's something that I'd deny I knew it was better to say in my letter That I never even tried She knows, of course she knows And one day she'll tear me apart The shadow that she'll leave On my heart She's leaving, she's leaving My altar, she's leaving Where will I go to pray? I want her, I need her I long to believe her Words that she will not say And I knew, of course I knew That one day she'd tear me apart The shadow that she left On my heart She's leaving, she's leaving My altar, she's leaving Where will I go to hide? She lives on the shadows Of my mind

Caroline

|
G
B7/f#
|
Em7
|
Am7
D7/f#
|
G
Gsus4
G
|
G
B7/f#
Em7
What a way to change an evening
Am7
D7/f#
G
Gsus4
G
Was my number hard to find?
G
B7/f#
Em7
You know I'd given up believing
Am7
D7/f#
G
Gsus4
G
But the song had somewhat lingered on my mind
B7/f#
Em7
Am7
It went la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la
D7/f#
G
Gsus4
G
Something, something, Caroline Caroline, you're like an ember A rock that burst back into life A song I only just remember That goes oh something, something, Caroline La-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la Something, something, Caroline Caroline, we are old now
Am7
G
D7/f#
I got married and I loved my wife I have kids, they're good and grown now All in all, I've been happy with my life Oh, I was never really far from you, was I? Something, something, Caroline |
G
B7/f#
|
Em7
|
Am7
D7/f#
|
G
Gsus4
G
|
x2
I'd like you not to call again I'd like to keep you off my mind You're the one who went away, Caroline So the song was forgotten over time It went la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la Something, something, Caroline La-la-la-la la-la-la-la la-la-la Something, something, Caroline

Looking Back

F
/e
Today with age my body is bent
/eb
Bb/d
And against my will I must relent
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
But in my heart, where love still beats
Bb
C
I'm always thinking of you Now I'm a prisoner in this chair Confined to younger faces My memories are not with them But off in distant places
F
/a
Bb/f
Looking back, that's all I do
F
/a
Bb/f
Looking back, that's all I do
F
/a
C
Looking back, that's all I'll ever do The things we had, the love we shared Perhaps like any other But even now, how sweet it is To think of things recovered I wonder if you think of me Watching evening summers Perhaps somewhere beyond the dark Love can be recovered Looking back, that's all I do Looking back, that's all I do Looking back, that's all I ever do

Lullaby

Safe in my arms Safe in my arms Sleep my angel You're safe with me Now the evening Time for sleeping To the dawn You sleep with me Safe in my arms Safe in my arms Sleep my angel You're safe with me

Patterns In Repeat

That you'd walk into a room Tell me for the millionth time The many fine points to tell your story Like "Calabasas was in bloom" You know I'm frankly unaware of all the ways in which that is supposed to move me You could skip the end, the photograph, the friend The long-returning trim that you'd foreseen Just patterns in repeat Like they've always been You had your children on the fly Another child, another guy, another chance to fall in love again I fear they may have paid the price for the freedom of your life Though you would say that was a chance to show them An open door, a broken bone, a marble floor And patterns in repeat Forevermore Forevermore If only I had known you then A hanger-on, perhaps a friend An ear to bend around which way you saw it playing I tell it well, I try to sell them on the fact you were a match Ever a scratch away from bursting into flames and A light perfume that lingered in the room That everlasting tune you had to sing A smile or two, a gap between your tooth Your dirty underwear, your diamond ring Just patterns in repeat Like everything Like everything Like everything I want you to know that I gave it up willingly Nothing real was lost in the bringing of you to me I want you to have a piece of my maternal flame Part of me, eternity, a tolerance for pain