Laura Marling : Semper Femina

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x4

Dm

Bb

Oh, my hopeless wanderer

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You can't come in

Gm

A

You don't live here anymore Go, some creepy conjurer Who touched the rim Whose hands are in the door

D

Bb

I need soothing

D

Bb

My lips aren't moving

Dm

/c

Bb

A

My God is brooding Drawn in chalk across the floor You made it yours Your private door to my room May those who find you find remorse A change of course A strange discord resolved

D

Bb

I need soothing

D

Bb

My lips aren't moving

Dm

/c

Bb

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Fm

) My God is brooding

Fm

C

(

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) I banish you with love

Dm

Bb

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) I banish you with love

Dm

You can't come in

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A

You don't live here anymore |

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Intro

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Verse 1

Bass 1

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Bass 2

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Bass 1

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Chorus 1

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Post-Chorus

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Verse 2

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Chorus 2

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Bridge

Bass 1

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Bass 2

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Bass 1

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Outro

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E5

I know she stayed in town last night Didn't get in touch I know she has my number right She can't face seeing us

G

She sings in the valley in the morning

Bm

G

Many a morning I have woke

G

Longing to ask her what she's mourning

Bm

G

Course I know it can't be spoke

C

G

C

G

A

E5

Perhaps she's had too much of love Can be a sickly thing That's why she mourns the morning dew And the newness that it brings She sings in the valley in the morning Many a morning I have woke Longing to ask her what she's mourning Of course I know it can't be spoke

C

G

I love you in the morning I love you in the day I'd love you in the evening If only she would stay

Am

Em

Am

Em

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E5

We love beauty 'cause it needs us to It needs our brittle glaze And innocence reminds us to Cover our drooling gaze She's down there in the valley I know she wanders there She's down there in the valley I can see her golden hair

C

G

I love you in the morning My angel of the west I love you in the evening And I will do my very best I'll do my very best

Capo:

-II

Em7/G xxx433 E7 x7675x

E7sus4 xxx435 E7b9 x7676x

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C

Chasing down a wild fire

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C

F

Are you trying to make a cold liar out of me?

C

You want to get high?

F

C

F

You overcome those desires before you come to me

Dm7

Em7/g

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E7sus4

) I think your mama's kinda sad And your papa's kinda mean I can take that all away

Dm7

Em7/g

You can stop playing it out on me

C

F

C

F

Me, me She keeps a pen behind her ear in case She's got something she really really needs to say She puts it in a notepad She's going to write a book someday Of course the only part that I want to read Is about her time spent with me Wouldn't you die to know how you're seen Are you getting away with who you're trying to be Trying, trying to be Of course there's things upon the earth That we must really try to defend A lonely beast, a kind heart Or something weak and on trend I'd do it all for her, for free I need nothing back for me There no sweeter deed may be Than to love something enough to want to help it get free Free, free

E7

Is there something on her mind?

E9

Something she needs to get by?

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F

Do you cry sometimes?

Am

F

Do you cry sometimes?

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F

You always say you love me most When I don't know I'm being seen Well maybe someday when God takes me away I'll understand what the fuck that means I just know your mama's kinda sad And your papa's kinda mean I can take it all away You can stop playing that shit out on me Me, me

E7

Is there something on your mind?

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Something you need to get by?

Am

F

Do you cry sometimes?

Am

F

Do you cry sometimes?

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G7

) Like I I just know your mama's kinda sad I know your papa's kinda mean I can take it all away You can stop playing that shit out on me Me, me

C

C xx5555 C/d xx7555

C/c# xx6555 F/a x07565

Am

/g

You see my oldest friend

D/f#

Tell her that I'm gone again

E

You take my old guitar The one that I once said was ours Don't be blue You hum that old tune The one I used to sing for you When we were alone You ask her if she knew Was this something I would do? From the start

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F/a

Please don't pass me by If I'm walking but I don't know why It's something that I have to try Can you love me if I put up a fight? Take my old guitar And sell it off for parts As you should Take my old tune Turn it into something new Something good Please don't pass me by If I'm walking but I don't know why It's something that I have to try Can you love me if I put up a fight?

Am

Dm

Is it something you make a habit of?

G

C

Am

That's not what I need from love right now

C

Am

F/c

E

Right now, right now, right now

C

F

C

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C

I'd like to say that I could've stayed

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C

G

But she didn't want me to

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C

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C

I'd like to know if she had to go

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C

G

Or if she made a point to

Am

Am(maj7)

It's so hard to say

Am7

Am(maj7)

"Is it always this way?"

Am

Em

Must every heart break

F

G

Like a wave on the bay Like to think that we're all a link In what makes the world go round Lately I wonder if all my pondering's Taken up too much ground I make my own way So at the end of the day At least I can say That my debts have been paid Twenty-five years, nothing to show for it Nothing of any weight Twenty-five more, will I never learn from it Never learn from my mistakes It's too soon to say "Was I always this way?" Well at the end of the day My debts have been paid Now she's gone and I'm all alone And she will not be replaced Stare at the phone, try to carry on But I have made my mistake At the end of the day At least I can say I made my own way And my debts have been paid

Capo:

II

C

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They put my hands in water Told me I'm a god I might be someone's daughter Might be somewhat odd

D7/f#

But I was wild once And I can't forget it I was wild, chasing stones

Em

The martyr who feels the fire And the child who knows his name They remember that there's something wild And it's something you can't explain Oh it's something you can't explain They are wild And they can't forget it They are wild, chasing stones It's hard if you can't change it It's worse if you don't try You will sit down to explain it And you're constantly asking why You are constantly asking why

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C

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Bb

F/c

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F/c

C

It feels like a long time since I was free It feels like the right time to take that seriously It feels like the trees are a peculiar green It feels like the air is hung heavily

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Fsus4

F/c

Bb

I don't want to be the kind Struck by fear to run and hide

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C

I'll do better next time It feels like warning signs were there for us to see It feels like they taught us ignore diligently I feel her, I hear her weakly scream Am I really so unkind To turn around and close my eyes?

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Bb

I'll do better next time I'll do better next time It feels like the last breath we will ever share It feels like the last time I'll run my fingers through your hair I can no longer close my eyes While the world around me dies At the hands of folks like me It seems they fail to see There may never Next time be

Am/e CxEEDx C(iii) x3x55x

Asus2/eb BxEECx F(viii) x8AAA8

F/f# x9AAA8

C

Cadd9

C

Cadd9

She sings along to a sailor's song

G

C/a

G/b

C/g

In a dress that she made

G

C/a

A7

When she's gone I sing along

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C

But it doesn't sound the same

C(iii)

/b

Am

Em

Dm

C

Oh Nouel, you seem so well

F(viii)

/f#

Sing only for me

Am/e

Asus2/eb

Fickle, unchangeable

Dm

G

C/a

G/b

C/a

G

Though I may always be I pulled a thorn from her tiny paw Her feet were unclean Fetch water, blessed twice And hand that sponge to me I do well to serve Nouel Whatever service I may be Fickle, unchangeable Weighing down on me She speaks a word which gently turns To perfect metaphor She likes to say I only play When I know what I'm playing for Oh Nouel, you must know me well And I didn't even show you the scar Fickle, unchangeable Semper femina She'd like to be the kind of free Women can't be alone I wish I could hit the switch That keeps you from getting gone Oh Nouel, it must hurt like hell When you're so afraid to die Semper femina So am I She lays herself across the bed The origine du monde Slight of shoulder, long and legged Her hair a faded blonde Oh Nouel, you sit so well A thousand artists' muse You'll be anything you choose Fickle, unchangeable are you And long may that continue I do well to serve Nouel My only guiding star Fickle, unchangeable Semper femina

A

I won't forget the late September Where we danced among the midnight embers

Bm

But it's going like a half-remembered dream

A

Left and north of where we met Thinking better of going west

Bm

Yeah we lost each other in a river stream

D

I thought I'd come and find you there Wait until you lost your hair

Bm

And got your place out in the woods

D

You're not afraid of trees or bears Or anything with tendencies

Bm

To wanna hurt you good

A

The only thing I learnt in a year

Bm

Where I didn't smile once, not really

A

Nothing matters more than love, no

Bm

Nothing, no, not nothing no, not nearly

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E

We've not got long, you know

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D

To bask in the afterglow

Bm

E

Once it's gone it's gone

A

D

Love waits for no one

A

I won't forget the late September Where we danced among the midnight embers

Bm

But it's going like a half-remembered dream

A

Left and north of where we met Thinking better of going west

Bm

Yeah we lost each other in a river stream

D

The only thing I learnt in a year

Bm

Where I didn't smile once, not really

D

Nothing matters more than love, no

Bm

Nothing, no, not, nothing no, not nearly

D

E

We've not got long, you know

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D

To bask in the afterglow

Bm

E

Once it's gone it's gone

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D

Love waits for no one We've not got long, you know To bask in the afterglow Once it's gone it's gone Love waits for no one

Laura Marling : Semper Femina
2017

Soothing

The Valley

Wild Fire

Don't Pass Me By

Always This Way

Wild Once

Next Time

Nouel

Nothing Not Never

Laura Marling : Semper Femina 2017

Soothing

The Valley

Wild Fire

Don't Pass Me By

Always This Way

Wild Once

Next Time

Nouel

Nothing Not Never

Laura Marling : Semper Femina
2017