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Laura Marling : Song For Our Daughter
2020

  1. Alexandra
  2. Held Down
  3. Strange Girl
  4. Only The Strong
  5. Blow By Blow
  6. Song For Our Daughter
  7. Fortune
  8. The End Of The Affair
  9. Hope We Meet Again
  10. For You

Alexandra

Tuning: EAC#EAE (Open A)
G6/9/E 000000 C6 xx5555 C#m 00B0AC
F#m7 202200 Am7 555555 F6 00AAAA
B6sus2 000424 Bbm 008079
G#m 006057 D6 xx7777
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D6
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C6
G#m
C6
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C6
What became of Alexandra did she make it through?
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C6
What kind of woman gets to love you?
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D6
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C6
Wrote us all a little note, nothing left to lose
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C6
What kind of woman gets to love you
F#m7
G6/9/e
F#m7
G6/9/e
I need to know
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C6
G6/9/e
Where did Alexandra go?
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D6
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Alexandra had no fear she lived out in the woods
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C6
She'd tell you what you're doing wrong if she thinks she'll be understood
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D6
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Pulls her socks up to her knees finds diamonds in the drain
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C6
One more diamond to add to her chain
F#m7
G6/9/e
F#m7
G6/9/e
I need to know
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C6
G6/9/e
Where does Alexandra go? Where did Alexandra go?
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F6
It won't change how I'm feeling
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F6
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But you can try to help me understand
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If she loved you like a woman
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F#m7
G6/9/e
Did you feel like a man?
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G6/9/e
I need to know
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C6
G6/9/e
Where did Alexandra go? Where did Alexandra go?
Am7
G6/9/e
You had to say your shit to bed
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C6
You could not bear the unsaid
Am7
G6/9/e
I had to try a fuck to give
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C6
Why should I die so you can live?
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C6
G6/9/e
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G6/9/e
What did Alexandra know? What did Alexandra know? What did Alexandra know?

Held Down

I woke up, it was four in the morning Clear as all hell that you'd already gone Your note said, "Dear, you know I hate to disappear But the days are short and the nights are getting long" And I just meant to tell you that I don't want to let you down And I just meant to tell you that I don't want to get you wrong Think about now with my legs wrapped around you How many times before have you seen me run? It's a cruel kinda twist that you'd leave like this Just drop my wrist and say, "Well that's us done" I was just gonna tell you that I don't want to let you down Get lost in the crowd Seen or unseen Say what you mean You sent me a book, but you gave up a look But I just don't care for it and I cannot get through But you're writing again, and I'm glad old friend I'll make sure you write me out of where you get to I was just gonna tell you that I don't want to let you down Get lost in the crowd Seen or unseen Say what you mean 'Cause we all want to be here now And we all want to be held down And we all want to be here now And we all want to be held down I woke up, it was four in the morning Clear as all hell that you'd already gone Your note said, "Dear, you know I hate to disappear But the days are short and the nights are getting long" And I just mean to tell you that I don't want to be let down Get lost in the crowd Seen or unseen Say what you mean

Strange Girl

Tuning: DADGBD (Double Drop D)
D7 057575 Am7 xx5555 (xxxCC0)
Cadd9 xx5050 D 0xx230 (xxxBA0)
Bm 997777 F 330210
G 550430 Gm 553333
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Get all your records out and throw them all away
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No one left to listen to, much left, less to say
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G
Working hard and getting on, still not getting paid
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Stay low, keep brave Woke up in a country who refused to hold your hand Kept falling for narcissists who insist you call them "man" You work late for a job you hate that's never fit the plan Stay low, keep brave
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I love you
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My strange girl, my lonely girl
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) My angry girl, my brave I love you My strange girl, my lonely girl My angry girl, my brave Build yourself a garden and have something to attend Cut off all relations 'cause you could not stand your friends Announced yourself a socialist to have something to defend Oh, young girl, please, don't bullshit me I love you My strange girl, my lonely girl My angry girl, my brave I love you My strange girl, my lonely girl My angry girl, my brave
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Am7
G
Changed how you feel, it's good to break the seal
F
Am7
D
And blow us both away It's changing all the time and it starts to blur the line It's supposed to keep you safe
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F
Am7
D
And you roll like a tidal wave And you roll like a tidal wave I love you My strange girl, my lonely girl My angry girl, my brave I love you My strange girl, my lonely girl My angry girl, my brave

Only The Strong

Only the strong survive Only the strong survive Only the wrong relive their lives We've been here a thousand times Wish I could go back and find Letters I wrote you in my mind Perhaps I could un-knot us from this awful bind Most I have forgot are overrefined Love is a sickness cured by time Love is a sickness cured by time Bruises all end up benign Love is a sickness cured by time I hope that you can change my mind Had to leave this crying all behind I hope that you don't think that I'm unkind So somebody told me, only and only Only the strong will survive Only the strong survive And I won't write a woman with a man on my mind Hope that didn't sound too unkind Just struggling to figure out how only, only Only, only, only the strong can survive Hope that you can change my mind I had to leave this crying all behind I hope that you don't think that I'm unkind It's just somebody told me only and only Only the strong can survive

Blow By Blow

I don't know what else to say I think I did my best Momma's on the phone already talking to the press Tell them that I'm doing fine Underplay distress I'm working out a story and there's so much to address Note by note Blow by blow Seeing it all laid out I should have known I don't know what else to say I think I'm doing fine Tryin' to figure out what I will do with all my time Tell them anything you like I'll own up to what's mine Knowing thunder gives away what lightning tries to hide No one was prepared But we all performed Like we'd done it all before Note by note Bruise by bruise Sometimes the hardest thing to learn Is what you get from what you lose I feel a fool, so do you For believing it could work out Like some things do

Song For Our Daughter

Tuning: DADGBD (Double Drop D)
Though they may want you to tread in their trail Only to see if the path they set fails Though they may want you to take off your clothes Whatever they think that the action exposed With your clothes on the floor Taking advice from some old balding bore You'll ask yourself, "Did I want this at all?" Do you remember what I said? The book I left by your bed The words that some survivor read Lately I've been thinking about our daughter growing old All of the bullshit that she might be told There's blood on the floor Maybe now you'll believe her for sure She remembers what I said The book I left by her bed The words that some survivor read Though they may take you for all you had left You won't be forgotten for what you had not done yet So you wished for a kiss from God And you mourned in your childish loss Innocence gone but it's not forgot You'll get your way through it somehow You remember what I said The book you left by your bed The words that will outlive the dead

Fortune

You took out that money that your momma had saved She told me she kept it for running away Oh my, fortunes can change You've picked up some tricks that you learnt on your way For fear you'd be lonely if you never change Oh my, you lost your faith We landed on rocks and that's partly to blame We wandered the landscape in this unbearable pain Oh my, your fortune can change At least we agree that we've wasted our time We'll give up the hope that we'll meet down the line Better off measured in coffee and wine I think on it fondly now the truth can be told Some love is ancient and it lives on in your soul A fortune that never grows old You spent all that money that your momma had saved Told me she kept it for running away Never quite found the right way to say I'm sorry, my darling, my mind it has been changed Release me from this unbearable pain And so ends a story I had hoped to change I had to release us from this unbearable pain And promise we won't come here again

The End Of The Affair

Max came around one day Very much nothing to say And so we sat in silence by the road It took a while to land He threw his head into his hands And said, "This is too much for man to hold" If you were mine If you were mine I'd let you live Your life Threw my head into his chest I think we did our best But now we must make good on words to God Answered with a weary breath No need to say the rest I fear that we've been lost here for too long If you were mine If you were mine I'd let you live Your life The end of the affair I try to keep us there Shake hands and say goodnight I love you, goodbye Now let me live My life

Hope We Meet Again

I've lived my life in fits and spurts Maybe I've had more than I deserve I'm sure I cannot feel much worse I kept your letter, I read your words I tried to give you love and truth But you're acid-tongued, serpent-toothed I tried to share the map with you But you knew your way, you had your route I will find God in the hands of truth Left my heart with a man in those eastern woods He is people-shy but his words are good And I hope that he won't fade away I should write to him tomorrow, I wrote that yesterday Home, this is not a home anymore You just threw your pieces, they washed up on my shore I have not lived any other way It is my right to wander, I might choose to stay I will find God in the strangest place I saw the sign for the old highway You did cross my mind but it didn't change I do hope that we meet again someday Hope we meet again, I hope you never change I hope that we meet again, hope you never change

For You

I drew pictures of you Long before I met you Just a fragment of my mind I had called out for you Almost every night Precious things are hard to find It was just an evening Much like any else When you came into my life It takes one to know one And I saw you there As I had seen you all my life I thank a God I've never met Never loved, never wanted (For you) I write it so I don't forget Never let it get away I wear a picture of you Just to keep you safe Now that I have you I will not forget What a miracle you are No childish expectation Love is not the answer But the line that marks the start I thank a God I've never met Never loved, never wanted (For you) I write it so I don't forget Never let it get away I keep a picture of you Just to keep you safe I thank a God I've never met Never loved, never wanted I sing it so I won't forget Never let it get away I keep a picture of you Just to keep you safe