Standard (EADGBE)

My darling, I loved you

 I long to become you

 And know what it is that you gave

We dance the sorrow

 Forgive me tomorrow

 And I pray night after night and day after day

 Would you watch my body weaken

 And my mind drift away?

Dear lover forsaken, our love is taken away

You were my speaker, my innocence-keeper

 I don't night after night, day after day

 Would you watch my body weaken,

 My mind drift away?

Dear lover forgiven, my love is driven by rage

Oh I should just leave you, instead I've deceived you

But I don't, night after night, day after day

Would you watch my body weaken

my mind drift away?

I count to no one, hold nobody's ear

 I sold you my hand once and you hit me in fear

 I don't stand for the devil

 I don't whisper in ears

 I stand on the mountains and call people to hear

It's a sudden burst of light, it's a fate foretold

 It is knowing, it is knowing

 He longs for the answers, as all of us must

 He longs for the woman who will conquer his lust

 He screams in the night, I scream in the day

 We weep in the evening and lie naked and pray

Night after night, day after day

 Night after night, day after day

 Could you watch my body weaken,

 and my mind drift away?

It's a tempting communion

 It's a fate foretold

 It is knowing, it is knowing

  (play around with picking pattern, hammering 3 on the high d string)

 What it is that you're told Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm