D#mG#mF#BF#BC#D
you are the girl with a black heeeeart
D#mG#mF#BF#BC#D
you are the stars; you are the giiirl with a bright light, yeah I see it shine
D#mG#mF#BF#BC#D
you find yourself wrapped up in a black art
D#mG#mF#BF#BC#D
you bear the scars, you are the giiirl with a black heart, yeah I see it shine
D#mF#mBmC#
I watch your sun set and then you lift the moon
D#mF#mBmC#D#mF#m
into a sky on fire, and the colours that you choose, to court and spark, oh!
BmC#
to ignite the daark
D#mF#mBmC#Bm
burnin up in the bright liight of your black heart
F#BmF#BmC#D
your black heaaaarrt
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you shrug the coat off of your shoulders
your bones harden in the breeze
billowing smoke, white ghosts are bowed ribbons
through the shivering leaves
D#m N.C. BmC#D#m
you breathe a big wind. you sing of ice and snow
F#mBm
shutting up them hungry dogs
C#D#m
you come and bury their bones
F#mBmC#
you bathe them bright white in the shadows
D#mF#mBmC#Bm
burning up in the bright light of your black heart
F#BmF#BmC#D
your black heaaaaarrt
( D ) F#BmF#Bm
and i want you to believe everything that i say
F#BmF#Bm
and i want you to believe in the good that you do, yeah
F#BmF#BmF#BmF#
and the beauty of a black heart, is the light shining through
BmF#BmF#
and the light is you
BmF#BmC#
and the light is yoooooooou
DD#m
and the light is you
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.