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Games In The Dark

Ben Howard

PopMedium for beginners11 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×
G
A×
Am×
E
F
Em
D××
Dm××
CmDiagram coming soon
Bm×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Verse 1:
N.C 
We played games in the park 
N.C           G           A 
And I want to stay there, 
C 
Close to your heart 
    A             C     Am        C 
And you said "Oh, I can feel your heart beat, " 
C          G 
And I told you, 
G                 C                        E              C       F 
"Sometimes when I stay the night, I find it hard, hard to sleep" 
N.C.   Am            C                      F 
Oh, we played, yeah, like lovers in the moonlight 
C       Am    C               F 
We stay here, stubborn in the softness and the light 
 
Verse 2:
F   C    Em                     Am 
Oh, how close to heaven can you get, 
Am         C   D          F 
Before the sun burns your eyes? 
F   C 
Oh, oh, baby, 
C                              A 
You were like a child when you wept, 
A           G           F 
Oh, through soul sang lullabies 
F 
Eyes, e-e-eyes, Oh, Eyes, e-e-eyes 
 
 
 
F  E       A 
How close to heaven can you get, 
G            C             F 
Be fore the sun burns your eyes? 
F       C 
Oh, oh, mama 
C                              Am 
You were like a child when you wept, 
G                      F 
Oh, through soul sang lullabies 
F 
Eyes, e-e-eyes, Yeah, Eyes, e-e-eyes 
F 
Eyes, e-e-eyes, Eyes, e-e-eyes 
 
Verse 3:
Am        C 
We played games with the distance 
C 
Made phone calls, 
C 
phone calls just to listen 
C 
We held, oh, hands from the start, 
C 
You said "Baby, maybe, maybe, I never want to make your heart less" 
Am       Dm        Am          C 
For now, words get lost in the dark 
C                     D 
For when the morning comes, 
D         Cm              C     F 
That you dropped out the start 
 
 
C                           Am 
How close to heaven can you get, 
Am                        F 
Before the sun burns your eyes? 
F       C 
Oh, oh, baby, 
C        Cm                    Am 
You were like a child when you wept, 
Am  D       Am         F 
Oh, through soul sang lullabies 
F 
Eyes, e-e-eyes, Eyes, e-e-eyes 
 
C                                Am 
Yeah how close to heaven can you get, 
Am C                       F 
Be fore the sun burns your eyes? 
G   F 
Oh, Mama 
C   D    Cm                    Am 
You were like a child when you wept, 
G   Am                 F 
Oh, through soul sang lullabies 
F 
Eyes, e-e-eyes, Yeah, Eyes, e-e-eyes 
 
Bridge: 
F    Am          C 
Yeah under   the same set of stars 
C 
We lay there, worlds apart 
C 
And you still say  "I can feel your heart beat" 
C      Am                              C             G            C      F 
And I still find it hard in the middle of the night, oh, trying to sleep 
Ooo Ooo 
C G Am G 
 
Outro 
C                                   G                       Am 
Oh come, find me when the years get older, find me when the world 
Am     G 
Lights solder to our fire, oh, oh, no 
C                          Bm                        Am 
Find me when the years get older, find me when the world 
Am 
Lights solder to our fire, 
G 
Oh, whoa, Oh whoa, solder... 
G      C 
To our fire 
          
 

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Chord set

C · G · A · Am · E · F · Em · D · Dm · Cm · Bm

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.