• Song:

    Splintering Heart

  • Artist:

    Marillion

A5 
There's a hot hard hurt burning under her skin 

And it pricks her like thorns and it's needles and pins 

And it twists in her body and I know what it is 


D5 

        A5                       D5 
And I'm paying in pain, it's the cost of the high 
         A5                           D5 
Till the weight of the secret and the weight of the lie 
         A5                            D5 
Makes my heart want to burst, feel the ache as time goes by 
        A5                        D5 
Getting better and worse, getting better and worse 


              A5                        D5 
And there's a screw that I tighten as I dream of the kiss 
       A5                            D5 
And it twists and it cuts me and you know what it is? 
       F5                       G5 
It's a fragment of love from a splintering heart 
       F5                  G5 
And it tears her apart, yeah, but not as much as this 

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A5  D5  A5  D5  A5  D5  A5  D5 

       A5                 D5         A5            D5 
So you save up your tears   for the moments alone 
         A5                   D5        A5                     D5 
Till the splinters you gather   leave you glass-hard and numb 
        G5               Eb5        D5             C5 
And the same sun is shining     on the old and the young 
       G5                  Eb5        D5               C5 
On the saints and the sinners,    on the weak and the strong 


G5  Eb5  D5  C5  G5  Eb5  D5  C5  G5  Eb5  G5  Eb5  F5 

G5  Eb5  G5  D5  G5  C5  Eb5  F5 

              G5                   Eb5       G5               D5 
And there's a burning and freezing        and a cross for a kiss 
       G5                      C5           Eb5           F5 
So she learns to stop dreaming    and you know how it is 
           G5                Eb5          G5             D5 
With these fragments of love        and this splintering heart 
         G5    C5           Eb5                F5        G5 
With the fragments and this    splintering heart
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