The strumming is sightly weird but if you sit down and play along with the song you'll 
it.  The Chords written are pretty well aligned with there time (with the words) but I 
still recomend playing along with the song to get it down "perfectly".

 Verse 1:
             Am                  G                   Bb
After all these implements and texts designed by
 D                            Eb                        F
intellects we're vexed to find evidently there's
             Bb
still so much that hides.
         Cm             G                              Bb
and though the saints dub us divine in ancient
F                            Eb                     F
fading lines their sentiment is just as hard to
Bb
pluck from the vine.

 Chorus:
Ab                                F
I'll try hard not to pretend
Ab                                         F          G
allow myself no mock defence as I

step into the night.

 Verse 2:
Cm      G                                                           F
Since I don't have the time nor mind to figure
                  Eb                            D
out the nursery rhymes that helped us out in
                    Bb
making sense of our lives.
Cm                   G                          Bb            
 F
The cruel, uneventful state of apathy releases me
      Eb               F                                 Bb
I value the but I won't cry every time one's

wiped out.

Chorus:
Ab                                F
I'll try hard not to give in
Ab                                    F                 G
batten down to fare the wind
Am                                        F
rid my head of this pretense
Am                                         F          G
allow myself no mock defence as I

step into the night.

Cm  G   Eb  F  G

G
La la la la
G
La la la la
Eb         Bb
La la la la
Fb   Ab        Bb
La la la la la la

  (Repeat Once)

Eb                         Bb
Mercy' eyes are blue and
Fb           Ab         Bb
when she places them in
Eb       Bb
of you
Fm         Ab          Bb
nothing  holds a roman
Em      Bb
candle to
Fm               Ab                  Bb
the solomn warmth you feel
A          Eb        Ab       Eb
inside.
Ab       Eb        C#     Bb       G

 (No run through Verse chords once)

 Chorus:
Ab                                  F
I'll try hard not to give in
Ab                                           F        G
batten down to fare the wind
Ab                                         F
rid my head of this pretense
Ab                                           F
allow myself no mock defence as I
G
step into the night

Cm  G   Eb   F   G

G
La la la la
G
La la la la
Eb  Bb  Fm     Bb
(This continues till songs end)

(tabs) By Harley Teichman

Amazing song "."