How Long Chords

Intro Picking Pattern (Gm Shape):
 
e|---------------------|
B|-------3-3-----------|
G|-----3-3-3-------2-3-|
A|---5-------5---5-----|
A|-5-----------5-------|
E|---------------------|
 
[Verse 1: PERSEPHONE]
 
Gm                 F
Hades, my husband, Hades, my light
Cm            Gm
Hades, my darkness
Gm                      Bb
If you had heard how he sang tonight
      F           Gm
You’d pity poor Orpheus!
 
[Chorus 1: PERSEPHONE]
 
Gm                      Bb         D
All of his sorrow won’t fit in his chest
        Gm                       Bb         D
It just burns like a fire in the pit of his chest
        Gm                   Bb          D
And his heart is a bird on a spit in his chest
    Gm        F
How long, how long, how long?
 
 
[Verse 2: HADES]
 
Gm                        F
How long? Just as long as Hades is King
Cm                          Gm
Nothing comes of wishing on stars
Gm                       Bb
And nothing comes of the songs people sing
F                  Gm
However sorry they are
 
[Chorus 2: HADES]
 
Gm                            Bb      D
Give them a piece and they’ll take it all
Gm                              Bb            D
Show them the crack and they’ll tear down the wall
Gm                       Bb           D
Lend them an ear and the Kingdom will fall
    Gm           F          Gm
The Kingdom will fall for a song
 
 
[Verse 3: PERSEPHONE]
 
Gm                        F
What does he care for the logic of kings?
    Bb                Gm
The laws of your underworld?
Gm             Bb
It is only for love that he sings!
   F                       Gm
He sings for the love of a girl!
 
 
[Chorus 3: HADES]
 
Gm                      Bb        D
You and your pity don’t fit in my bed
         Gm                      Bb        D
You just burn like a fire in the pit of my bed
      Gm                    Bb         D
And I turn like a bird on a spit in my bed
    Gm        F         Gm
How long, how long, how long?
 
 
[Verse 4: PERSEPHONE]
 
Gm                        F
How long? Just as long as I am your wife
     Cm                  Gm
It’s true the earth must die
Gm                       Bb
But then the earth comes back to life
        F                Gm
And the sun just goes on rising
 
 
[Chorus 4: HADES & PERSEPHONE]
 
Gm                        Bb         D
And how does the sun even fit in the sky?
        Gm                       Bb         D
It just burns like a fire in the pit of the sky
        Gm                   Bb          D
And the earth is a bird on a spit in the sky
    Gm        F         Gm
How long, how long, how long?
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