Written by Richards/Augie March
Transcribed by Tim Byron
This is an attempt at a transcription of the track "Here Comes The
Night" from Sunset Studies. It's 6/8, in the key of C, and actually
uses standard tuning for once.
{this is the intro:}
C C/D C/E C/F G G/F G/E G/D
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F G F F/D F F/E F/D F/E
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C C/D C/E C/F G G/A G/B G/C
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F G F Dm7 F F/E F/D F/E
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{now for the verse:}
C Am Em7
Here comes the night
C Am Em F G
Roll on, you careless evening
C Am Em F G
When we unite
C Am
Not a voice concurs
Em F
Not heaven or hell
G Am C
So let it come, let it rain
F G
Let it burn through you and me again
Am C
In the slums without a name
F G
And it isn't only poverty to...
{this guitar part is now played}:
C C/D C/E C/F G G/A G/B G/C
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blame.
F G F Dm7 F F/E F/D F/E
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C Am Em F G
Here comes your man
C Am Em F G
Rolling down the street, your callous fiend
C Am Em F G
He puts it in your hand
C Am Em
And all the world is but a whistle
F G Am
and a milkshake, oh how can you breathe?
Am C F G
Little blue, you have hooks, you have holes
Am C
In your absentium, and in lieu
F G
Of all the things that have been promised you, but
{Now glenn sings over the guitar arpeggio that was in the intro:}
C C/D C/E C/F G G/F G/E G/D
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Oh, how sweet, how in- comp- lete you
F G F Dm7 F F/E F/D F/E
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Are, In your eyes, a
C C/D C/E C/F G G/F G/E G/D
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smile so sweet, a sil- ly sol- diers
F G F Dm7 F F/E F/D F/E
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scar, splits your face from
Am C
Ear to ear
F G
You pretend that you simply cannot hear
Am C
The bells and the bombs
F G
Going off in the gallery
C Am Em F G
Here comes the night, the night
C Am Em F G
Roll on, you careless evening
C Am Em F G
When we unite
C Am
Not a voice concurs
Em F
Not heaven or hell
G Am C
So let it come, let it rain
F G
Let it burn through you and me again
Am C
In the slums without a name
F G
And it isn't only poverty to blame
{the guitar in this section is distorted}:
C C/D C/E C/F G G/F G/E G/D
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Oh, how sweet, how in- comp- lete we
F G F Dm7 F F/E F/D F/E
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Are, In their eyes, am
C C/D C/E C/F G G/F G/E G/D
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I from dust you from my bones im-
F G F Dm7 F F/E F/D F/E
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parted, the aban- don- ment, you
C G C G C G C G
Mother nature's rough replacement
Cm Gm Cm Gm Am D G
How will you whisper again and again? Oh, too late in all
C Am Em F G
Here comes the night,
C Am Em F G
The night, good night
C Am Em F G
Roll on, you night,
C Am Em
Here comes the night,
F G C
The night you never die.