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DUNCAN SHEIK


In The Absence Of The Sun

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Standard Tuning: EADGBe

Chords:

A       x02220                     F#9       244300

A9/F#       2x2200                     F#m9       x97990

Bm9       x24430                     F#/Bb       6x467x

Bm9/A       x04430                     F#9/E       044300

Bm7b6       7x5770                     G       320003

Bm/D       xx0432                     GM7       320002

C9/G       332030

C#m9 x42450 or 9x9900

C#7/G#       4x3420

D       xx0232

A                          A9/F#

For all the good you say      it does

Bm9           Bm9/A              G

It seems no better when you've had your say

A                      F#m9

You may believe it's just because

Bm9            Bm9/A              G          GM7

The words get colder when you've  gone away

F#9

I thought I understood

Bm7b6

What I was to      you.

Bridge:

D

I don't want to feel this way

C#m9

I don't want to say I'm just a friend

C9/G

I don't want to wait around here

Bm9

'Cos you don't want to feel no pain again

F#/Bb

We just lie about it

F#9                           G

As we become shadows of ourselves.

A              A9/F#

Some may fear      committed lives,

Bm9        Bm9/A                G

I sure am one  of them without  you.

A                       F#m9

Does it come to you as some surprise?

Bm9          Bm9/A            G           GM7

I laid the ground beneath to  doubt you

F#9

Was it ever girl,

Bm7b6

Something you could      hold?

(Repeat Bridge)

D

I don't want to look away

C#m9

I don't want to be the one denied

C9/G

It ain't no fault of mine

Bm9

Someone, somewhere told you lies

F#/Bb

But we don't talk about it,

F#9                            G

We just become shadows of ourselves.

F#9

But we don't talk about it

We just become shadows of ourselves

Interlude: F#9/E—-Bm/D—-C#7/G#-- Ahh…  Ahh…   Ahh…

(Repeat Bridge)

D

I don't want to look away

C#m9

I don't want to be the one denied

C9/G

It ain't no fault of mine

Bm9

Someone, somewhere told you lies

F#/Bb

But we don't talk about it,

F#9                            G

We just become shadows of ourselves.