Florence And The Machine - All This And Heaven Too

B#7 is played : 446654
C7 is played : 557765
( for the record i’m not 100% sure these are seventh chords , but i needed a way to
distinguish them from the regular ones . )

verse 1 :
E B#7 E
and the heart is hard to translate ,
A E
it has a language of it’s own ,
B#7 E A E
it talks in tongues and quiet sighs and prayers and proclamations ,
B#7 E A E
in the grand days of great men and the smallest of gestures ,
B#7 E
in short shallow gasps .

pre – chorus :
C7
but with all my education ,
E
i can’t seem to commend it ,
C7
and the words are all escaping me ,
E
and coming back all damaged ,
C7
and i would put them back in poetry ,
E
if i only knew how ,
C7 E
i can’t seem to understand it ,

chorus :
C Am
and i would give all this and heaven too ,
F D
i would give it all if only for a moment ,
Am C Am
that i could just understand the meaning of the word you see ,
F
’cause i’ve been scrawling it forever ,
D Am E
but it never makes sense to me at all .

verse 2 :
B#7 E
and it talks to me in tiptoes ,
A E
and sings to me inside ,
B#7 E
it cries out in the darkest night ,
A C7
and breaks in morning light .

pre – chorus :
E
but with all my education ,

i can’t seem to commend it ,
C7 E
and the words are all escaping ,

and coming back all damaged ,
C7 E
and i would put them back in poetry ,
C7
if i only knew how ,
E
i can’t seem to understand it ,

chorus :
C Am
and i would give all this and heaven too ,
F D
i would give it all if only for a moment ,
Am C Am
that i could just understand the meaning of the word you see ,
F
’cause i’ve been scrawling it forever ,
D Am
but it never makes sense to me at all .

bridge :
C Am
mmm . . . mmm . . .
C D
mmm . . . mmm . . .

( play C , Am , C , D once more over “oh”s )

chorus :
C Am
and i would give all this and heaven too ,
F D
i would give it all if only for a moment ,
Am C Am
that i could just understand the meaning of the word you see ,
F
’cause i’ve been scrawling it forever ,
D Am
but it never makes sense to me at all .

outro ( same chord progression as chorus ) :

no , words are a language ,
it doesn’t deserve such treatment ,
and all my stumbling phrases ,
never amounted to anything worth this feeling ,
all this heaven ,
never could describe such a feeling as i’m having ,
words were never so useful ,
so i was screaming out a language that i never knew existed before .

end on C

that is all! : )