The Dark Night Of The Soul

	  		
Intro: The first couplet's chords can be used as an intro.  

1st Couplet  
Bm     A/C#     D  
Upon a darkened night  
     G       D/F#     Em      A      D 
the flame of love was burning in my breast  
    Bm   A/C#    D  
And by a lantern bright  
   G      D/D#        Em      A    D  
I fled my house while all in quiet rest  

2nd Couplet  
 Bm      G      D/F#  
Shrouded by the night  
    G      D/F#    Em              A  
and by the secret stair I quickly fled  
    Bm       G        A  
The veil concealed my eyes  
      Bm     G       D/F#  A      D  
while all within lay quiet as the dead  

Bm         A/C#   D 
Oh night thou was my guide  
   Bm          G     D/F#     A      Bm  
oh night more loving than the rising sun  
   Bm          G         D/F#  
Oh night that joined the lover  
          A  
to the beloved one  
    Bm       G       D      A      D  
transforming each of them into the other
 

 Bm       A/C#  D 
Upon that misty night 
   G   D/F#   Em        A      D 
In secrecy, beyond such mortal sight 
   G      A/C#      D  
Without a guide or light 
      G         D/F#      Em     A      D 
Than that which burned so deeply in my heart  


  Bm         G     D/F#    
That fire t'was led me on 
     G         D/F#        Em            A 
And shone more bright than of the midday sun  
   Bm       G       A 
To where he waited still 
   Bm     G          D/F#   A          D 
It was a place where no one else could come  


Bm         A/C#   D 
Oh night thou was my guide  
   Bm          G     D/F#     A      Bm  
oh night more loving than the rising sun  
   Bm          G         D/F#  
Oh night that joined the lover  
          A  
to the beloved one  
    Bm       G       D/F#    A      D  
transforming each of them into the other
 

   G      A/D#     D  
Within my pounding heart 
      G      D/F#   Em  A      D 
which kept itself entirely for him  
    G    A/C#      D 
He fell into his sleep 
   G        D/F#   Em      A     D 
beneath the cedars all my love I gave  
    Bm      G       D/F# 
And by the fortress walls 
    G          D/F#      Em               A 
the wind would brush his hair against his brow 
    Bm         G       A 
And with its smoothest hand 
  Bm        G     D/F#     A       D 
caressed my every sense it would allow  

Bm         A/C#   D 
Oh night thou was my guide  
   Bm          G     D/F#     A      Bm  
oh night more loving than the rising sun  
   Bm          G         D/F#  
Oh night that joined the lover  
          A  
to the beloved one  
    Bm       G       D/F#    A      D  
transforming each of them into the other
 


  Bm     A/C#    D 
I lost myself to him  
     G      D/F#  Em      A      D  
and laid my face upon my lovers breast  
    Bm        A/C#       D 
And care and grief grew dim  
   G      D/F#     Em      A        D  
as in the mornings mist became the light  

Bm          G       D/F#       A     D 
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair  
Bm          G       D/F#       A     Bm  
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair  
Bm          G       D/F#       A     D  
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair.