Berlin chords by Marillion

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: Gm

The intro vamps on 4 chords.
For the first 4 bars it's Gm to F (Riff 1)

Set a delay for quarternotes, with 3-4 repeats and plenty of mix and play "off it" to fill out the sound.
Let the delay do the heavy lifting.

Intro:


Riff 1: x 2
e|---------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------|
G|----3-3-2-2-----2-2-----3-3-2-2----2-2-|
D|3-5---------3-3-----3-5---------3-3----|
A|---------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|

Riff 2: x 2
e|---------------------------------------|
B|--4-4-3-3----3-3---4-4-3-3----3-3------|
G|5--------3-3––––3–5––––––––3–3––––3–5––|
D|-----------––––––––––––––––––––––––––––|
A|---------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|





Verse 1:
Gm      F   Gm        F
The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar
Gm    F    Gm      F
Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze
Cm      Bb    Cm       Bb
Black leather crackles and cold water runs
Cm         Bb     Cm     Bb
As she touches the walls of her memory maze

Verse 2:
Gm         F     Gm       F
And the shadows of men she has known fill her day
Gm         F      Gm     F
She's held half the world in her arms so they say
Cm        Bb      Cm         Bb
But she wakes up without them with a hole in her heart
Cm         Bb    Cm          Bb
And she puts on her clothes lives her life behind bars

Instrumental:
Dm – C
(Riff 3)

Riff 3: x 2
e|--------------------------------------–––-|
B|--6-6-5-5----–5-5---––6-6-5-5----–5-5-----|
G|7--------–5-5–––––5–6–––––––––5–5–––––5–5–|
D|-----------–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––|
A|--------------------------------------–––-|
E|--------------------------------------–––-|

Verse 3:
Gm      F   Gm        F
The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar
Gm      F   Gm        F
Sighs at the skylight gets lost in the haze
Cm      Bb      Cm     Bb
Black leather crackles and cold water runs
Cm       Bb     Cm     Bb
As she touches the walls of her memory maze

Instrumental:
Em - Bm – C – D x2

Verse 4:
Em     Bm       C     D
Someone got stranded in no man's land
Em       Bm        C        D
Dancing in the spotlight to the sound of clapping hands
Em   Bm        C      D
Nobody knows who's side he was on
Em          Bm     C       D
It's a risk that you take in no man's land
Em   Bm       C      D
Nobody knows what made him decide
Em     Bm       C     D
To run for freedom and to certain suicide
Em           Bm         C      D
When they turn off the guns and his fingers uncurl
Em        Bm       C      D
He's clutching a photograph of a Berlin party girl

Verse 5:

Play the Esus4–E section like this:

e|--------5--------------4---------------|
B|--------5--------------5---------------|
G|----4---4----------4---4---------------|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|

Esus4            E
Come in from your checkpoints on your lonely roads
Esus4            E
Come in from your ditches in your silent fields
Esus4            E
Where intensified light from a rifle sight
Esus4            E
Makes the darkness day, and the day too bright

Instrumental:
Esus4 E

Verse 6:
Esus4     E
And we wake up without you
Esus4     E
We wake up without you
Esus4     E
And we wake up without you
Esus4     E
We wake up without you

Verse 7:
Gm         F
With a hole in our hearts
Gm         F
With a hole in our hearts

Instrumental:
Gm F

Verse 8:
Gm           F (Fsus4)
You mad dog shaven head bottle-boy freaks
Gm          F (Fsus4)
In Martens and khaki, drunk on sake
Cm              Bb (Bbsus4)
You stare at yourself in the cruel flush of dawn
Cm           Bb (Bbsus4)
Terrified, sunken eyed, withered and drawn
Gm           F (Fsus4)
The butcher, the baker, the munitions maker
Gm           F (Fsus4)
The over-achiever, the armistice breaker
Cm            Bb (Bbsus4)
The freebase instructor, the lightning conductor
Cm             Bb (Bbsus4)
The psycho, the sailor, the tanker, the tailor
Gm
The black market mailer
F (Fsus4)
The quick and the dead
Gm
The spotlight dancer
F (Fsus4)
The quick and the dead
Gm        F
The quick and the dead
Gm        F
The quick and the dead

Instrumental:
Gm F

Verse 9:
Cm          Bb
We wake up without you
Cm          Bb
We wake up without you
Gm         F
With a hole in our hearts
Gm         F

Guitar solo:
Cm Bb
Gm F

Outro:
Gm
The mascara'd blonde
Gm        F
From the Berliner bar
Eb    F    G5
Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze