🎸 Scare Away The Dark chords by Passenger

Passenger - Scare Away The Dark

Listen to the song so you time the chords correctly, it's difficult to place them
at the right spot in this program.

Capo 6

    E B G D A E
C* =  x 1 x x 3 x
C/g = x 1 x x 2 3
' = Palm mute

Chorus:
  C                     F
So sing, sing at the top of your voice
Am        G             C, C*, C/G
Love, without fear in your heart
C                      F
Feel, feel like you still have a choice
Am                G              C, C*, C/G
If we all light up we can scare away the dark

Verse:
          C
We wish our week days away, spend our weekends in bed
   F
We drink ourselves stupid and work ourselves dead
   Am                   C/G                F  G
and all just because that's what mom and dad said we should do
        C
We should run through the forests, we should dance/swim in the streams
        F
We should laugh we should cry we should love we should dream
        Am                  C/G
We should stare at the stars, and not just at (these) screens
         F                   G
You should hear what I'm saying and know what it means to sing

Chorus:
  C                     F
So sing, sing at the top of your voice
Am        G             C, C*, C/G
Love, without fear in your heart
C                      F
Feel, feel like you still have a choice
Am                G              C, C*, C/G
If we all light up we can scare away the dark

Verse:
       C'
Yeah we wish we were happier, thinner and fitter
   F'
We wish we weren't losers and liars and quitters,
  Am'                      C/G'
We want something more than just nasty and bitter
   F'                      G'
We want something real, not just hashtags and twitter
      C
It's the meaning of life. and it's streams live on youtube
    F
but I bet Gangnam style still get more views
     Am              C/G
we're scared of flying, and swimming and shooters
        F                     G
but we're all slowing dying in front of f****** computers

Chorus:
  C                     F
So sing, sing at the top of your voice
Am        G             C, C*, C/G
Love, without fear in your heart
C                      F
Feel, feel like you still have a choice
Am                G              C, C*, C/G
If we all light up we can scare away the dark

Verse:
      C
and the tv and papers, they fill us with fear
   F
the icecaps are melting and Al-Qaeda is here
    Am               C/G               F         G
now every curtain twitching, suburban is scared of every man that's wearing a turban
          C
you see, the unknown breeds fear, and fear breeds hatred
   F
and hatred is everything that darkness created
      Am                 C/G
when it came in the night, and it strangled the hope
       F                 G
so let's open the windows and turn on the light

Chorus:
  C                     F
So sing, sing at the top of your voice
Am        G             C, C*, C/G
Yeah love, with all of your heart
C                      F
Feel, feel like you still have a choice
Am                G              C, C*, C/G
If we all light up we can scare away the dark

Outro:
      C                     F
Oh and sing, sing at the top of your voice
   Am        G             C, C*, C/G
And love without fear in your heart
C                     F
Feel, feel like you still have a choice
    Am            G              C