Chords for Dermot Kennedy "the killer was a coward" live on the lake

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[Gm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ You [Gm] see the killer [C] was a coward, _ dark deeds in dark towers
_ [Bb] So he [Gm] fled when they [C] came, _ _
[Bb] blowing brass, [Bb] carrying chains
_ They wanna lock him in the dark, _ _ [G] they wanna kill what's [Bb] in his heart
_ And they left the town to hunt him down, _ _ they left one man to hold it down _
But when they get back [C] he's in the throne, _ looks like the killer's fucking cloned
_ [Gm] Says he's got ideas of [C] his own, _ _ [Bb] but there's one thing he [F] killed to know
_ See there's a hero in [C] the crowd, _ _
[Bb] and his heart [C] starts beating loud
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Says the killer took his friend, _ and [Gm] decides that this is [Bb] where it ends
_ [F] So the night the [C] king's walking the tower, _ [Bbm] his eyes lit up with [F] all the power _
[Bbm] And the hero's [C] ghosting by the guards, _ [Bbm] and his heart it's carrying [C] a charge
_ [Gm] He stabs him in his [C] cunning heart, _ _ [F] the [G] scream tore sea and [C] sky apart
[Bbm] _ So you want fears, we've [F] still got several, _
[G] at least the killer's dancing [C] with the devil _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ And the hero [Bb] did it for days when you don't [F] know if the moon will even come
And then it lays down and I'm telling you [C] man it's sweet when it does
And when [Bb] I think of you [C] I think of spirit [Bb] defined
I think of all the love that we shared [F] in a very dark [G] time
So the hero did it [F] for the summer, _ _ for [Gm] long days with that [F] sun in your hair
[F] For [Gm] fires and family, [Eb] _ [Bb] for [Gm] the phrase don't ever [F] leave me _ _ _ _
[Bb] The sorrow won't be finding me no [F] more, _ [Bb]
sorrow [Gm] won't be finding me [F] no more
_ Sorrow won't be finding me no more when you come and haul now
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _