Chords for John Martyn - Hurt In Your Heart (2007)

[Gm] _ [G] It [C] kind of makes me wonder if [G#] the deeper the [G] emotion, the more powerful the music.
But how deep can it go?
What happens when you're each rock bottom?
I think I know the very man to [E] answer that question.
[B]
[E] May you never [C#m] lay your [A] head down
[B] [E] Without a hand to hold
[C#m] John Martin [B] has always [E] worn his heart on his sleeve.
He wrote some of the defining British albums of the 70s,
[B] echoing blues and folk influences through unique guitar techniques,
and [Em] he's still going strong in the studio [C#m] today.
He's always been a spontaneous, [F] incurable romantic,
and we've heard all about his darkest moments through his music.
_ [Em] Some [F] people keep diaries.
John [Am] makes records.
[G] _ _ _ I've always written from personal [Am] experience.
Normally, [F] in my case, it would be two o'clock in the morning, drunk,
on my own, with a drum [A#] machine [Am] and [G] a electric guitar.
I'm just greeting, mourning to yourself, and complaining generally.
When do you not [Am] give an ode?
[F] That's basically it.
It's just like, [G] oh, poor miserable [Em] me.
_ [F] It's very [Dm] good for you.
Cleansing of the soul.
_ _ _ [F]
[C] When the [G] heart is gone
[C] When [F] _ _
[Am] the [Em] heart is _ [F] gone
That's what I really like, is the power of the [Em] notes.
It's [F] very good for the head.
[Am] Sometimes you don't have to sing a damn [G] thing,
as long as you're playing and the music is there for you.
_ _ _ [Am]
John's most heartfelt [F] album was Grace In Danger,
released in [A] 1980 after he'd separated from his first wife, Beverly.
[Am] Show me [G] one side
Beverly and John had met and married in the 60s
when both were rising [Am] stars on the folk scene.
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ [Em] They collaborated on a number of [F] albums and started [G] a family,
but sadly, by the end of the [C] 70s, their relationship had fallen apart. _
[F] When the heart [Em] is gone
[F] You have to talk to other people about their divorce.
It's painful.
It's a number that's changing your life.
[Em] Goodbye kids, goodbye Mrs.
[F] Goodbye home, goodbye da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
And there's a fight [Em] against it, but you know it's inevitable.
It's a hard thing, [F] but the songs are really good for you.
Mowing down the microphone [Em] and singing the blues is very good for you.
Mowing down the microphone?
Singing the blues [G] is very, very cathartic.
It does help.
So did you go into the whole thing then [Am] to write these songs as [F] part of a process?
No.
Not at all, straight from my heart.
[G] It's important, I think, [C] when you're in some [G] ghastly emotional state,
to be truthful about you, because if you're not,
then you [C] hurt yourself. _
[F] John's songs are [G] an unavoidable consequence of his [Em] feelings.
In fact, [F] Beverly complained that so [C] much emotion left John through his [Dm] songs
that there wasn't much left for her.
Hurt In Your Heart [Am] is the most emotional song on the [Em] album
and shows just [F] how deeply John was affected, and still is.
When that heart
[Em] Tell [C] me where it's gone
[F] When that [Em] heart
[C] I'm gonna be there all the [G] time
Be there all the time for you
_ [C] Waiting for you to come [A#] sailing through
Like you always [F] do
I know you're gonna fly through, baby
[Am] I will still [G] be your friend
All the way now, all the way now
Through the [Am] river, I'll meet [F] Jesus down there
Jesus [G] down there
[Em] Ah, yeah
[F] Now tell me
[Dm] Tell me when it's all been gone
_ Now tell me
[C] Will it [Em] hurt in your heart
[F] _ Give me a call now
[C] Call my name, [Em] you know I'll be there
[F] Be there all the time
When it hurts
[G] When it heals a hurt in your heart
[Am] When it heals that hurt
[G] Call my name
Don't let it call you now
[Am] The reference [F] to the blues was true.
The blues is like, that's what it is, you know, it's like
you've got a lot to keep [Am] from crying
and sometimes you have to cry [G] just [C] because you have to cry.
[G] That album was the most personal thing I ever [F] did.
I've drawn my horns [C] on it a wee bit since then.
You're saying it's a personal thing, yet it became a huge success as an album.
How does that make you feel, that people have this insight
into your life and how you feel?
I must confess at the time it never occurred to me that [Fm] it was that personal.
[Dm] When it hurts
John, [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
the music and the emotion are inseparable.
So much so that to play that song nearly 30 years on still