Standard tuning 
 
*Verse* 
      C#m 
Wanna hold you like a secret, wanna hold you like a hand 
      A 
Wanna hold you like a prisoner in the arms of my remand 
E          B 
Caught for good 

           C#m 
Because to leave you with those days is never something I could do 
         A 
There'll always be a part of me that needs to be with you 
       E           B    
That's just what's true 
 
C#m                                    A 
There you were black silver dressed in gold 
                      E  
Like every story ever told 
                          B 
A million words in so few sentences 
 
         C#m                             A 
When you spoke to me, it rang out like a song 
                               E         B 
That dared all ears to hear it wrong 
 
         C#m 
To never know, to never see, to never reach a place to be 
         A 
To never understand your way has put a limit on my days 
   E               B 
So long, it's too late 
 
*Chorus* 
          A     E 
So I said heart,  
A       E 
   Translate 
    A      B             A             E 
Cos I dont understand a thing that you say 
 
...and so it continues in the same vein for the rest of the song.  The little outro bit  
("Maybe we'll see it all as it's fading away...") uses the same chord sequence as the chorus. 
Aiii!