Artist: | Nick Cave (English) |
User: | Alex B |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Default |
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Comment: | - |
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
Bm
Take a little walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks
Bm
Where the viaduct looms like a bird of doom as it shifts and cracks
Em
Where secrets lie in the border fires, in the humming wires
Hey man, you know you're never coming back
Bm
Past the square, past the bridge, past the mills, past the stacks
F#7
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
E7
In a dusty black coat with a red right hand
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[Verse 2]
Bm
He'll wrap you in his arms, tell you that you've been a good boy
Bm
He'll rekindle all the dreams it took you a lifetime to destroy
Em
He'll reach deep into the hole, heal your shrinking soul
But there won't be a single thing that you can do
Bm
He's a god, he's a man, he's a ghost, he's a guru
F#7
They're whispering his name through this disappearing land
E7
But hidden in his coat is a red right hand
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[Verse 3]
Bm
You don't have no money, he'll get you some
Bm
You don't have no car, he'll get you one
Em
You don't have no self-respect, you feel like an insect
Bm
Well, don't you worry buddy 'cause here he comes
Through the ghettos and the barrio and the bowery and the slum
F#7
A shadow is cast wherever he stands
E7
Stacks of green paper in his red right hand
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[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
Bm
You'll see him in your nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams
Bm
He'll appear out of nowhere but he ain't what he seems
Em
You'll see him in your head, on the TV screen
Hey buddy, I'm warning you to turn it off
Bm
He's a ghost, he's a god, he's a man, he's a guru
F#7
You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan
E7
Designed and directed by his red right hand
[Ending]
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