Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part chords

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
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1. As I Sat Sadly By Her Side (Cave)

Intro:   Am   F   Am   F

AmAs I sat sadly by her side
FAt the window, through the glass
AmShe stroked a kitten in her lap
FAnd we watched the world as it fell past
AmSoftly she spoke these words to me
FAnd with brand new eyes, open wide
AmWe pressed our faces to the glass
F G AmAs I sat sadly by her side
She said, "Father, mother, sister, brother, Uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, Soldier, sailor, physician, labourer, Actor, scientist, mechanic, priest Earth and moon and sun and stars Planets and comets with tails blazing All are there forever falling Falling lovely and amazing" Then she smiled and turned to me And waited for me to reply Her hair was falling down her shoulders As I sat sadly by her side As I sat sadly by her side The kitten she did gently pass Over to me and again we pressed Our different faces to the glass "That may be very well", I said "But watch the one falling in the street See him gesture to his neighbours See him trampled beneath their feet All outward motion connects to nothing For each is concerned with their immediate need Witness the man reaching up from the gutter See the other one stumbling on who can not see" With trembling hand I turned toward her And pushed the hair out of her eyes The kitten jumped back to her lap As I sat sadly by her side Then she drew the curtains down And said, "When will you ever learn That what happens there beyond the glass Is simply none of your concern? God has given you but one heart You are not a home for the hearts of your brothers And God does not care for your benevolence Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others Nor does he care for you to sit At windows in judgement of the world He created While sorrows pile up around you Ugly, useless and over-inflated" At which she turned her head away Great tears leaping from her eyes I could not wipe the smile from my face As I sat sadly by her side 2. No More Shall We Part (Cave)
Bb7 A7 DmAnd no more shall we part
Bb7 A7 DmIt will no longer be necessary
F Gm CAnd no more will I say, dear heart
C7 Bb7 A7 DmI am alone and she has left me
Bb7 A7 DmAnd no more shall we part
Bb7 A7 DmThe contracts are drawn up, the ring is locked upon the finger
F Gm CAnd never again will my letters start
Bb7 A7 DmSadly, or in the depths of winter
Bb7 A7 DmAnd no more shall we part
Bb7 A7 Dm All the hatchets have been buried now
F Gm And all of birds will sing to your
Cbeautiful heart
Bb7 A7 DmUpon the bough
Bb7 A7 DmAnd no more shall we part
Bb7 A7 DmYour chain of command has been silenced now
F Gm CAnd all of those birds would've sung to your beautiful heart
Bb7 A7 DmAnyhow
F CLord, stay by me
Gm CDon't go down
F CI will never be free
Gm CIf I'm not free now
Lord, stay by me
Gm CDon't go down
F CI never was free
Gm CWhat are you talking about?
Bb7 A7 DmFor no more shall we part
Bb7 A7 DmAnd no more shall we part
3. Hallelujah (Cave/Ellis) Intro: Am G Am G
AmOn the first day of May I took to the road
GI'd been staring out the window most of the morning
Am I'd watched the rain claw at the glass
GAnd a vicious wind blew hard and fast
Am I should have taken it as a warning
GAs a warning
Am As a warning
GAs a warning
I'd given my nurse the weekend off My meals were ill prepared My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb And my piano crouched in the corner of my room With all its teeth bared All its teeth bared All its teeth bared All its teeth bared. Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Bridge: Bb F Em D Bb F D# D I left my house without my coat Something my nurse would not have allowed And I took the small roads out of town And I passed a cow and the cow was brown And my pyjamas clung to me like a shroud Like a shroud Like a shroud Like a shroud There rose before me a little house With all hope and dreams kept within A woman's voice close to my ear Said, "Why don't you come in here?" "You looked soaked to the skin" Soaked to the skin Soaked to the skin Soaked to the skin Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah I turned to the woman and the woman was young I extended a hearty salutation But I knew if my nurse had been here She would never in a thousand years Permit me to accept that invitation Invitation That invitation That invitation Now, you might think it wise to risk it all Throw caution to the reckless wind But with her hot cocoa and her medication My nurse had been my one salvation So I turned back home I turned back home I turned back home Singing my song Hallelujah The tears are welling in my eyes again Hallelujah I need twenty big buckets to catch them in Hallelujah And twenty pretty girls to carry them down Hallelujah And twenty deep holes to bury them in Hallelujah The tears are welling in my eyes again Hallelujah I need twenty big buckets to catch them in Hallelujah And twenty pretty girls to carry them down Hallelujah And twenty deep holes to bury them in 4. Love Letter (Cave)
Eb AbI hold this letter in my hand
EbA plea, a petition, a kind of prayer
AbI hope it does as I have planned
Losing her again is more than I can bear
Eb AbI kiss the cold, white envelope
EbI press my lips against her name
AbTwo hundred words. We live in hope
EbThe sky hangs heavy with rain
Eb AbLove Letter Love Letter
Eb AbGo get her Go get her
Eb ALove Letter Love Letter
Eb Bb - AbGo tell her Go tell her
Eb AbA wicked wind whips up the hill
EbA handful of hopeful words
AbI love her and I always will
The sky is ready to burst
Eb Said something I did not mean to say
AbSaid something I did not mean to say
EbSaid something I did not mean to say
AbIt all came out the wrong way
Eb AbLove Letter Love letter
Eb AbGo get her Go get her
Eb AbLove Letter Love letter
Eb Bb - AbGo tell her Go tell her
Rain your kisses down upon me Rain your kisses down in storms And for all who'll come before me In your slowly fading forms I'm going out of my mind Will leave me standing in The rain with a letter and a prayer Whispered on the wind
Bb AbCome back to me
Bb AbCome back to me
Bb Ab Bb EbO baby please come back to me
5. Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow (Cave) Where is Mona?
AmShe's long gone
AmWhere is Mary?
She's taken her along But they haven't put their mittens on
G AmAnd there's fifteen feet of pure white snow?
AmWhere is Michael?
Where is Mark? Where is Mathew Now it's getting dark? Where is John? They are all out back
G AmUnder fifteen feet of pure white snow
GWould you please put down that telephone
AmWe're under fifteen feet of pure white snow
I waved to my neighbour My neighbour waved to me But my neighbour Is my enemy I kept waving my arms Till I could not see Under fifteen feet of pure white snow Is anybody Out there please? It's too quiet in here And I'm beginning to freeze I've got icicles hanging From my knees Under fifteen feet of pure white snow
AmIs there anybody here who feels this low?
G AmUnder fifteen feet of pure white snow
GRaise your hands up to the sky
Raise your hands up to the sky Raise your hands up to the sky Is it any wonder?
Am FOh my Lord Oh my Lord
Am F - G - AmOh my Lord Oh my Lord
Doctor, Doctor I'm going mad This is the worst day I've ever had I can't remember Ever feeling this bad Under fifteen feet of pure white snow Where's my nurse I need some healing I've been paralysed By a lack of feeling I can't even find Anything worth stealing Under fifteen feet of pure white snow Is there anyone else here who doesn't know? We're under fifteen feet of pure white snow Raise your hands up to the sky Raise your hands up to the sky Raise your hands up to the sky Is it any wonder? Oh my Lord Oh my Lord Oh my Lord Oh my Lord Save Yourself! Help Yourself! Save Yourself! Help Yourself! Save Yourself! Help Yourself! Save Yourself! Help Yourself! 6. God Is in the House (Cave)
CWe've laid the cables and the wires
CWe've split the wood and stoked
the fires
CWe've lit our town so there is no
F Place for crime to hide
DmOur little church is painted white
GAnd in the safety of the night
We all go quiet as a mouse For the word is out
CGod is in the house
FGod is in the house
DmGod is in the house
GNo cause for worry now
CGod is in the house
Moral sneaks in the White House Computer geeks in the school house Drug freaks in the crack house We don't have that stuff here We have a tiny little Force But we need them of course For the kittens in the trees And at night we are on our knees As quiet as a mouse For God is in the house God is in the house God is in the house And no one's left in doubt God is in the house Homos roaming the streets in packs Queer bashers with tyre-jacks Lesbian counter-attacks That stuff is for the big cities Our town is very pretty We have a pretty little square We have a woman for a mayor Our policy is firm but fair Now that God is in the house God is in the house God is in the house Any day now He'll come out God is in the house Well-meaning little therapists Goose-stepping twelve-stepping Tetotalitarianists The tipsy, the reeling and the drop down pissed We got no time for that stuff here Zero crime and no fear We've bred all our kittens white So you can see them in the night And at night we're on our knees As quiet as a mouse Since the word got out From the North down to the South For no-one's left in doubt There's no fear about If we all hold hands and very quietly shout Hallelujah God is in the house God is in the house Oh I wish He would come out God is in the house 7. Oh My Lord (Cave)
Em I thought I'd take a walk today
DIt's a mistake I sometimes make
EmMy children lay asleep in bed
DMy wife lay wide-awake
EmI kissed her softly on the brow
DI tried not to make a sound
EmBut with stony eyes she looked at me
DAnd gently squeezed my hand
Em DCall it a premonition, call it a crazy vision
Em DCall it intuition, something learned from mother
Em DBut when she looked up at me, I could clearly see
Em D EmThe Sword of Damocles hanging directly above her
D Em Oh Lord Oh my Lord
DOh Lord
G G7How have I offended thee?
C CmWrap your tender arms around me
G DOh Lord Oh Lord
Em DOh My Lord
They called at me through the fence They were not making any sense They claimed that I had lost the plot Kept saying that I was not The man I used to be They held their babes aloft Threw marsh mellows at the Security And said that I'd grown soft Call it intuition, call it a creeping suspicion, But their words of derision meant they hardly knew me For even I could see in the way they looked at me The Spear of Destiny sticking right through me Oh Lord Oh my lord Oh Lord How have I offended thee? Wrap your tender arms round me Oh Lord Oh lord Oh My Lord Now I'm at the hairdressers People watch me as they move past A guy wearing plastic antlers Presses his bum against the glass Now I'm down on my hands and knees And it's so fucking hot! Someone cries, "What are you looking for?" I scream, "The plot, the plot!" I grab my telephone, I call my wife at home She screams, "Leave us alone!" I say, "Hey, it's only me" The hairdresser with his scissors, he holds up the mirror I look back and shiver; I can't even believe what I can see Be mindful of the prayers you send Pray hard but pray with care For the tears that you are crying now Are just your answered prayers The ladders of life that we scale merrily Move mysteriously around So that when you think you're climbing up, man In fact you're climbing down Into the hollows of glamour, where with spikes and hammer With telescopic camera, they chose to turn the screw Oh I hate them, Ma! Oh I hate them, Pa! Oh I hate them all for what they went and done to you Oh Lord Oh my Lord Oh Lord How have I offended thee? Wrap your tender arms round me Oh Lord Oh Lord Oh My Lord 8. Sweetheart Come (Cave/Adamson) Come over here, babe
CIt ain't that bad
GI don't claim to understand
AmThe troubles that you've had
AmBut the dogs you say they fed you to
CLay their muzzles in your lap
GAnd the lions that they led you to
AmLie down and take a nap
AmThe ones you fear are wind and air
CAnd I love you without measure
GIt seems we can be happy now
AmBe it better late than never
AmSweetheart, come (2x)
CSweetheart, come (2x)
GSweetheart, come (2x)
AmSweetheart, come to me
The burdens that you carry now Are not of your creation So let's not weep for their evil deeds But for their lack of imagination Today's the time for courage, babe Tomorrow can be for forgiving And if he touches you again with his stupid hands His life won't be worth living Sweetheart, come Sweetheart, come Sweetheart, come Sweetheart, come to me Walk with me now under the stars For it's a clear and easy pleasure And be happy in my company For I love you without measure Walk with me now under the stars It's a safe and easy pleasure It seems we can be happy now It's late but it ain't never It's late but it ain't never It's late but it ain't never 9. The Sorrowful Wife (Cave)
AmI married my wife on the day of the eclipse
DmOur friends awarded her courage with gifts
AmNow as the nights grow longer and the season shifts
GI look to my sorrowful wife
F G AmWho is quietly tending her flowers
F GWho is quietly tending her.....
(played over piano solo) Am - Dm - Am - Dm - F - G - Am - Dm - Am - Dm
AmThe water is high on the beckoning river
DmI made her a promise I could not deliver
AmAnd the cry of the birds sends a terrible shiver
GThrough me and my sorrowful wife
F G AmWho is shifting the furniture around
F GWho is shifting the furniture around
(played over piano solo) Am - Dm - Am - Dm - F - G - Am - Dm - Am - Dm
AmNow we sit beneath the knotted Yew
DmAnd the bluebells bob around our shoes
AmThe task of remembering the telltale clues
GGoes to my lovely, my sorrowful wife
F G AmWho is counting the days on her fingers
F G DmWho is counting the days on her.....
AmCome on and help me babe
DmCome on now
AmHelp me babe
DmI was blind
F The grass here grows long and high
GTwists right up to the sky
Am DmWhite clouds roll on by
AmCome on now and help me babe
DmI was blind
AmI was a fool babe
DmI was blind
Come on now
FA loose wind last night blew down
GBlack trees bent to the ground
Am DmTheir blossoms made such a sound
That I could not hear myself think babe Come on now And help me babe Help me now I was blind I was a fool 10. We Came Along This Road (Cave)
Am FI left by the back door
G DmWith my wife's lover's smoking gun
Am FI don't know what I was hoping for
G DmI hit the road at a run
Am FI was your lover
G DmI was your man
Am FThere never was no other
G DmI was your friend
CTill we came along this road
GTill we came along this road
AmTill we came along this road
Am - F - G - Dm I ain't sent you no letters, Ma But I'm looking quite a trip The world spinning beneath me, Ma Guns blazing at my hip You were my lover You were my friend There never was no other On whom I could depend Then we came along this road We came along this road We came along this road 11. Gates of the Garden (Cave)
AmPast the ivy-covered windows of The Angel
Dm GDown Athenaeum Lane to the cathedral
AmTrough the churchyard I wandered
Dm GSat for a spell there and I pondered
F G My back to the gates
F GMy back to the gates
F G CMy back to the gates of the garden
AmFugitive fathers, sickly infants, decent mothers
Dm GRunaways and suicidal lovers
AmAssorted boxes of ordinary bones
Dm GOf aborted plans and sudden shattered hopes
F GIn unlucky rows
F GIn unhappy rows
F G C F - GIn unlucky rows, up to the gates of the garden
C GWon't you meet me at the gates
C GWon't you meet me at the gates
C GWon't you meet me at the gates
CTo the garden
Beneath the creeping shadow of the tower The bell from St.Edmunds informs me of the hour I turn to find you waiting there for me In sunlight and I see the way that you breathe Alive and leaning on the gates of the garden Alive and leaning on the gates of the garden Alive and leaning on the gates of the garden Leave these ancient places to the angels Let the saints attend to their keeping of the cathedrals And leave the dead beneath the ground so cold For God is in this hand that I hold As we open up the gates of the garden Won't you meet me at the gates Won't you meet me at the gates Won't you meet me at the gates To the garden 12. Darker With the Day (Cave/Ellis)
GAs so with that, I thought I'd take a final walk
G7The tide of public opinion had started to abate
CThe neighbours, bless them, had
turned out to be all talk
CmI could see their frightened faces
peering at me trough the gate I was looking for an end to this, for some kind of closure Time moved so rapidly, I had no hope of keeping track of it I thought of my friends who had died of exposure And I remembered other ones who had died from the lack of it And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street I stopped at a church and jostled trough the crowd And love followed just behind me panting at my feet At the steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud Inside I sat, seeking the presence of a God I searched trough the pictures in a leather-bound book I found a woolly lamb dozing in an issue of blood And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook
G G7Babe, it seems so long
C Cm BbSince you've been gone away And I
FJust got to say
Gm F Eb D GThat it grows darker with the day
Back on the street I saw a great big smiling sun It was a Good day and an Evil day and all was bright and new And it seemed to me that most destruction was beeing done By those who could not choose between the two Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones The streets groan with little Caesars, Napoleons and cunts With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones Counting on their fingers, with crumbs down their fronts I passed by your garden, saw you with your flowers The Mangolias, Camellias and Azaleas so sweet And I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds You looked so beatiful in the rising heat I smell smoke, see little fires bursting on the lawns People carry on regardless, listening to their hands Great cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns Bored and disgusted, to do us down Babe It seems so long Since you've been gone And I Just got to say That it grows darker with the day These streets are frozen now I come and go Full of a longing for something I do not know My father sits slumped in the deepening snow As I search, in and out, above, about, below Babe It seems so long Since you went away And I Just got to say That it grows darker with the day Credit to http://bdenes.mnsi.net
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