Tonart: A minor
Intro 1
Adim
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Bb
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Adim
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Adim
Verse 1
Adim
Big city Europa,
Am
July of '64, it's 5 A.M.
Bb
Weather blowing bitter off the Baltic
Verse 2
Bb
Car slows beside him as he walks
Hubcaps slow revolution
Am
Jaundiced-looking pockmarked pockmarked face,
round in window
Adim
Short greasy black beard
B
Adim
Couple of language stabs, settle on English
Verse 3
Am
"It's cold, I'll give you a ride
Bb
Don't you want to kiss
me?"
Am
Verse 4
Adim
This goes on halfway across
the cobbled bridge
gets out by the construction fence
Bb
Ambles towards him rubbing the bulge
in his pants
Am
Verse 5
Adim
In his jacket is the revolver
Am
The hand is already in the pocket
for warmth
Verse 6
And fingers slide easily around wood grips
Bb
Slow as that predator's footsteps
the gun comes out
Adim
sight blade bisecting yellow forehead
Wind, blue metal streetlight,
Am
faint twilight shining on the corners of stones
Bb
Am
Verse 7
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F
G
Wave on wave of life
C
Like the great wide ocean's roll
F
G
Haunting hands of memory
C
Pluck silver strands of soul
F
G
The damage and the dying done
Gsus4
G
C
The clarity of light
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Gentle bows and glasses raised
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C
To the charity of night
Interlude 1
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Adim
Verse 8
Adim
Am
Slow revolution, 1985, crosswise in
a hammock in the hot volcanic hills
Bb
It's 3 A.M. the night after the
Am
Adim
air raid
From the ridge she watched
A37s, like ugly gulls
Am
Make a dozen swooping passes
over some luckless town
Maybe ten klicks beyond
Bb
the border
In the distance the Pacific
glimmered silver
Am
Verse 9
Adim
Now lascivious laughter floats on the darkness
Am
from the police post next door
Bb
Male voices, and a woman's
Am
Little clouds of desire painted around the edges
Adim
with rum
In the muddy street a pig suddenly
Interlude 2
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Bb
Am
Verse 10
F
G
of life
C
Like the great wide ocean's roll
F
G
Haunting hands of memory
C
Pluck silver strands of soul
F
G
The damage and the dying done
F
G
Gentle bows and glasses raised
C
To the charity of night
Interlude 3
C
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G
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Adim
Verse 11
Adim
Pacific glimmers silver
Bb
Am
Moon full over shadow mansion
West coast,
There is incense and the heat-driven
scent scent of flowers
Am
Verse 12
Adim
Tongue slides over soft skin
Am
Love pounds in veins brains
buzzing balls of lust
Bb
Fingers twine in wet hair
Limbs twist and roll
Am
Verse 13
Adim
On the dresser wax drips in slow
Am
motion down the long side of
A black candle
Bb
Ecstatic halo of flame and
Verse 14
F
G
of life
C
Like the great wide ocean's roll
F
G
Haunting hands of memory
C
Pluck silver strands of soul
F
G
The damage and the dying done
F
G
Gentle bows and glasses raised
C
To the charity of night
Outro 1
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