Chords for Austin City Limits Web Exclusive: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Higgs Boson Blues"

_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
Can't remember anything [G] at _ _ _ _ _ all.
_ [Bm] _ _ _
Except flea _ trees line the streets.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ Can't remember [D] anything at all.
_ _ _ _ I was driving my car [Bm] _ _ _ down to Geneva.
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ I was sitting in my basement patio. _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It was hot.
_ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ Up above, _ [A] _ girls [E] walked past. _
_ [Bm] Roses _ _ _ all in [B] blue.
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] Have _ _ _ you ever [D] heard about the [G] Higgs boson blues?
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ I'm going down to Geneva, baby.
[B] _ Going to teach it to you.
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ Who cares?
[G] _ _ _ _
Who _ cares?
[Bm] What the future _ _ brings. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ A _ black road long.
A drove and drove.
_ [Bm] I came upon a crossroad.
_ _ The night was hot and black.
_ _ [E] _ _ _
I see Robert Johnson _ with a ten dollar guitar.
He's got a dog [Bm] _ _
strapped to his back looking for a _ duke.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ And here comes [G] Lucifer with his cannon law.
_ [Bm] A hundred black babies running from his _ genocidal jaw.
_ _ [A] _ _
He's got the real [D] killer [G] crew. _ _
Robert Johnson and the devil [Bm] man.
_ [B] _
Don't know who's [Bm] going _ to rip our throat.
_ [E] _ _ _
_ Driving my car, flame trees on fire.
_ [Bm] _ _ _
_ Everybody's singing _ the Higgs boson _ _ blues.
[E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm _ tired.
And I'm looking [Bm] for a spot to drop.
_ _ All the clocks [B] have stopped in Memphis.
_ [Bm] _ [A] _ _
In the Lorraine [G] motel.
It's hot.
It's hot.
It's hot.
[Bm] _ That's why they call it _ _ the [B] hot spot.
Take [D] a room [A] with a view. _
_ I see a man [G] preaching in a language that's [Bm] completely _ _ new. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ Making the hot cuts in the front house _ bleed.
[Bm] While the cleaning ladies sob into their mops.
And the bell pops _ and a [E] pops.
_ A shot rings out.
_ It's a spiritual groove.
_ [Bm] _ Everybody's _ bleeding [B] _
[Bm] to the Higgs boson blues. _
_ [A] _ _ And if I die [G] tonight, bury me in [Bm] my favorite yellow patron leather _ _ _ shoes. _ _ _
[A] Or with a mummified cat [G] and a cone-like hat.
That [Bm] the _ [B] caliphate falls [Bm] from the Jews.
_ _ _ Can [E] _ _
_ you feel my heart beat? _ _
Can you feel [Bm] my heart beat?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
Hannah Montana _ _ does the African [B] _ _ _ [Bm] savannah. _
_ While the simulated rainy season [E] begins.
_ _ _ She curses the queue at the Zoo Blue. _
_ [Bm] _ _ Moves on to Amazonia.
_ And [B] cries [Bm] with the dolphins.
_ [A] _ _ _ I believe the [G] pigman, the pigman is the monkey.
The [Bm] monkey has a gift that he is sending back to you.
[A] _ _ _
_ Here comes the [G] fisherman _ with his small [D] pots and [Bm] pans. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ Save our [G] land, savages, from this Higgs [Bm] boson _ blues.
_ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
I'm driving my car, _ I'm driving my car down to [Bm] Geneva. _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ I'm driving [G] my car, man, down to Geneva.
[Bm] _ _
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_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ I let the damn day break. _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ Rainy days _ always [B] makes me [Bm] sad.
_ [A] _ _ Miley Cyrus floats _ [G] in a swimming pool [Gm] in Toluca Lake. _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ To the best girl I ever had. _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ Can you feel my heart [D] beat?
[G] _ _ Can you feel my heart [Bm] beat?
_ _ No, no, _ no. _ _ _ _ _
Can [A] _ _ _ you feel my heart [D] beat?
_ [G] _ _ Can you feel my heart [Bm] beat?
_ _ _ No, no. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ I'm [Bb] driving [G] my car.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [A] _ _
[D] _ _ I'm driving my car.
[G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] [Bm] I'm driving my car.
No, no, no.
_ _ _ No, no, no.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ I can't remember anything at [Bm] all. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
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