Avalanche Chords by Leonard Cohen

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_ _ _ _ _ I stepped [Cm] into an [Db] _ avalanche, _ _
[Fm] it covered up my soul. _
_ _ _ When [C] I am not [Db] this hunchback that you see, _ [Fm] _ I [Eb] sleep beneath a golden [Fm] hill. _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ You who [Gm] wish to conquer pain, you [Fm] must learn, learn to [Db] serve me _ _ well. _ _
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_ _ _ You strike my side [Ab] by _ [Db] accident, _ [Fm] _ as you [Eb] go down for [Fm] your goal. _ _ _
_ The cripple here [G] that you [Ab] clothe [Db] and feed, _ [Fm] is neither [Eb] _
[Fm] starved nor cold.
_ _ [Ab] _ He does not ask [Gm] for your _ company, not at [Fm] the center, the center [F] of the _ _ world. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ When I am on [Db] a pedestal, _
[Fm] you did [Eb] not raise me [Fm] there.
_ _ _ Your laws do not [Db] compel me _ [Fm] _ to [Eb] kneel, protest, [Cm] and bear.
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[Ab] _ I myself [Gm] am the _ pedestal for this [Fm] ugly _ _ hump at [Db] which you stare. _ _ _ _ _
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_ You who wish to [Db] conquer pain, you must learn [Eb] what makes me [Fm] kind.
_ _ _ _ The crumbs of love that [Db] you offer me, _ [Cm] they're the crumbs I've left [Fm] behind. _
_ _ [Ab] _ Your pain is [Gm] no _ credential here, it's [Fm] just the shadow, shadow of [Db] my _ wound. _
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I have begun to [Db] _ long for you, [Fm] _ _ [Eb] I who have [Fm] no greed.
_ _ _ I have begun to [Db] ask for you, _
[Fm] _ I who have no need.
You [Ab] _ _ say you've gone _
[Gm] away from me, but [Fm] I can feel you when you [Db] _ breathe. _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ Do not dress in [Ab] those [Db] rags for me, [Fm] I [Eb] know you are not [Fm] poor.
_ _ _ _ Don't love me quite [Ab] so _ fiercely now, [Fm] when you know that you [Eb] are not [Fm] sure. _ _ _
[Ab] It is your [Gm] turn, beloved, _ it [Fm] is your _ flesh that [Db] I wear. _ _ _ _ _ _
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