Chords for Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Oh My Lord

I thought I'd take a walk today
It's a mistake I sometimes [Em] make
The kids lay asleep in [D] bed
My wife lay wide [Em] awake
_ Kissed her softly on the brow
[D] I tried not to make a sound
But with stony eyes she looked at [D] me
And gently squeezed my [Em] hand
Call it a premonition
[D] _
Call it a crazy [Em] vision
Call it intuition
[D] _
Something learned from mother
[Em] _ When she looked up at [D] me
I could clearly see
[Em] The sword of a damocles
Hanging directly [Em] above her
_ _ _ [D] Oh Lord, oh [Em] my Lord
_ [D] Oh Lord, _ [G] _ how I _ offended Thee
[C] Wrap your tender _
[Cm] arms around me
_ [G] Oh Lord, _ [D] oh _ _ my _ _ Lord
They _ _ _ [Em] _ _
called at me through the [D] fence
They were not making any [Em] sense
They claimed I'd lost the [D] plot
Kept saying that I was not
The man I used to be
They held their babes [Em] aloft
To my shallows and the security
[D] And said that I'd grown soft
Call it intuition
[D]
Call it a creeping [Em] suspicion
But their words of a [D] derision
I meant they hardly knew [Em] me
For even I could see
The way they stared at me
The spear of a destiny
[D] _ A sticking right to [Em] me _
_ Oh Lord, oh [Em] my Lord
[D] Oh _ Lord, [G] _
how I _ offended _ [C] Thee
Wrap your tender _ [Cm] arms around me
[G]
Oh Lord, _ [D] oh my _
[Em] _ Lord
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_ _ [Em] _ Now I'm at the [D] hairdressers
People watch me as they move [Em] past
A guy wearing plastic [D] antlers
Presses his bum against the [Em] glass
Now I'm down on my hands and [D] knees
And it's so fucking hot
[Em] Someone cries, what are you looking [D] for?
I scream the flat butt but
[Em] I grab my telephone
[D]
I call my wife at [Em] home
She screams, leave us [D] alone
I say, hey it's all in [Em] me
The hairdressers, I'll wrap their scissors
[D]
He holds up the [Em] mirror
The crack and [D] shiver
I can't even believe what I [E] can see
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_ _ _ [B] _ Be mindful of the prayers [D] you send
Pray hard but to pray with [Em] care
For the tears you are crying [D] now
Are just your [Em] answered prayers
Letters of life we [E] scale merrily
[D] Move mysteriously around
[Em] So that when you think you're climbing [D] up there
In fact you're [E] climbing down
Into the hollows [D] of glimmer
Oh where will spark [Em] and ember
With telescopic [D] camera
They chose to turn [Em] us who we are
Oh I hate them [D] all
Oh I hate them [Em] all
Oh I hate them [D] all
For what they went [Em] and did
_ _ [D] Oh Lord
[Em] Oh my Lord
[D] Oh Lord
_ [G] Hand _ _ _ at thee
[C] Wrap your tender
_ [Cm]
Arms round me
[G] Oh Lord
[D] Oh Lord
Oh [Em] my Lord
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