Chords for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - As I Sat Sadly By Her Side

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[Am] _ _ As I sat sadly by her [F] side, held the [E] window through [Dm] the [Am] glass, she stroked a kitten in
her laughing [F] way, watched the [E] world as [Dm] it fell [Am] past.
_ _ Softly she spoke these words to [F] me with brand new eyes, open wide, [Am] _ with pressed out faces
to the [F] glass, as I sat [G] sadly _ by [Am] her side.
_ _ _ She [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] said, father, mother, sister, brother, [F] _ uncle, aunt, and nephew, _ [Am] niece, soldier, sailor,
physician, _ [F] laborer, actor, scientist, mechanic, _ [Am] priest, earth and moon and sun and stars and
planets and comets with tails blazing, all [Am] are there [E] forever falling, [C] _ [F] falling [Em] lovely
_ [D] and [A] _ _ [Am] amazing. _ _ _ _
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[Am] _ As I sat sadly by her side, [F] _ the kitten [E] she did gently pass [Am] _ over to me and again we pressed
[F] on the different faces [Am] to the glass.
That may be very well, I said, [F] but what's the one
[B] falling in the [F] street? _
[Am] _ See him gesture to his neighbors [F] and see him trample [Am] beneath their feet. _
All outward motion connects to nothing [F] for each is concerned with their immediate need.
[Am] When does the man reaching up from the gutter [F] see the other one stumbling [G] on who _ _ [Am] cannot see? _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Am] _ _ Then she drew the curtains down and [F] said, oh, when will you ever _ [Am] learn that what happens there
beyond the glass [F] is simply none of your _ concern.
[Am] _ God has given you but one heart, you [F] are not a home
to the hearts of your brothers [Am] and God don't care for [E] your _ [Am] benevolence [F] anymore.
Then he cares for the [Am] lack of it [F] in others, not as he care for you to sit at [F] windows in judgment
of the world he created.
[Am] _ While sorrows pile up around you, [F] ugly, useless [G] and _ over [A] inflated.
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[Am] _ When she turned her head away, [F] great tales deepened from her [Am] eyes.
I could not wipe a smile from her face [F] as I [G] sat sadly by [Dm] her [Am] side. _ _ _ _
[F] As I [G] sat sadly by [A] her [Am] side. _ _ _ _
[F] As I [C] sat [G] sadly by her side.
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