Chords for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (BoxedSet 2001)

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I began [G] to warm and [Em] chill, two [Bm] objects at their [Em] fields, _ ragged [Bm] cup and a twisted [Em] mop,
_ face of Jesus [Bm] in my soup, [Em] _
_ no [Bm] sinister dinner [Em] deals, _ meal [B] trolleys, wicked _ [Em]
wills, a hooked
[B] bone rising from my [Em] food, all [Bm] things good or [Em] ungood, and the mercy seat is awaiting,
[E] and I think my head is [F#] a burning, in a way [E] I'm yelling, to [D] be done with all this weighing
[Dm] up of truth, an eye for an eye and a tooth [F] for a tooth, and anyway they [C] have no proof,
_ and I'm not afraid [Em] to die.
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_ _ [Bm] Interpret Simon Keller [Em]
with a [Bm] blackened tooth, a [Em] scarlet forth, the walls [Bm] are bad, black,
but I'm [Em]
kind, they are [Bm] the sick breath that [Em]
bind, they are the sick breath that bind,
they [Bm] are the sick breath that [Em]
bind, they [Bm] are the sick breath _ [Em]
gathering at _ [Bm] mine.
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_ Well I hear [E] stories from the chamber, how Christ was born into a manger, _ like some wretched
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stranger died upon the cross, and might [Dm] I say it seems so fitting, in [F] his way was a
_ carpenter [C] by trade, or at least that's what [Em] I'm told, _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [G] _
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_ my killer had a ten-hoon evil across
his [Bm] brother's fist, [G] _ _
[Em] _ that [G] filthy five did nothing [Em] to challenge or [Bm] resist, _ [Em] _
_ in heaven [E] his throne
is made of gold, and the Ark of his testament is stone, the throne from which I'm [D] told,
all history does unfold, down here [Dm] it's a vein of wood and wire, _ my [F] blood is on fire,
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and God is an _ evermore [Em] awake, _ into the verse you see that [E]
carp, by his shape, by his wire,
_ like a fopper, [G] tries to enter [D] the bright eye, so [Dm] I go shoving out, _ _ just to [F] hide in death a while,
_ [C] _ in any way I [Em] never, _ I [Bm] killed in this [E] old evil, with a winning hand that's good,
_ since I lost, red shirt gold, and all that red bow, but, and the mercy seated the waiter, _ _ _ _ _
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[Dm] _ and I think my head is [F] spoken, _ in a way I'm [C] _ _
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_ _ _ [D] to be done with all these alums I [Dm] just _ _ _ _
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