Chords for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat

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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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began to warm and chill _ _ to objects and their feels.
A ragged cup and a twisted mop, the face of Jesus in my soap.
All those sinister dinner deals, _ meal trolleys, wicked wheels.
A hook bone arising from my food, all things good or ungood.
[E] _ And the mercy seat is waiting, and I think my head is burning.
And the way I'm yearning to be [D] done with all this waiting of [Dm] the truth.
An eye for an eye and a tooth [F] for a tooth, and in a way I told [C] the truth.
And I'm not afraid [Em] _
_ to [Bm] die.
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_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [E] _
You [Bm] talk with Simon _ Kello, [E] a blackhead to be scolded for.
The walls are bad like butter kind, the other sick breath in my hand.
The other sick breath in my hand.
The other sick breath _ _ _ _ _ _ can't really _ _ mind.
_ _ [Em] _ _ Well I hear [E] stories from the chamber how Christ was born into a manger.
_ Like some ragged [D] stranger tied upon the cross.
But I'll say [Dm] it seems so fitting in [F] his way he was a carpenter [C] by trade.
Or at least that's what [Bm] I'm _ told. _ _
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_ _ My killing _ eternity but it crosses brothers' fists. _ _
Well that guilty mind did nothing to challenge or resist.
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In heaven as strong as a made in a goat, and the ark of his testament is stout.
Shall bow and tell the [D] world history does not hold.
Down here in some made of [Dm] a wooden wire, and [F] my brother's on fire. _
[C] And God is never far [G] away.
Into the [E] first you see the cloud, and it's straight by and it's wide.
Like a hapless trice [D] to enter the bride.
[D] So I go [Dm] struggling and alive, just [F] to hide in death a while.
_ [C] And anyway I live [E] a lie.
I kill and I'm just called [Bm] evil.
With a weighted band that's gutted.
Since I lost my first cycle.
Calling out and I've ran from blood.
[E] And the mercy she is awaiting.
Now I think my head is burning.
In a way I'm yearning to [D] be done with all this waiting.
I'm [Dm] a fool.
I'm a liar.
I'm a [F] fool.
And anyway I live [C] a lie. _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ The mercy she is awaiting. _
Now I think my head is smoking.
In a way I'm yearning [D] to be done with all this waiting.
_ _ _ [Dm] I'm a fool.
_ And anyway I live a [C] lie.
And I'm not afraid.
[G] _ _ [E] The mercy she is awaiting.
_ Now I think my head is boiling.
In a way I'm spoiled.
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My only love's a dead body.
[Dm] A life for a life.
A [F] truth for a truth.
And we may have no [C] proof.
But I'm afraid that's all [E] I have.
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