Chords for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Singer

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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ I walk these narrow streets [C] where a million passing feet [G] of truck perform [C] me.
[G] _ With my guitar in my hand, suddenly I realize nobody knows me.
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Where [C] yesterday the multitude screamed and cried my name [Gm] out for a [G] song,
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today the streets are empty and the crowds [C] have [G] left.
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I'm cast in houses but there is no place that I belong.
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All I knew to give you was song after song after song.
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[C] All the truths I tried to tell you were as distant to you [G] as the moon.
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_ Born 200 years too late and too hot and too soon.
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[G] I'm a child of this age locked into the pages [Gm] of your [G] book.
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And when I am but dust and clay and other children stop to take a look,
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[C] will they marvel at the miracles I did perform and the heights I [G] did aspire?
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Will they tear out the pages of the book to light a fire?
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_ On my face there is no place where I belong.
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Did you forget this singer so soon?
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