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Nick Cave : Abattoir Blues
2004

  1. Get Ready For Love
  2. Cannibal's Hymn
  3. Hiding All Away
  4. Messiah Ward
  5. There She Goes, My Beautiful World
  6. Nature Boy
  7. Abattoir Blues
  8. Let The Bells Ring
  9. Fable Of The Brown Ape

Get Ready For Love

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Gm
A
Get ready for love! Praise Him!
Gm
A
Get ready for love! Praise Him!
Gm
A
Get ready for love! Get ready!
Gm
Well, most of all nothing much ever really happens
A
And God rides high up in the ordinary sky
Gm
Until we find ourselves at our most distracted
A
And the miracle that was promised creeps quietly by
F
E
Calling every boy and girl
F
E
Calling all around the world
Eb
D
Calling every boy and girl
Eb
D
Calling all around the world Get ready for love! Get ready! Get ready for love! Praise Him! The mighty wave their hankies from their high-windowed palace Sending grief and joy down in supportable doses And we search high and low without mercy or malice While the gate to the Kingdom swings shut and closes Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world
Gm
Praise Him till you've forgotten what you're praising Him for Praise Him till you've forgotten what you're praising Him for
A
Then praise Him a little bit more Yeah, praise Him a little bit more
Gm
Praise Him till you've forgotten what you're praising Him for Praise Him till you've forgotten what you're praising Him for
A
Praise Him a little bit more
D
Yeah, praise Him a little bit more Get ready for love! Praise Him! Get ready for love! Get ready!
Gm
I searched the seven seas and I've looked under the carpet
A
And browsed through the brochures that govern the skies
Gm
Then I was just hanging around, doing nothing
A
And looked up to see his face burned in the retina of your eyes Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world Calling every boy and girl Calling all around the world Get ready for love! Praise Him! Get ready for love! Praise Him!
D

Cannibal's Hymn

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You have a heart and I have a key Lie back and let me unlock you Those heathens you hang with down by the sea All they want to do is defrock you
Am
I know a river, where we can dream
Em
It will swell up, burst its banks babe, and rock you
Bm
C
But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals
Bm
C
D
Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten
G
D
But I'm glad you've come around here with your animals
Em
C
And your heart that is bruised but unbeaten
F
D
Em
And beating like a drum
Em
I will sit like a bird on a fence Sing you songs with a happy ending Swoop down and tell you that it don't make much sense To attack the very thing you're defending
Am
Didn't I just buy that dress for you?
Em
That pink paper pinafore that you keep mending
Bm
C
Well, if you're gonna dine with the cannibals
Bm
C
D
Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten
G
D
But I'm glad you've come around here with your animals
Em
C
And your heart that is banging and beating
F
D
Em
And banging like a gong
Em
I can see that they've hurt you, dear Here is some moonlight to cloak us And I will never desert you here Unpetaled among the crocus
Am
Allow me, my love, to allay your fear
Em
As I swim in and out of focus
Bm
C
But if you're gonna dine with the cannibals
Bm
C
D
Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten
G
D
But I'm glad you've come around here with your animals
Em
C
And your heart that is bruised but bleating
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D
Em
And bleeding like a lamb
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D
Em
Banging like a gong
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D
Em
Beating like a drum
Em

Hiding All Away

You went looking for me dear Down by the sea You found some little silver fish But you didn't find me I was hiding, dear Hiding all way I was hiding, dear I was hiding all way You went to the museum You climbed a spiral stair You searched for me all among The knowledgeable air I was hidden, babe I was hiding all away I was hidden, dear I was hiding all away You entered the cathedral When you heard the solemn knell I was not sitting with the gargoyles I was not swinging from the bell I was hiding, dear I was hiding all away I was hiding, dear I was hiding all away You asked an electrician If he'd seen me around his place He touched you with his fingers Sent sparks zapping out your face I was hidden, dear I was hiding all away I was not there, dear I was hiding all away You went and asked your doctor To get some advice He shot you full of Pethadine And then he went and billed you twice But I was hiding, dear I was hiding all away But I was hiding, dear Hiding all away You approached a high court judge You thought he'd be on the level Well he wrapped a rag around your face And beat you with his gavel I was hiding, babe I was hiding all away I was keeping hidden, dear I was hiding all away You asked at the local constabulary They said, he's up to his same old tricks They leered at you with their baby blues And rubbed jelly on their sticks I had to get out of there, babe I was hiding all away You better get out of there, dear I was hiding all away You searched through all my poets From Sappho through to Auden I saw the book fall from your hands As you slowly died of boredom I had been there, dear But I was not there anymore I had been there, dear Now I'm hiding all way You walked into the hall of fame And approached my imitators Some were stuffing their faces with caviar Some were eating cold potatoes But I was hiding, dear I was hiding all away I was hiding, dear I was hiding all away Well, you asked a famous cook if he'd seen me He opened his oven wide Well, he basted you with butter, babe And he made you crawl inside But I was not in there, dear I was hiding all away I was not in there, dear I was hiding all away You asked the butcher Who lifted up his cleaver Stuck his fist up your dress Said, "He must've been mad to leave you" But I had to get away, dear I was hiding all away I had to get away, dear I was hidden all away Some of us we hide away Some of us we don't Some will live to love another day And some of us won't But we all know there is a law And that law, it is love And we all know there is a war coming Coming from above There is a war coming There is a war coming There is a war coming...

Messiah Ward

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Cm
Bb
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Cm
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Cm
I hope you're sitting comfortably I saved you the best seat in the house Right up in the front row The stars have been torn down The moon is locked away And the land is banked in frozen snow You are a force of nature, dear Your breath curls from your lips As the trees bend down their branches And touch you with their fingertips
Ab
Ab
G
They are bringing out the dead now
Cm
It's easy just to look away
Ab
Ab
G
They are bringing out the dead now
Cm
It's been a strange, strange day We could navigate out position by the stars But they've taken out the stars The stars have all gone I'm glad you've come along We could comprehend our condition by the moon But they've ordered the the moon not to shine Still, I'm glad you've come along I was worried out of my mind Cause, they keep bringing out the dead now It's easy just to look away They're bringing out the dead And it's been a long, strange day You can move up a little closer I will throw a blanket over We can weigh all the tears in one hand Against the laughter in the other We could be hanging around here for centuries Trying to make sense of this, my dear While the planets try to get organised Way above the stratosphere But they bringing out the dead, now It's easy if we just walk away Cause they keep bringing out the dead, now It's been a long, long day
Bb
Cm
Bb
Cm
Cm
x3
(Look Away) (Look Away)
Bb
Cm
Bb
Cm
Cm
...

There She Goes, My Beautiful World

Cm* x310xx
Cm*
F
Cm*
F
Cm*
The wintergreen, the juniper, the cornflower and the chicory
F
Cm*
F
Cm
All the words you said to me still vibrating in the air
F
Cm
F
Cm
The elm, the ash and the linden tree, the dark and deep enchanted sea
F
Cm
F
C
The trembling moon and the stars unfurled, there she goes, my beautiful world
C
G
There she goes, my beautiful world
Am
There she goes, my beautiful world
F
There she goes, my beautiful world
G
Cm
F
Cm
F
There she goes again
Cm*
F
Cm*
F
John Wilmot penned his poetry riddled with the pox
Cm*
F
Cm*
F
Nabokov wrote on index cards at a lectern, in his socks
Cm
F
Cm
F
St. John of the Cross did his best stuff imprisoned in a box
Cm
F
Cm
F
And Johnny Thunders was half alive when he wrote Chinese Rocks
Cm
F
Well, me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears
Cm
F
Me, I'm lying here, with nothing in my ears
Cm
F
Me, I'm lying here, for what seems years
Cm
F
I'm just lying on my bed with nothing in my head
Cm
F
Send that stuff on down to me
Cm
Send that stuff on down to me
F
Send that stuff on down to me
C
Send that stuff on down There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes again
Cm*
F
Cm*
F
Karl Marx squeezed his carbuncles while writing Das Kapital
Cm*
F
Cm
F
And Gauguin, he buggered off, man, and went all tropical
Cm
F
Cm
F
While Philip Larkin, he stuck it out in a library in Hull
Cm
F
Cm
F
And Dylan Thomas died drunk in St. Vincent's hospital
Cm
F
Cm
I will lie at your feet, I will kneel at your door
F
Cm
I will rock you to sleep, I will roll on the floor
F
Cm
And I'll ask for nothing, nothing in this life
F
Cm
I'll ask for nothing, give me everlasting life
Cm
F
I just want to move the world
Cm
I just want to move the world
F
I just want to move the world
C
I just want to move There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes again
Cm*
F
Cm*
F
So if you got a trumpet, get on your feet brother and blow it
Cm*
F
Cm*
F
If you've got a field that don't yield, well get up now and hoe it
Cm
F
Cm
F
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it
Cm
F
Cm
F
That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet
Cm
F
Cm
I will be your slave, I will peel you grapes
F
Cm
Up on your pedestal, with your ivory and apes
F
Cm
With your book of ideas, with your alchemy
F
Cm
Oh come on, Send that stuff on down to me
Cm
F
Send that stuff on down to me
Cm
Send that stuff on down to me
F
Send that stuff on down to me
Cm
Send that stuff on down to me
F
Send it all around the world
Cm
Send it all around the world
F
C
'Cause there she goes, my beautiful girl There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, there she goes
G
C
There she goes again There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world There she goes, my beautiful world
G
F
C
There she goes again

Nature Boy

Am
G
D
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Am
I was just a boy when I'd sit down
D
And watch the news on TV
Am
I saw some ordinary slaughter
D
I saw some routine atrocity
Am
My father said, "Don't look away
D
you've got to be strong, You've got to be bold now"
Am
He said that in the end it is beauty
D
that is going to save the world now
C
G
D
And she moves, among the sparrows And she floats upon the breeze And she moves among the flowers And she moves something deep inside of me I was walking around the flower show like a leper coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria I saw you standing there, green eyes, black hair up against the pink and purple wisteria You said "Hey nature boy, are you lookin' at me With some unrighteous intention?" My knees went weak, I couldn't speak, I was having thoughts That were not in my best interest to mention And she moves among the flowers And she floats upon the smoke And she moves among the shadows And she moves me with just one little look You took me back to your place and dressed me up in a deep sea diver's suit You played the patriot, you raised the flag and I stood at full salute Later on we smoked a pipe that struck me dumb and made it impossible to speak as you closed in, in slow motion quoting Sappho in the original greek And she moves, among the shadows And she floats upon the breeze And she moves, among the candles And we move through the days and through the years The years pass by, we walk by the sea half delirious You smiled at me and said "Babe, I think this thing is getting kind of serious" You pointed at something and said "Have you ever seen such a beautiful thing?" And it was then that I broke down it was then you lifted me up again And she moves, among the sparrows And she walks across the sea And she moves among the flowers And she moves something deep inside of me And she moves, among the sparrows And she floats upon the breeze And she moves among the flowers And she moves something deep right up close to me

Abattoir Blues

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G
The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my car
F
G
Drifting down into the abattoir
Am
Do you see what I see dear? The air grows heavy, I listen to your breath Entwined together in this culture of death Do you see what I see dear? Slide on over here let me give you a squeeze To avert this unholy evolutionary trajectory Can you hear what I hear babe?
F
Am
F
Does it make you feel afraid?
Dm
Everything's dissolving babe according to plan The sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the land I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed I woke up this morning with a Frappuccino in my hand |
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G
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x2
I kissed you once, I kissed you again My heart it tumbled like the stock exchange Do you feel what I feel dear? Mass extinction darling hypocrisy These things are not good for me Do you see what I see dear? The line the God throws down to you and me Makes a pleasing geometry Shall we leave this place now dear?
F
Am
F
Is there someway out of here?
Dm
I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work The need for validation babe gone completely berserk I wanted to be your Superman but I turned out such a jerk
Am
F
I got the abattoir blues
Am
F
I got the abattoir blues
Am
F
I got the abattoir blues
Am
G
Right down to my shoes
F
G
(Abattoir blues) (Abattoir blues) (Abattoir blues) (Abattoir blues)

Let The Bells Ring

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Dm
C'mon, kind Sir, let's walk outside
G
And breathe the autumn air
Dm
See the many that have lived and died
G
See the unending golden stair
Em
F
See all of us that have come behind
Em
F
Clutching at your hem
F
G
All the way from Arkansas
F
G
To your sweet and last amen
Dm
Well, let the bells ring
G
He is the real thing
Dm
Let the bells ring
G
He is the real, real thing |
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Take this deafening thunder down Take this bread and take this wine Your passing is not what we mourn But the world you left behind Well, do not breathe, nor make a sound And behold your mighty work That towers over the uncaring ground Of a lesser, darker world Oh, let the bells ring He is the real thing Let the bells ring He is the real, the real thing |
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There are those of us not fit to tie The laces of your shoes Must remain behind to testify Through an elementary blues So, let's walk outside, the hour is late Through your crumbs and scattered shells Where the awed and the mediocre wait Barely fit to ring the bells Well, let the bells ring He is the real thing Let the bells ring He is the real, real thing |
Dm
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Dm
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G
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Dm

Fable Of The Brown Ape

Farmer Emmerich went into his barn And found a cow suckling a serpent And a brown ape clanking a heavy chain Said Farmer Emmerich to the ape Never ask me to come into this barn again So Long Farewell So Long Farmer Emmerich caught the serpent And the brown ape in a cage And took them into his house He fed the snake a vat of milk And when the ape rattled its chain He tossed the ape a mouse So Long Goodbye Farewell The villagers found out that Farmer Emmerich Was nurturing a serpent And descended upon his farm All rabid in their blindness They dragged the snake outside Chopped it open with an axe And the ground soaked In the milk of human kindness So Long Farewell So Long But the brown ape escaped And was heard to roam the ranges Clanking its heavy chain Down in the valley it sang to its friend Whom he may never see again