Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Brompton Oratory (Guitar)

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   Up those stone steps I climb

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   Hail this joyful day's return

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   Into it's great shadowed vault I go

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   Hail the Pentecostal morn

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   The reading is from Luke 24

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   Where Christ returns to his loved ones

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   I look at the stone apostles

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   Think that it's alright for some

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   And I wish that I was made of stone

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   So that I would not have to see

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   A beauty impossible to define

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   A beauty impossible to believe

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   A beauty impossible to endure

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   The blood imparted in little sips

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   The smell of you still on my hands

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   As I bring the cup up to my lips

C           Am
   No God up in the sky

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   And no devil beneath the seaaaaa

                        Am
   Could do the job that you did, baby

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   Of bringing me to my knees

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   Outside I sit on the stone steps

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   With nothing much to do

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   Forlorn and exhausted, baby

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   By the absence of you