Chords for Leonard Cohen - Democracy

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It's coming through a hole in the air _ From those nads [G#] in [C#] Tiananmen Square _
[F#] It's coming from the feel [B] that this ain't [F#] exactly real
[C#] Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there _
[F] From the war against disorder, from the sirens [A#m] night and day
[F] From the fires of the homeless, [A#m] from the ashes of the gay
[G#] Democracy is coming [F#] _ to the U [C#].S.A.
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It's coming [F#] through a [C#] crack in the wall _ On a visionary [G#] flood [C#] of alcohol _
[F#] From the staggering count [B] of the sermon on the mound
[C#] Don't pretend to understand it all _
[F] It's coming from the [A#m] silence on the dock of the bay
[F] From the brave with all the battered [A#m] heart of a Chevrolet
[G#] Democracy is coming [F#] _ to the U [C#].S.A.
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It's coming [F#] from the sorrow [C#] in the street The holy [G#] places where the [C#] racers meet
From [F#] the homicidal bitch that [B] goes down in [F#] every kitchen
To [C#] determine who will serve and who will eat _
[F] From the wells of disappointment where the women [A#m] kneel to pray
[F] For the griefs of God in the desert [A#m] here and the desert far away
[G#] Democracy is coming _ [F#] to the U [C#].S.A.
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[G#] Sail on, _ [F#] sail on, [C#] oh my dear ship of stake
To [G#] the shores of need, [F#] past the reefs of greed, through [C#] the swaths of hate _ _ _
[D#m] Sail on, _ [G#] sail on, [F#] sail on, [C#] sail on _
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_ _ _ It's come to America first, _ _ the cradle of the best and the worst
_ [F#] It's here they got the range and [B] the machinery for [F#] change
[C#] And it's here they got the spiritual thirst
_ [F] It's here the family is broken [A#m] and it's here the lonely say
That [F] the heart has got to open in [A#m] a fundamental way
_ [G#] Democracy is coming [F#] to the U [C#].S.A. _ _
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_ _ _ It's coming from the women and the men
_ Oh baby, [G#] we'll be making love [C#] again
We'll [F#] be going down so [B] deep the ripples [F#] gonna weep
[C#] And the mountains gonna shout Amen
_ _ [F] It's coming like the tidal [A#m] flood beneath the lunar sway
[F] Imperial, mysterious, and [A#m] amorous ray
_ [G#] Democracy is coming _
[F#] to the U [C#].S.A. _ _
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_ _ _ [G#] Sail on, _ [F#] sail on, _ [C#] oh my dear ship of stake
To [G#] the shores of need, [F#] past the reefs of greed, through [C#] the swaths of hate
_ [D#m] Sail on, _ [G#] sail on, _ [F#] sail on, _
[C#] sail on _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm sentimental [F#] if you know what [C#] I mean
I love the country but [G#] I can't stand [C#] the scene
And [F#] I'm neither left or right, I'm [B] just staying home [F#] tonight
Getting [C#] lost in [F#] that hopeless little [C#] scream
But [F] I'm stubborn as those garbage [A#m] bags of time cannot decay
[F] I'm junk but I'm still holding up [A#m] this little wild bouquet _
[G#] Democracy is coming _ [F#] to the U [C#].S.A.
_ _ _ [F#m] To the U [C#].S.A. _ _ _ _ _ _
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