The Plague Chords by Scott Walker

[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
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I spent many a night laying on my back [G] waiting for the dawn to pierce the crack [F] in the ceiling
and fall from [Bm] the sky. _
And I envied the boy who grabbed the toy [G] and ran away and found the joy [F] while I stood in
the [Dm] shadows wondering [Bm] why. _
_ [C#m] Lying towards me wrapped in laughter, [A] a woman's face, the terrible face [G] of the morning after
kisses and [C#m] goodbyes.
I can never seem to catch my [F#m] footsteps, half-desires they fly away [G] and every day I'm left to find [Bm] the place. _
_ _ Come on hit me _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [A] now, friend. _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ How can I live an hour like this [G] when anguish strikes me like a fist, [F] my nakedness exposed
and I [Bm] can't stand.
Still I try to remember lips on lips [G] and hips on the hips and ice and fire [F] and gloom and glow.
[Dm] When did they leave the [Bm] man _ _ [C#m] in the river of the night I see?
[A] All that shimmers down to me [G] but like a falling star burns itself [C#m] out _ like a dead leaf scrapes
the gravel [F#m] ground.
[A] Voice [B] cries out the [F#m] gravel sound [G] but no one's there to hear me but the [Bm] flame. _ _ _ _ _
Call on me, _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[A] I've got the flame.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
Can't [C#] you hear me?
I've [G] got the flame.
[Bm] _ _
_ Straining hard to see, [G] running after me, [A] I keep pounding, pounding on the [Bm] door. _ _
_ But it's [G] all so vague when you meet the plague [F] and I keep coming, I keep coming [Bm] back for more. _
_ La la la la la [G] la la la la la [A] la la la [G] la la _ _ _ _ la la la la _ _ _ la la la la la la la la la la
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