Tom: C
Brompton Oratory
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by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
(The Boatman's Call album)
C Am
Up those stone steps I climb
Dm G
Hail this joyful day's return
C Am
Into it's great shadowed vault I go
G# Gm F
Hail the Pentecostal morn
C Am
The reading is from Luke 24
Dm G
Where Christ returns to his loved ones
C Am
I look at the stone apostles
G# Gm F
Think that it's alright for some
C Am
And I wish that I was made of stone
Dm G
So that I would not have to see
C Am
A beauty impossible to define
G# Gm F
A beauty impossible to believe
C Am
A beauty impossible to endure
Dm G
The blood imparted in little sips
C Am
The smell of you still on my hands
G# Gm F
As I bring the cup up to my lips
C Am
No God up in the sky
Dm G C
And no devil beneath the seaaaaa
Am
Could do the job that you did, baby
G# Gm F
Of bringing me to my knees
C Am
Outside I sit on the stone steps
Dm G
With nothing much to do
C Am
Forlorn and exhausted, baby
G# Gm F G C
By the absence of you
