Animal Static chords by
Nick Cave

N/A

Key: B minor

Verse 1
Bm Bm 2
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Windowless. Mah shack
is windowless.
A# A# 
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Bm Bm 2
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Once there was a window
– three, in fact –
A# A# 
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but ah sealed them up with planks.
Bm Bm 2
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Ah cemented the ledges in broken
A#aug A#aug 
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Bm Bm 2
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bottles, just in case  .
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Bm Bm 2
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With the trapdoor in the ceiling
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shut and the front door
Bm Bm 2
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closed and the padlocks,
bolts and chains checked,
ah could render the panting interior
D D 
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almost void of light,
C C 
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penetrated only by the steam
Bm Bm 2
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ing needles and fast fins,
the guillotines and steak knives of leaked
light – sun- silver lances,
like ah was the bikini- clad assistant
in some
G G 
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A# A# 
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magician's trick gone horribly wrong.
Bm Bm 2
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Yes! Sometimes ah would watch steely sunlight,
ragged,
serrated, saw me in half.
Ah spent an afternoon plugging the major leaks
with plaster but the
minor clefts, pocks and crannies,
G G 
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the sly seeps and trickles,
Bm Bm 2
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the countless chinks in mah castellated armour,
ah left unhindered.
Perforations. Air holes hammered in the lid of mah
coop. Of mah coffin.
If the beasts were up to it
D D 
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we would talk.
Bm Bm 2
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In this hushed, sepulchral stillness,
with the air putrid, septic,
heady and receptive,
a lot of thought waves got moved around.
Rat chat, crackling cat shriek, snake
hissance and lizard fizz,
G G 
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chipping rabbit blather,
Bm Bm 2
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G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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hare air, bug thrum –
A#aug A#aug 
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beast din, muzzled, telepathic.
Bm Bm 2
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A# A# 
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Bm Bm 2
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O but the drooling dog thoughts – dull,
belligerent, doped,
full of mean transmission – blood, meat,
G G 
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sex and so on.
Bm Bm 2
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G G 
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Lame, cock- eyed hill- bitches, agitated in
Bm Bm 2
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to a perpetual state of oestrus,
turning mean,
D D 
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nasty, as they frot and butt  and rut and
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G G 
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hump in the ordure and straw,
D D 
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G G 
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gnash and grabble in their squatting capsules
Bm Bm 2
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on the floor.
When their murgeoning got out of hand,
ah would give them a goofball.
G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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A calmative. OK – a comative.
One part water. One part White Jesus.
Half to one powdered sedative.
Never failed.
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Bm Bm 2
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A bowl or two of that – they lapped
it up – and they'd be goo- gooing
A# A# 
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like sucklings, all pooped out.
G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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All the mad air slaked.
The feral static,
G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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the hate waves abated.
G G 
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Ah would sit and nod and nanny these
Bm Bm 2
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lumpen fadges of incumbent dun g.
There were no in- between moods.
No slippers brought to the bedside.
No hobble around the block.
Either those brutes were
in a state of high coma
or they were coming at your face.
G G 
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But that's the way they had
to be.
Bm Bm 2
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That's the way ah wanted it.
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Bm Bm 2
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It's the way God had it organized.
G G 
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That pack of riggish bitches
Bm Bm 2
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and low bloods –
O they will get their chance
to make good.
Like me. They will have
G G 
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their moment of Glory too.
Bm Bm 2
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And very soon,
ah think, and very soon.
G G 
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Let the sleeping dogs lie. But don't
Bm Bm 2
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be  lieve a word they say.
Ah am the Truth. Ah am the Light.
Every dog has its day.
G G 
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Ah am having mine

Verse 2
Bm Bm 2
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now.
G G 
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Mah time is nigh.
Bm Bm 2
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G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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You're too late, Mister Hay- Rake,
Mister Spade.
Ah said, hey boss, take up that cross
and put on your walking shoes.
G G 
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Yes, you lose, Mister Noose.
Today belongs to me! Not thee!
Bm Bm 2
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Me! Me! This day is mine!
D D 
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Bm Bm 2
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Into the ranks of the elite ah climb,
saying,
Bm Bm 2
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'This is the last day! This is the last
day! The last day is mine!'
There are plenny others, brothers.
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G G 
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Take your pick. Take your hoe.
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Take your god damn gallow.
Leave this day alone. Sift
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through all your yesterdays.
Bm Bm 2
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Don't count on your tomorrows.
Bm Bm 2
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Ah can see them coming and it's
not a pretty sight.
The fear is here. The fright. Here is the night.

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsBm A# A#aug D C...

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