Key: E minor
Intro 1
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Bbm
Db
Db
Gb
Gb
Ebm
F
Gb
Verse 1
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When all the worst we fear
Db
lets fall its weight
When the gyre widens on
Gb
and when the wave breaks
Ebm
When St. Peter loses cool and bars the gates
F
Gb
When Atlas acts the maggot,
Bbm
makes his arms shake
When the birds are heard again
Db
in their singing
Gb
Once atrocity is hoarse from voicin' shame
And when the earth is trembling
Ebm
on some new beginnin'
Ab
With the same sweet shock
Gb
of when Adam first came
Chorus 1
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Be, be, be, be, be
Db
Be as you've always been
Gb
Be, be, be, be, be
Ebm
Be as you've always been
Bridge 1
(Lover, be good to me)
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Be as you've always been
Db
Be like a love that discovered the sin
Gb
Ebm
That freed the first man and will do so again
Bbm
And lover be good to me
(Lover be good to me)
Be that hopeful feeling
when Eden was lost
Db
That's been deaf to our laughter
since the master was crossed
Gb
Ebm
Which side of the wall really suffers that cost?
Bbm
Oh, lover be good to me
Interlude 1
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Bbm
Db
Db
Verse 2
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When the man who gives the order
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Is born next time 'round on the boat sent back
Gb
When the bodies starvin' at the border
Ebm
F
Are on TV givin' people the sack
Gb
Bbm
Oh, when the sea rises to meet us
Db
Oh, when there's nothin' left
for you and I to do
Gb
Oh, when there's nobody upstairs
to receive us
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When I have no kind words left,
Ab
love, for you
Gb
Chorus 2
Bbm
Be, be, be, be, be
Db
Be as you've always been
Gb
Be, be, be, be, be
Ebm
Be as you've always been
Bridge 2
(Lover, be good to me)
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Be love in its disrepute
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Scorches a hillside and salts every root
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And watches the slowing
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and starving of troops
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And lover, be good to me
(Lover, be good to me)
Be there and you stare as you stand
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Or be like the rose that you hold in your hand
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That will grow bold in a barren
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and desolate land
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And lover be good to me
Outro 1
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Love, won't you be?
Love, won't you be?
Db
Be as you always been?
Gb
Love, won't you be?
Ebm
Love, won't you be?
Bbm
Be as you always been?
Love, won't you be?
Love, won't you be?
Db
Be as you always been?
Gb
Love, won't you be?
Ebm
Love, won't you be?
Bbm
Be as you always been?
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