Democracy chords by Leonard Cohen
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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It's coming through a hole in the air
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From those nights in Tiananmen Square
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It's coming from the feel
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That this ain't exactly real
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Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there
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From the war against disorder
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From the sirens night and day
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From the fires of the homeless
Esus4
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From the ashes of the gay
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Democracy is coming to the USA
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Interlude 1
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Fm
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Verse 2
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It's coming through a crack in the wall
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On a visionary flood of alcohol
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From the staggering account
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Of the Sermon on the Mount
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Which I don't pretend to
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understand at all
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It's coming from the silence
On the dock of the bay
From the brave, the bold, the battered
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Heart of Chevrolet
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Democracy is coming to the
Interlude 2
USA
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Fm
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Fm
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Verse 3
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It's coming from the sor
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row in the street
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The holy places where
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the races meet
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From the homicidal bitchin'
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That goes down in every
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kitchen
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To determine who will
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serve and who will eat
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From the wells of disappointment
Esus4
Where the women kneel to pray
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For the grace of God in the desert here
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And the desert far away
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Democracy is coming to the
Interlude 3
USA
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Fm
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Fm
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Verse 4
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Sail on, sail on
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O mighty ship of state
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To the shores of need
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Past the reefs of greed
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Through the squalls of hate
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Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on
Verse 5
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It's coming to America first
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The cradle of the best and of the worst
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It's here they got the range
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And the machinery for change
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And it's here they got
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C
the spiritual thirst
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It's here the family's broken
Esus4
And it's here the lonely say
Am
E
That the heart has got to open
Esus4
Am
In a fundament al way
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Democracy is coming to the USA
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Interlude 4
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Fm
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Verse 6
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It's coming from the wo
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men and the men
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Oh baby, we'll be mak
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ing love again
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We'll be go ing down so deep
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The river's going to weep
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And the mountain's going to shout,
"Amen"
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It's coming like the tidal flood
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Beneath the lunar sway
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Imperial, mysterious
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In amorous array
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F
Democracy is coming to the
Interlude 5
USA
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Fm
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Fm
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Verse 7
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Sail on, sail on
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O mighty ship of state
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To the shores of need
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Past the reefs of greed
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Dm
Through the squalls of hate
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F
C
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on
Verse 8
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I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I
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can't stand the scene
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And I'm neither left or right
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I'm just staying home tonight
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Getting lost in that hopeless
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little screen
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But I'm stubborn as
those garbage bags
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That time cannot decay
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I'm junk but I'm still holding up
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Am
this little wild bouquet
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Democracy is coming
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Fm
to the USA
Outro 1
To the USA
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Fm
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Democracy
Leonard Cohen
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