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Verse 1
(E minor) (A minor)
My sanctum
(E minor) My cave of vine and moss
Is to my right about (A minor) ten paces into the
thicket that surrounds me now
So dense grows (G major) the swampland that sometimes
it would take me up to 30 minutes
To find the little (A minor) hideaway
I had fashioned
Though I had been there hundred
(G major) s and hundred (E minor) s of times
Verse 2
I (E minor) would look for the strips
of white sheet
Bright like bush (A minor) ghosts that (F major) hun
g along the (A minor) woven walls
They would (E minor) tell me where
(G major) All about me were my treasures
(A minor) The stained bandages like flags
Boxes of nails and tacks
(E minor) A crate of electrical cord, my hammer
(A minor) Candles and plastic bags full of matches
and tapers from the church
My Bibles
Twine (E minor) Animal boxes and feathers
and bird skulls
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Verse 3
Shells (E minor)
and nests and some
of my shoeboxes, about (A minor) ten
Pictures I had cut from (G major) magazines and
(A minor) threaded through (E minor) the walls
The tiny (G major) blue glass bottles (E minor) of scented
water (A minor)
And with these, I kept my life trophies (E minor) My God
Verse 4
(G major)
tokens, the parts of her left be
(A minor) hind, the blood mementos
The whore's hair,
her night (E minor) dress
The portrait of (G major) Co sey
that I had delivered
From the (A minor) hands of those who rose
up against her
(E minor) Sheared (A minor) her , cast her out
(E minor) The kinder (G major) graph and the instructions
(A minor) she had written on the back of it in verse
Verse 5
The (A minor) painting of Beth,
of her fastened to the walls and (E minor) ceiling of the (G major) grotto
Angled so that it hovered (A minor) above me as I
lay in my shell
On a carpet of pink silk and frill, (E minor) yes
And the ten pearl buttons leav (G major) ing their evanescent
impression down (A minor) my back or belly
The stroke of hair,
a ruby bead (E minor) sailing down a yellow strand
(G major) A trembling (A minor) scarlet drop
the bittersweet sip
Oh, the lifetimes lost in (E minor) queer congress,
holed up in that dark retreat
Holed up in (A minor) that dark retreat
Holed up in that dark retreat (E minor)
Verse 6
A felled tree trunk, carved down the (F sharp major) middle by a
cleav (G major) er of lightning
(A minor) During the rain days, I guess
Made a kind of a pallet where
I would lie stretched out
Between the two (E minor) halves that I had pad
(G major) ded with cardboard and moss
Encapsulated by two (A minor)
walls of umbrage
That twisted about a few clapboards,
I had nailed to the trunks as sup (E minor) ports
Verse 7
The vines inter (G major) twining overhead
to form a low (A minor) ceiling
I could sit up with a
full foot's grace
Room enough for my (G major) angel,
too
Who would come in my later years
Appear on (A minor) the tree stump
at the foot of my cocoon
Then come inside and lie with me (E minor)
(A minor) Some (G major) times I heard thousands of
Verse 8
(A minor) voices,
for (G major) God is many- tongued
Whispering things to me as I
lay there all alone
(A minor) All my feelings of (G major) fear and of
anger and of despair
(F sharp major) That I ate daily like bread would
(G major) leave me
And I would feel most powerful
(G major) Most powerful
(A minor) They taught me He taught me how to deal
Verse 9
with myself at (E minor)
first
Then later he taught me
how to deal with the others
Mah Sanctum
Nick Cave
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