Mah Sanctum chords by
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Key: G minor

Verse 1
Gm Gm 3
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Cm Cm 3
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My sanctum
Gm Gm 3
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My cave of vine and moss
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Is to my right about ten paces into the
thicket that surrounds me now
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So dense grows the swampland that sometimes
it would take me up to 30 minutes
Cm Cm 3
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To find the little hideaway
I had fashioned
Though I had been there hundred
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Gm Gm 3
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s and hundreds of times

Verse 2
Gm Gm 3
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I would look for the strips
of white sheet
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Ab Ab 4
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Bright like bush ghosts that hun
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g along the woven walls
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They would tell me where
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All about me were my treasures
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The stained bandages like flags
Boxes of nails and tacks
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A crate of electrical cord, my hammer
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Candles and plastic bags full of matches
and tapers from the church
My Bibles
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Twine Animal boxes and feathers
and bird skulls

Verse 3
Gm Gm 3
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Shells
and nests and some
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of my shoeboxes, about ten
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Pictures I had cut from magazines and
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Gm Gm 3
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threaded through the walls
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Gm Gm 3
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The tiny blue glass bottles of scented
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water
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And with these, I kept my life trophies My God

Verse 4
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tokens, the parts of her left be
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hind, the blood mementos
The whore's hair,
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her nightdress
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The portrait of Co  sey
that I had delivered
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From the hands of those who rose
up against her
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Cm Cm 3
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Sheared her , cast her out
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The kinder graph and the instructions
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she had written on the back of it in verse

Verse 5
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The painting of Beth,
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of her fastened to the walls and ceiling of the grotto
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Angled so that it hovered above me as I
lay in my shell
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On a carpet of pink silk and frill, yes
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And the ten pearl buttons leaving their evanescent
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impression down my back or belly
The stroke of hair,
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a ruby bead sailing down a yellow strand
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Cm Cm 3
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A trembling scarlet drop
the bittersweet sip
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Oh, the lifetimes lost in queer congress,
holed up in that dark retreat
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Holed up in that dark retreat
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Holed up in that dark retreat

Verse 6
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A felled tree trunk, carved down the middle by a
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cleaver of lightning
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During the rain days, I guess
Made a kind of a pallet where
I would lie stretched out
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Between the two halves that I had pad
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ded with cardboard and moss
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Encapsulated by two
walls of umbrage
That twisted about a few clapboards,
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I had nailed to the trunks as supports

Verse 7
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The vines intertwining overhead
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to form a low ceiling
I could sit up with a
full foot's grace
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Room enough for my angel,
too
Who would come in my later years
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Appear on the tree stump
at the foot of my cocoon
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Then come inside and lie with me
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Bb Bb 
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Sometimes I heard thousands of

Verse 8
Cm Cm 3
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voices,
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for God is many- tongued
Whispering things to me as I
lay there all alone
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Bb Bb 
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All my feelings of fear and of
anger and of despair
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That I ate daily like bread would
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leave me
And I would feel most powerful
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Most powerful
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They taught me He taught me how to deal

Verse 9

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with myself at

first

Then later he taught me

how to deal with the others

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TunerE A D G B E

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