The jeweller chords by John Cale
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Intro 1
(Gsus4) (G major) (Gsus4) (G major) (Gsus4) (G major) (Gsus4)
(G major) Very slowly he sipped his
Verse 1
(Gsus4) tea,
not shifting his glance (G major) from the thick (C minor) double- spaced (G major) printing he read (C minor) with his jeweller's (G major) eye (Gsus4)
(G major) Engrossed (C minor) in his corner,
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Verse 2
he passed onto the other inhabitants
of the room a scrawled insularity of time and space
Verse 3
For both passed him by with the speed of light, not unlike the flow (C minor) of substance,
however varied, into that lysergic entity known as the black hole (Gsus4)
He was (G major) hardly ugly for his time, (Gsus4) and (C minor) conversation was (G major) certainly not
Verse 4
(Gsus4)
lost on him
Drastic measures were (G major) called for,
and as in antiquity the (C minor) lonely man was blessed with wisdom to the (G major) point of desperation (C minor)
Verse 5
But there in his corner, developing around him (G major) like a sun,
(C minor) was a climate of such rare beauty that sight and sound could no longer be considered sufficient food for the (G major) senses (C minor)
(G major) And he had begun to notice, as his hearing
Verse 6
failed, that mind and matter were in no way connected to one other,
as if in fact the one could not propose (C minor) and prove its erotic existence in terms of the oth (G major) er
Verse 7
"What does this word mean?" he enquired of the solemn waiter hopefully (G major)
"Nothing for dessert sir," came the reply, "perhaps a cocktail, demitasse or a (C minor) herbal essence,
(G major) (Gsus4) it helps the breath (C minor) ing you know some (G major) times." "The bill, if you don't mind," (C minor) quickly he shot back
Verse 8
(C minor) And as the patter of the feet faded in the room, for he barely heard them now, his eye slowly began to close, and by the time he emerged on the sunny street he was forced to rely entirely on the other eye for help,
but happily it continued its many functions, blinking gently for lubrication, and registering images
Interlude 1
It was rush hour, in Hawaii only 10 am
(C minor)
Verse 9
(C minor) So, turning into his street,
he stopped at the drug store and bought an eye patch that soon covered the reluctant eye
Verse 10
Climbing (C minor) the stairs he pondered what to do next, he would call a doctor and have tests made,
eat nourishing food and if necessary consent to surgery, the last (G major) re sort of the (C minor) gambling man
Verse 11
And at 1 am he awoke from a dream (C minor) and after fumbling his way in the obolescent light of his room
he peered into the rusty veins of his mirror and lifted away the patch
What he saw astonished him. Where once was tremulous tissue and membrane was now a follicle and perfectly formed vagina with vulva,
overgrown and mysterious, unrevealing and still to the untrained eye
Verse 12
But in the deep dark recesses of that sticky occlusion lay the unclosing watchful (C minor) eye of disgust in its closing moments,
Outro 1
lunging forward and hungry for the cold light of days
(C minor)
The jeweller
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