When a Man Cries chords by The Divine Comedy
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Verse 1
(A minor) When a child (D minor) cries (A minor) the
(F major) tears (D minor) rise (A minor) quickly
Spill (F major) hot and prickly down (D minor) (F major) the
reddened (A minor) cheeks (E major)
Just to (A minor) leave (F major) as quickly as they (G major) came
And (E minor) peace re (G major) turns (F major) again
(A minor) When
Verse 2
a child cries you know about it
They scream (F major) and shout until the
hurt is (Esus4) gone (E major) (Esus4) (E major)
Like a (A minor) shower of (F major) rain that for a mo (G major) ment
(E major) Hides away the (A minor) sun
But when (A major) a
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Verse 3
(D minor) man cries it's
choked and throttled
It's all (B flat major) been bottled up for far
(Asus4) to long (A major)
And when (D minor) at last the pressure (B flat major)
cooker blows (C major)
It's (A minor) hard to stem the (B flat major) flow (C major)
Verse 4
When a (D minor) man cries his (F major) body shakes
And his (Bdim) eyeballs ache
And his mind (B flat major) vibrates
But (D minor) he doesn't make a sound (G sharpdim)
Don't (G minor) wanna wake the (C major) house now
(F major)
Verse 5
Well the reasons (B flat major) are vague
and hard to put (F major) in words
Just a (A minor) dull ab (B flat major) stract ache,
don't (G minor) wanna worry (C major) her
She would (G sharp major) only ask what's wrong (C sharp major)
(G sharp major) and I'd try to say
Then she'd (C minor) take all my pain (C sharp major)
and explain (E flat major) it (F minor) away
But (E major) who can explain why a man (A minor) cries
Interlude 1
(A minor) (Adim) (F major) (A minor) (Asus4) (B minor)
(E major) (A minor) (F major) (G major) (E minor) (F major) (D minor) (F major) (A minor) (F major) (D minor) (Bdim) (E major)
When a (A minor) man
Verse 6
cries he cries (C major) (G major) alone
(C major) An (A minor) d for (D major) just a moment
(A minor) he's (F major) back at home
Cradled (A minor) in his mother's (Adim) arms (E flatdim)
(D minor) Free from (F major) guilt and safe (G major) (E major) from (A minor) harm
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