Zen chords by
John Cale
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Key: A minor
Intro 1
Bm
Bm

Verse 1
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It's midnight
And our silver tongued obsessions come at
Us out of the dark
Scrambling to be recog
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D

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Bm

nised before
Tearing themselves apart
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A

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Bm

It's zen and the art of Bollywood
Heroes turning on a spit
The lovers unable to resolve
A pre-historic bitch
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C

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Bm

bitch
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A

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Bm

We don't know the half of it
Clever is as clever does
His drawn lights sparkling
On a merry-go-round
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D

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Bm

Hypnotising Hypnotising
Hypnotising everyone on it
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A

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Bm

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In zen and the art of forgery
We're losing control of
light
DeLorean, Picasso
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D

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A

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Bm

Mondriaan and El Greco some one's
Gonna pay the price
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D

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C
C

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F#m
F#m

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C
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If I didn't
know you better than that
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D
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I'd never let you
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A

outta my sight
Verse 2
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Where is the art of sorcery
We wanna be fooled again
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Staggered by deception charmed
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Into submission helpless
as a deck of cards
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It's now the art of reality
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Calling a spade a spade
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facing the obvious
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A monkey and his grinder
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But on a different plain
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I see you clearly
Verse 3
from day to day
As clearly as I see tonite
Keep talking said the slow-eyed
Mandarin
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Mandarin
"I've got nothing to say"
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Meet me on the staircase on
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your way down
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We'll see if there's been a mistake
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In zen and the art of algebra
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There is no value for time
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Whatever thrives inside the dark
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Decays on the outside
Outro 1
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