Avalanche chords by Nick Cave

Tuning: Standard

   Dm   Bb1   C    F   Bb2    Am
e|-------|---1---|-------|-------|-------|-------|
b|---6---|---3---|---5---|-------|-------|-------|
g|---7---|---3---|---5---|---2---|---7---|---6---|
D|---7---|-------|---5---|---3---|---8---|---7---|
A|---5---|---1---|---3---|---3---|---8---|---7---|
E|-------|-------|-------|---1---|---6---|---5---|


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=        Intro        =
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Dm 2x

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=        Verse I       =
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Dm          Bb1
  I stepped into an avalanche
Dm      C   Dm
  It covered up my soul
Dm          Bb1
  When I am not this hunchback that you see
Dm       C      Dm
  I sleep beneath the golden hill


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=       Refrain        =
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F           Am
    You who wish to conquer pain
    Dm            Bb2
You must learn, learn to serve me well

Am 2x


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=       Verse II       =
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Dm         Bb1
  You strike my side by accident
Dm      C      Dm
  As you go down for your goal
Dm             Bb1
  The cripple here that you clothe and feed
  Dm    C    Dm
  Is neither starved nor cold

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=       Refrain        =
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F           Am
   He does not ask for your company
       Dm            Bb2
  Not at the centre, the centre of the world

Am 2x

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=       Verse III       =
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Dm        Bb1
  And I am on a pedestal
Dm       C    Dm
  You did not raise me there
Dm          Bb1
  Your laws do not compel me now
Dm     C       Dm
  To kneel grotesque and bare

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=       Refrain        =
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F      Am
   I myself am the pedestal
      Dm          Bb2
  For this ugly hump at which you stare

Am 2x

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=       Verse IV       =
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Dm         Bb1
  You who wish to conquer pain
Dm      C       Dm
  You must learn what makes me kind
Dm              Bb1
  The crumbs of love that you offer me
       Dm      C   Dm
 They’re the crumbs I’ve left behind

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=       Refrain        =
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F        Am
   Your pain is no credential here
        Dm        Bb2
 It’s just the shadow, shadow of my wound

Am 2x

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=       Verse V        =
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Dm         Bb1
  I have begun to long for you
Dm    C   Dm
  I who have no greed
Dm        Bb1
  I have begun to ask for you
Dm    C    Dm
  I who have no need

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=       Refrain        =
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F            Am
   You say you’ve gone away from me
      Dm           Bb2
 But I can feel you, feel you when you breathe

Am 2x

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=       Verse VI       =
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Dm           Bb1
  Do not dress in those rags for me
Dm      C   Dm
  I know you are not poor
Dm             Bb1
  And don’t love me quite so fiercely now
      Dm       C Dm
  When you know that you are not sure

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=       Refrain        =
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F          Am
  It is your turn, my beloved one
    Dm        Bb2
  It is your flesh that I wear

Am 2x

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=        Outro        =
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