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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