Chords with lyrics
[Intro]
Bb/A
AbAb 
G minorGm
I believe that you heard your master sing
AbAb G minorGm
when I was sick in bed.
AbAb G minorGm
I suppose that he told you everything
AbAb G minorGm
that I keep locked away in my head.
AbAb 
C minorCm
Your master took you travelling,
Eb MajorEb 
FF
well at least that's what you said.
Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb Bb/A
And now do you come back to bring
Eb MajorEb 
D MajorD
your prisoner wine and bread?
AbAb G minorGm
You met him at some temple, where
AbAb G minorGm
they take your clothes at the door.
AbAb G minorGm
He was just a numberless man in a chair
AbAb G minorGm
who'd just come back from the war.
AbAb C minorCm
And you wrap up his tired face in your hair
Eb MajorEb FF
and he hands you the apple core.
Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb Bb/A
Then he touches your lips now so suddenly bare
Eb MajorEb D MajorD
of all the kisses we put on some time before.
AbAb G minorGm
And he gave you a German shepherd to walk
AbAb G minorGm
with a collar of leather and nails,
AbAb G minorGm
and he never once made you explain or talk
AbAb G minorGm
About all of the little details,
AbAb C minorCm
such as who had a word and who had a rock,
Eb MajorEb FF
and who had you through the mails.
Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb Bb/A
Now your love is a secret all over the block,
Eb MajorEb D MajorD
and it never stops not even when your master fails.
AbAb G minorGm
And he took you up in his aeroplane,
AbAb G minorGm
which he flew without any hands,
AbAb G minorGm
and you cruised Above the ribbons of rain
AbAb G minorGm
that drove the crowd from the stands.
AbAb C minorCm
Then he killed the lights in a lonely lane
E MajorE FF
and, an ape with angel glands,
Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb Bb/A
erased the final wisps of pain
Eb MajorEb D MajorD
with the music of rubber bands.
AbAb G minorGm
And now I hear your master sing,
AbAb G minorGm
you kneel for him to come.
AbAb G minorGm
His body is a golden string
AbAb G minorGm
that your body is hanging from.
AbAb C minorCm
His body is a golden string,
Eb MajorEb FF
my body has grown numb.
Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb Bb/A
Oh now you hear your master sing,
Eb MajorEb D MajorD
your shirt is all undone.
AbAb G minorGm
And will you kneel beside this bed
AbAb G minorGm
that we polished so long ago,
AbAb G minorGm
before your master chose instead
AbAb G minorGm
to make my bed of snow?
AbAb C minorCm
Your eyes are wild and your knuckles are red
Eb MajorEb FF
and you're speaking far too low.
Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb Bb/A
No I can't make out what your master said
Eb MajorEb D MajorD
before he made you go.
AbAb G minorGm
Then I think you're playing far too rough
AbAb G minorGm
for a lady who's been to the moon
AbAb G minorGm
I've lain by this window long enough
AbAb G minorGm
to get used to an empty room.
AbAb C minorCm
And your love is some dust in an old man's cough
Eb MajorEb FF
who is tapping his foot to a tune,
Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb Bb/A
and your thighs are a ruin, you want too much,
Eb MajorEb D MajorD
let's say you came back some time too soon.
AbAb G minorGm
I loved your master perfectly
AbAb G minorGm
I taught him all that he knew.
AbAb G minorGm
He was starving in some deep mystery
AbAb G minorGm
like a man who is sure what is true.
AbAb C minorCm
And I sent you to him with my guarantee
Eb MajorEb FF
I could teach him something new,
Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb Bb/A
and I taught him how you would long for me
Eb MajorEb D MajorD
no matter what he said no matter what you'd do.
(Same as 1st verse)
AbAb G minorGm
I believe that you heard your master sing
AbAb G minorGm
when I was sick in bed.
AbAb G minorGm
I suppose that he told you everything
AbAb G minorGm
that I keep locked away in my head.
AbAb C minorCm
Your master took you travelling,
Eb MajorEb FF
well at least that's what you said.
Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb Bb/A
And now do you come back to bring
Eb MajorEb D MajorD
your prisoner wine and bread?
Other versions of Master Song
Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Master song (Ver. 2) by Leonard Cohen
