Niemandswasser chords by Current-93

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Cm
I have to say
Bb         Cm
I have to see
The twilight moonlit
               Bb
The houses on hills
                   F
All appear so blind
       G  Cm
At night

The webs that bind them
Bb      Cm
To the skies

Are golden, sparkling
                  Bb
With blood and dust

The angelic motes
                F
On beams of blood
           G     Abmaj
Dance at night
                    Bb       Cm
The trees turn under the rain
                           Bb   F  G
Pan lies dead from rut to rot
  Cm                   Bb Cm
I saw the lighthouses all fall
                       Bb
Small angels hold parasols

And point to other skies
      F              G
The clacking on the fence
             Abmaj7
Is long and loud

The noise of the fingers
Bb         Cm
Crack in my head

Behind my eyes
              Bb
Between the bloodwalls
                              F
That line the streets and the skulls
    G     Abmaj7
Forever

The bonewhite temple
        Bb     Cm
Letters piling up
                                  Bb
Unanswered stars yawning together
                               F
You may have this gift from me
             G              Abmaj7
And I will send you nothing

From what I see
      Bb      Cm
(And I see all)

The green is going
                  Bb
Black peter arises
                                F
With his sack chock full of tricks
               G          Abmaj7
(And none of them eternal)

Black peter arises
          Bb         Cm
With his bag of blood
                        Bb
(And none of this runs eternal)

Black peter arises
         F
And he smiles
        G           Abmaj7
White teeth cap over the blackened stumps

Bb       Cm
All the kings of all particular times

      Bb
Have passed away

And lie in gutters
F         G    Abmaj7
Pretty as pink
                        Bb  Cm
I thought that I had seen

Some bright new dawn
              Bb
The children all laid down and smiled
     F               G                Abmaj7
The fires no longer smold and dullied

I watched the trash
       Bb          Cm
That covered this world

Swimming in farces
                  Bb
In mud and in blood
                          F    G    Abmaj7
Without a care in the world
                           Bb        Cm
The corpses are piled up almost to heaven

Chuckling or smiling
                   Bb
And rubbing their hands
                        F      G   Abmaj7
Without a care in the world
                    Bb            Cm
And so we all lie dozing under the sun
                                  Bb
Images of banality flick past our eyes
                     F
As we bask in this paradise
                G   Abmaj7
Littered around us
                    Bb       Cm
Books of religion covering my feet
                               Bb   F   G  Cm
And I haven't the time for a word
                           Bb         Cm
But still I see cottages covered in honeysuckle
                                             Bb
The dovecots so full of the Birds in their thousands
                                           F
The cats lap at cream in their pussyland dream
           G                    Abmaj7
And they haven't a care in the world

And then it shines
   Bb      Cm
We're all dust
                                       Bb
I drop the compasss and point out the pole

And then it shines
           F    G     Cm
We're all dust
                   Bb        Cm
So wait for me at niemandswasser
                         Bb
As I watch the flowers bloom
                                   F
And trail the horseflies as they scream
        G                Abmaj7
The songs we'll never know:

It shines
       Bb      Cm
That we're all dust

It shines
                Bb      F    G
That we're all dust
           Abmaj7   Bb Cm  Bb  F  G  Cm  Bb Cm  Bb  F G Cm  Bb Cm Bb
We're all dust