Current-93 - Immortal Bird Chords

Cm

Cm
What drives us on?
      Ab
What drives us on?
 
  Cm                 Fm
I left something of myself in you
Gm                   Ab
Fourscore, twenty, thirty
Cm                Fm
In your body and in your flesh
Gm                Ab
In your vault of skin
        Cm
I was nothing for you
         Fm         Gm
But the shadow of another love
          Ab
That one day for you
       Cm
Would shift the skies
     Fm
To pastures blue
               Gm          Ab
Streaked with passing and loss
Cm              Fm
Tortoise green in my eyes
         Gm
From the moss of my past
Ab
You arise
     Cm            Fm
And lightly then I saw you smile
      Gm               Ab
With ivory throat and ivory eyes
    Cm                Fm
At night I catch you before I sleep
    Gm          Ab
And if I died before I wake
   Cm                 Fm
I prayed that you my heart might keep
   Gm                Ab
I cannot hold your tunneled eyes
Cm             Fm
Near my heart any longer
Gm                Ab
All this love is nothing truly:
Cm 
Mist of moons' breath
Fm
Grit of evening
     Gm                 Ab
The grass was green (I now recall)
Cm             Fm
Before my own particular fall
   Gm
I saw we were both really
Ab
Masks on nothing
      Cm                      Fm
(The moonlight sweeping over northern beaches)
         Gm
All the trees stand stripped
       Ab
Just silhouettes of memories
    Cm                       Fm
At night I have started to dream of you:
      Gm
Your eyes are wide
          Ab              Cm
And shot through with sea blue

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