Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Song: Babe You Turn Me On
Album: Lyre Of Orpheus
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G
Stay by me, stay by me
Em               D
You are the one, my only true love

G
The butcher bird makes it's noise
And asks you to agree
Em
With it's brutal nesting habits
D
And it's pointless savagery
G
Now, the nightingale sings to you
And raises up the ante
Em
I put one hand on your round ripe heart
D
And the other down your panties

G
Everything is falling, dear
Everything is wrong
Em
It's just history repeating itself
                      G
And babe, you turn me on

Like a light bulb
Like a song

You race naked through the wilderness
You torment the birds and the bees
You leapt into the abyss, but find
It only goes up to your knees
I move stealthily from tree to tree
I shadow you for hours
I make like I'm a little deer
Grazing on the flowers

Everything is collapsing, dear
All moral sense has gone
It's just history repeating itself
And babe, you turn me on

Like an idea
Like an Atom bomb

We stand awed inside a clearing
We do not make a sound
The crimson snow falls all about
Carpeting the ground

Everything is falling, dear
All rhyme and reason gone
It's just history repeating itself
And, babe, you turn me on

Like an idea
Like an Atom bomb

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transcribed by Carlos Mal Pacheco