Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Song: Cassiel's Song
Album: 'Do You Love Me' b-side
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                        Ab
We've come to bring you home
Bb          Eb
Haven't we, Cassiel?

Eb                                   Ab
To cast aside your loss and all your sadness
    Bb                                      Eb
And shuffle off that mortal coil and mortal madness
    Ab                                      Eb
For we're here to pick you up and bring you home
Bb              Eb
Aren't we, Cassiel?

Ab                             Eb
It's a place where you did not belong
Ab                                    Eb
Were time itself was mad and far too strong
      Bb
Where life leapt up laughing and hit you head on
                                   Eb
and hurt you, didn't it hurt you, Cassiel?

Eb
While time outran you and trouble flew toward you,
Eb                    Ab
and you were there to greet it,
Bb                   Eb
weren't you, foolish Cassiel?

Bb
But here we are, we've come to call you home
Bb
and here you'll stay never more to stray
Bb
Where you can kick off your boots of clay
Ab         Bb
can't you, Cassiel?

Eb
For death and you did recklessly collide
                    Ab
and time ran out of you
and you ran out of time,
Bb               Eb
didn't you, Cassiel?

Eb
and all the clocks, in all the world                                 
may this once just skip a beat in memory of you
                      Ab                     Eb
then again those damn clocks, they probably won't
Bb              Eb
will they, Cassiel?

Eb						    Ab
One moment you are there and then strangely you are gone,
Bb							Ab
but on behalf of all of us here we are glad to have you home
Bb               Eb
Aren't we, dear Cassiel?



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transcribed by Benjamin Denes
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