Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Song: Gates To The Garden
Album: No More Shall We Part
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Am
Past the ivy-covered windows of The Angel
                           Dm      G
Down Athenaeum Lane to the cathedral
Am
Trough the churchyard I wandered
                            Dm     G
Sat for a spell there and I pondered
               F    G  
My back to the gates 
               F    G
My back to the gates 
               F   G        C
My back to the gates of the garden


Am
Fugitive fathers, sickly infants, decent mothers
                      Dm    G
Runaways and suicidal lovers
Am
Assorted boxes of ordinary bones
                                      Dm     G
Of aborted plans and sudden shattered hopes
           F   G
In unlucky rows
           F   G
In unhappy rows
           F    G                       C     F - G
In unlucky rows, up to the gates of the garden

          C              G
Won't you meet me at the gates
          C              G
Won't you meet me at the gates
          C              G
Won't you meet me at the gates
         C
To the garden

Beneath the creeping shadow of the tower
The bell from St.Edmunds informs me of the hour
I turn to find you waiting there for me
In sunlight and I see the way that you breathe
Alive and leaning on the gates of the garden
Alive and leaning on the gates of the garden
Alive and leaning on the gates of the garden

Leave these ancient places to the angels
Let the saints attend to their keeping of the cathedrals
And leave the dead beneath the ground so cold
For God is in this hand that I hold
As we open up the gates of the garden

Won't you meet me at the gates
Won't you meet me at the gates
Won't you meet me at the gates
To the garden

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tabbed by Benjamin D
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