Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Song: Grief Came Riding
Album: No More Shall We Part (Lim. Ed.)
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Am
A grief came riding
G
On the wind
F             C
Up the sun on river Thames
F                                 Dm
I was sittin' on the bank with my mouth open
     F                G
When I felt it entering

Am                         G
I began thinkin' about our wedding day
F                  C
And how love was a vow
F                        Dm                       
I was thinkin' about the chamber door
F                 G
Only we can enter now

Am                         G
I began thinkin' about our ancient friends
F                   C
And of kissin’ them goodbye
F                            Dm  
And then the wind blew under Battersea bridge
F                        G
And a tear broke from my eye

Am                       G
I started thinkin' about London
F                     C 
And nothing good ever came from this town
F                            Dm  
and if the Thames weren’t so filthy
        F           Dm        G
I would jump in the river and drown

G             Dm
Don't be afraid
        C
Come on down
         Am
I'm just sittin' here
G        C
Thinking loud


Blowin' people far apart
Blowin' others so they collide
Blowin’ some poor bastard right out of the water
blowin’ another one over the side

Hear the ancient iron bridge
And listen to it groan
with the weight of a thousand people
Leavin' or returning home

To their failures
To their boredoms
To their husbands
And their wife’s
who are carving them up for dinner
before they even arrive

Don't be afraid
Come on down
I'm just sittin' here
And thinkin' of love

And look there just below the water
See the saviour of the human race
Where the fishes and the frogs
Has found his final resting place

Don't be afraid
Come on down
I'm just sittin' here
Thinkin' of love

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