Artist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Song: Slowly Goes the Night
Album: Tender Prey
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"Darling, that morning you chose to go, I awoke in my boots and clothes. You had taken my
car, stole my cash even my five hundred dollar suit was slashed. And I just laid there
watching the sun fall down from the sky, not wanting to open the letter, but opening it
anyway, and seeing those two words. . ." 


Played over opening speakin part
Eb - Bb - Eb - Bb

                   Eb  
Lover, lover, goodbye
Bb                 Eb   Bb
So slowly goes the night
            Cm
I trace the print of your body with my hand
         F
Like the map of some forbidden land
  Cm
I trace the ghosts of your bones
                       Fm
With my trembling hand
Fm             Cm
Dark is my night
                 Fm     Cm
But darker is my day yeah
               Fm
I must've been blind
          Bb
Out of my mind
       Gm               Ab
Not to read the warning signs
Fm
How goes it?
Gm
It goes lonely
          D
Goes slowly 



So slowly goes the night
Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights
I watch the moon get flayed anew
Until the moom becomes the skinning tool
I send the skins of my sins out to cover and comfort you
I know of a Heaven
And honey I know of a Hell yeah
I hang my head
In my bed
And remember what you said
"One evening, I'm leaving"
And I laughed and checked her breathing
And said darling 

Go slowly through the knight
O baby, I feel the heal of time
I wake to find you sitting here
Cutting tangels out of your hair
Singing a song that's all wrong
Hey, but that's alright, I don't care
O darling forgive me
For all the misery yeah
I embrace an empty space
And your laughing song it fades
Where goes it?
It goes some place
Where it's lonely 

And black as the night
Come back, darling and put things right
I hang my head and cry cry cry
Darling, all night I try
To cease on a reason for this mad mad season
The nights, they are so long now
I can't remember it being light
Call it sleep, call it death, call it what you like
But only sleep, dear
Only sleep brings you back to life yeah
I hang my head
I toss and I sweat
I never never can forget
How goes it?
I'm going, but slowly slowly going
And we both know that it's gonna be alright 

But it ain't you who has to cry cry cry
Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights
Since you left my side side side

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transcribed by Benjamin Denes
ben_denes@hotmail.com