MARK LANEGAN - OLD SWAN
album version - GARGOYLE
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[VERSE ONE]
G C
Clean new roads unfurled
G
Light of the world
C
Redeemed, your humble child
G
Don't leave me here let me come with you
C
And though my soul is not worth saving
G C
My mistress and my queen your spirit is larger than my sin
G
It does not lie, it does not lie
C
In this faith that we live and die, I give myself to you
[VERSE TWO]
G C
Sustained no need to explain
G
Fade into the sun the evening kisses your rays
C
Sweet mother queen of the world
G C
I'm free, free at last
[VERSE THREE]
G
Dear Mother, queen of the earth and air
C
Let cool water flow sweet mother, queen of the world
G
Let cool water flow to claim this land
C
North south east west, to the wind you dance
G
Sweet mother, I give myself to you
C G
And have no other have no other than you
[VERSE FOUR]
G C
Clean through the eternal
G
Through dead seasons, sail to the sun
C
My mother and my queen, honest and serene
G
Praise God, God in everything, God in everyone
C
Way up, way up high, way up high mama
G
All my darkness cleaned away sweet mother, sweet sweet mother
C
Sweet mother queen of the world
G
Take me in your arms let me live again
C G C G C G C G
Ohhhh clean
[OUTRO]
G C
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G C
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