Abattoir Blues Chords
by Nick Cave
Abattoir Blues by Nick Cave is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, G, Am and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
F G
The sun is high up in the sky and I’m in my car
F G
Drifting down into the abattoir
Am
Do you see what I see, dear?
F G
The air grows heavy. I listen to your breath
F G
Entwined together in this culture of death
Am
Do you see what I see, dear?
F G
Slide on over here, let me give you a squeeze
F G
To avert this unholy evolutionary trajectory
Am
Can you hear what I hear, babe?
F Am F
Does it make you feel afraid?
( Dm )
Everything’s dissolving, babe, according to plan
The sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the land
I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed
I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand
F G
I kissed you once. I kissed you again
F G
My heart it tumbled like the stock exchange
Am
Do you feel what I feel, dear?
F G
Mass extinction, darling, hypocrisy
F G
These things are not good for me
Am F
Do you see what I see, dear?
G
The line the God throws down to you and me
F G
Makes a pleasing geometry
Am F
Shall we leave this place now, dear?
Am F
Is there someway out of here?
( Dm )
I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work
The need for validation, babe, gone completely berserk
I wanted to be your Superman but I turned out such a jerk
Am F
I got the abattoir blues
Am F
I got the abattoir blues
Am F
I got the abattoir blues
F
Right down to my shoes
F G
abattoir blues...
F G
abattoir blues...