Crystal Wrists — Peter Murphy
Chords and lyrics for Crystal Wrists by Peter Murphy (key of G).
Verse 1
(From the 1989 Album DEEP)
Intro
[D]
Verse 1
[D]I can't see the light, I'm thrown in disgust
[D]They speak of feats he housed forever
A howling [G]wind[D] changed my course
It blew [G]me out[D] of bounds so sore
Pre-Chorus
[C] All the walls
[D] All the walls that bound me
[C] Descending bleak and put upon
Chorus
[D] I chew my [Bm]cheeks, to wake up [A]numb
A vase grows [G]bigger to my eyes
[D]These eyes that [Bm]snigger and [A]despise
A wall grows [G]taller up to [D]doom[D][A]
Verse 2
[D] Shoes in my room [G]thrown in disgust
[D]At how I fall[G] to my worst
[D] Of course you say [C]you don't understand
Your [D]words, your fiction, [C]your crooked hands
Chorus
[D] But clearly [Bm]now, I tell you, [A]man
That all I [G]say is all I [D]can
For I am [Bm]nothing but my [A]sin
Until I [G]learn to cast them [A][D]in[D][A]
Verse 3
[D] While young girls fangs and crystal [G]wrists
[D]Wait patiently for me to [G]twist
[D]I look away to distant rains
To [C]waterfalls and honey days
[D]And boys in black and blue rinse eyes
[C]Gaze whistly at my slender thighs
Chorus
[D]I twist a shade [Bm]to my right
And [A]spit at [G]Beelzebub on sight
[D]And go on loving [Bm]all I see
For [A]here I live on [G]patiently
[D] Clearly [Bm]now, I tell you, [A]man
That all I [G]say is all I [D]can
For I am [Bm]nothing but my [A]sin
Until I [G]learn to caste them [D]in
I twist a shade [Bm]to my right
And [A]spit at [G]Beelzebub on sight
[D]And go on loving [Bm]all I see
For [A]here I live on [G][D]patiently
Clearly [Bm]now, I tell you, [A]man
That all I [G]say is all I [D]can
For I am [Bm]nothing but my [A]sin
Until I [G]learn
[D]Learn, [Bm]learn, [A]learn[G]
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