The Angel Of 8Th Ave

[Intro]
G#m B     E
G#m B     E
G#m B     E
G#m B     E
 
 
[Verse 1]
B
So we got straight to the heart
                                     E
And I was a coward and worse to my shame
 
I fell hard upon the weightless weeks
                   B
But wasted every day
 
‘Til you emerged in the park
                                    E
Like some patron of Washington Square
 
For the first time in a long time
                            B
Inside everything stood clear
 
So went out to find me a job
                                             E
But I didn't think I would hold this one down
 
It gives the same old sinking feeling
                             B
Of fucking hammers in my bowels
 
But you are good to me still
                                      E
And when my old man was near to the end
 
You loved his broken body
 
In thе same way that I did
 
 
[Chorus]
G#m B            E
I wanna lay me down
                        G#m
And be lovеr of the year
B                    E
In this strange new town
                      G#m B
This strange hemisphere
 
 
[Verse 2]
 B
God, it was state of the art
                                    E
You called each of my sorrows by name
 
And a tide of tender mercies
                           B
Shook my body from the grave
 
And in the festival years
                      E
Of our makeshift parade
 
In perpetual fall
                     B
And immeasurable rain
 
I wanna see this one out
                                    E
And I wanna join the impossible swing
 
And fall hard beside you
                                    B
Screaming at the bowels of everything
 
And in the Islington morn
                      E
You're the angel of 8th
 
And what's more, the goddamn greatest thing
 
That Laney ever made
 
 
[Chorus]
G#m B            E
I wanna lay me down
                       G#m
And be lover of the year
B                          E
And in this strange new town
                      G#m
This strange hemisphere
B                 E
You persuade me now
                           G#m
To look closer in the mirror
B                     E
And I wanna lay me down
                                      G#m
For years and years and years and years
 
 
[Instrumental]
B  E  B E  B E  B
 
[Outro]
B
Ah, there's heaven in you now
 
Ah, there's heaven in you now
 E
Ah, there's heaven in you now
 
Ah, there's heaven in you now
 B
There is heaven in you now
 
Ah, there's heaven in you now
 E
Ah, there's heaven in you now
 
Ah, there's heaven in you now
 B
There is heaven in you now
 
Ah, there's heaven in you now
 E
Ah, there's heaven in you now
 
Ah, there's heaven in you now
 B
Ah, there's heaven in you now
 
There is heaven in you now
 
Now, now