The Last Of Eternity by Cathal Coughlan

From Cathal Coughlan’s 2002 The Sky’s Awful Blue album. Written by Cathal Coughlan. No capo.

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VERSE 1

[Bbaug] And the [Abm] valleys will boil
[Bbaug] Smog-blur [Abm] brown is the sea
[Bbaug] Bitter [Abm] odours arise
In a [Bbaug] cheap wooden [Ebm] kitchen

VERSE 2

[Bbaug] And the [Abm] bed’s in the yard
[Bbaug] And the [Abm] stove’s there as well
[Bbaug] Price-tags [Abm] wave in the breeze
As he tells her, ‘just [Ebm] listen [Bbaug] [Ebm]

[Bb/C] Didn’t you yearn for the permanent sunshine
[Bb/C] Beautiful neighbours, high [Gmaj7] wages and cheap wine?
[Bb/C] Pharmacy open 24 hours
[Bb/C] Credit? of course, ma’am
[Ebmaj7] Sweet in the sunshine, sour in the shade
No [Ebmaj7] human shell that can’t be bettered with a surgeon’s [A6] blade

CHORUS 1

[A6]

[G] Numb with full elas [A6] tici [G] ty
It’s the [A6] Last of E [G] terni [F#7] ty

VERSE 3

[Bbaug] So she [Bmaj7] straightens and smiles
[Bbaug] ‘I must [Abm] go sell the car
[Bbaug] “If it [Bmaj7] rains…?” he begins
[Bbaug] She says “It [Ebm] doesn’t”

VERSE 4

[Bbaug] Now he [Bmaj7] sits in the fog
[Bbaug] On the [Bmaj7] steps of that home
[Bbaug] Shards of [Abm] glass in his knuckles
[Bbaug] So far, no [Ebm] further

[Bbaug] [Ebm]

The [Bb/C] guidebooks would term him ‘ideally-placed’ here
For [Bb/C] nightclubs, museums, col [Gmaj7] loquial Shakespeare
There’s an [Bb/C] old Spanish graveyard, ten major pawnshops
Beaches and yacht clubs
And [Ebmaj7] firing-ranges, protected by law
Where you can [Ebmaj7] scale the barrier and sportsmen help you end it [A6] all

CHORUS 2

[A6]

[G] Range war in ex [A6] tremi [G] ty
It’s the [A6] last of e [G] terni [F#7] ty

CHORUS 3

[A6]

[G] Hope gets buried by the [A6] certain [G] ties
Here at the [A6] last of e [G] ternity
The [A6] last of e [G] ternity

FADE

[A6] [G] (x3)