The Wrote And The Writ Chords

Capo: 4th fret (E)

[Verse 1]
 
   Am                  E               F
They're taking pictures of the man from God
  C                        G
I hope his cassock's clean
   Am                    E      F
The burden of being a holy fellow
  C             G                   C
Your halo better gleam, better gleam
 
 C         G             Am
What of all those wayward priests?
 C           G
The ones who like to drink
 C                     G                Am
Do you suppose they'd swap their blood for wine
 C                       G          C
Like you swapped yours for ink, for ink
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
    Am             E   F
You wrote me oh so many letters
    C                  G
And all of them seemed true
Am            E      F
Promises look good on paper
  C             G         C
Especially from you, from you
 
    C                   G       Am
The weight of all those willing words
  C           G
I carried all alone
    C                 G      Am
You wouldn't put your pen to bed
        C                G        C
When we hadn't found our own, our own
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
     Am             E      F
Your sentences rose high at night
    C                G
And circled round my head
    Am                  E F
The circle's since been broken
         C                   G        C
Like the priest before me is breaking bread
 
          C                  G        Am
I'm being asked to drink the blood of Christ
    C                 G
And soon I'll eat his flesh
    C           G          Am
I'm alone again before the altar
 C              G       C
Shedding all my old regrets
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
    Am                 E       F
The last of which I'll tell you now
   C                 G
As it flies down the sink
  Am           E      F
I never knew a part of you
    C             G       C
You didn't set in ink, in ink
 
    C                G      Am
The letters that you left behind
   C              G
No longer shall I read
     C                   G Am
Your blood's between the pages
    C                G       C
And I can't stand to see you bleed
 
 
[Verse 5]
 
         Am                   E    F
And I'll soon forget what was never there
     C                 G
Your words are ash and dust
Am                     E        F
All that's left is the song I've sung
    C                         G     C
The breath I've taken and the one I must
 
          C                        G             Am
If you're born with a love for the wrote and the writ
          C            G
People of letters your warning stands clear
    C                      G           Am
Pay heed to your heart and not to your wit
      C                        G           C
Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear