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The Wrote And The Writ by Johnny Flynn - Guitar Chords
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Version 2
Notes:
with the D sometimes the last note is left out and then hammered on + off a bit.
D5 xx0235
[Verse 1]
Bm F# G
They're taking pictures of the man from God
D A
I hope his cassock's clean
Bm F# G
The burden of being a holy fellow
D A D
Your halo better gleam, better gleam
D5 A Bm
What of all those wayward priests?
D A
The ones who like to drink
D5 A Bm
Do you suppose they'd swap their blood for wine
D A D
Like you swapped yours for ink, for ink
[Verse 2]
Bm F# G
You wrote me oh so many letters
D A
And all of them seemed true
Bm F# G
Promises look good on paper
D A D
Especially from you, from you
D5 A Bm
The weight of all those willing words
D A
I carried all alone
D5 A Bm
You wouldn't put your pen to bed
D A D
When we hadn't found our own, our own
[Verse 3]
Bm F# G
Your sentences rose high at night
D A
And circled round my head
Bm F# G
The circle's since been broken
D A D
Like the priest before me is breaking bread
D5 A Bm
I'm being asked to drink the blood of Christ
D A
And soon I'll eat his flesh
D5 A Bm
I'm alone again before the altar
D A D
Shedding all my old regrets
[Verse 4]
Bm F# G
The last of which I'll tell you now
D A
As it flies down the sink
Bm F# G
I never knew a part of you
D A D
You didn't set in ink, in ink
D5 A Bm
The letters that you left behind
D A
No longer shall I read
D5 A Bm
Your blood's between the pages
D A D
And I can't stand to see you bleed
[Verse 5]
Bm F# G
And I'll soon forget what was never there
D A
Your words are ash and dust
Bm F# G
All that's left is the song I've sung
D A D
The breath I've taken and the one I must
D5 A Bm
If you're born with a love for the wrote and the writ
D A
People of letters your warning stands clear
D5 A Bm
Pay heed to your heart and not to your wit
D A D
Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear
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