VERSE 1
E                     C#m                              
It is so that my transgressions have born a withered fruit
A                        B
The sun has scorched the rising plants, alas they have no root
E                     C#m                              
The bleached bones of animals bound by leather strips
A                          B
Dance through the air with laughter as I wield this wicked whip

INTERLUDE 1
E  -  Bm  -  C#m  -  Bm
E  -  Bm  -  C#m  -  Bm

VERSE 2
As you did warn me carpenter, this world has weakened my heart
So easily I disparage, self-seeking the work of my art
And there you have come to me, at the moment I bathe in my sorrow
So in love with myself, sought after avoiding tomorrow

VERSE 3 
Where do you find the love to offer he who betrays you?
And offer to wash my feet as I offer to disobey you
Your beauty does bereave me, and how my words do fail
So faithfully and dutifully I award you with betrayal

INTERLUDE 2
E  -  B  -  C#m  -  B
E  -  B  -  C#m  -  B

E  -  C#m  -  A  -  C#m  -  B
E  -  C#m  -  A  -  B

VERSE 4
C#m                    A
The weak and the down trodden fall on broken legs
E                Abm
As I walk past a smile I cast, fervor in my stead
C#m               A
But my bones like plastic, do buckle backward now
E                      Abm
I lay in this field by Judas, anticipate the plow
 

VERSE 5
E                A
I can not be forgiven; my wages will be paid
C#m                        B
For those more lovely and admirable is least among the saved
E                      A
And where would I fit, Jesus? What place is left for me?
C#m                        B                                     E
The price of atonement is more than I've found to offer up as my plea

INTERLUDE 3
E  -  Ebm  -  C#m  -  B
E  -  Ebm  -  C#m  -  B


VERSE 6
E                       Abm             C#m                   Bm
Jesus my heart is all I have to give to you, so weak and so unworthy
                     E                Abm                    C#m
This simply will not do, no alabaster jar, no diamond in the rough
                       Bm                        E
For your body that was broken, how can this be enough?
                  Abm                      C#m
by me you were abandoned, by me you were betrayed
                   Bm                           E
Yet in your arms and in your heart forever I have stayed
                 Abm                                  C#m
Your glory illuminates my life, and no darkness will descend
                    Bm                               E
For you have lived forever, and your love will never end

OUTRO
E  -  Ebm  -  C#m  -  B  -  E