*Use a capo @ second fret* B5 F#5 G5 They're taking pictures of the man from God D5 A5 I hope his cassock's clean B5 F#5 G5 The burden of being a holy fellow D5 A5 D5 Your halo better gleam , better gleam D5 A5 B5 What of all those wayward priests? D5 A5 The ones who like to drink D5 A5 B5 Do you suppose they'd swap their blood for wine D5 A5 D5 Like you swapped yours for ink, for ink B5 F#5 G5 You wrote me oh so many letters D5 A5 And all of them seemed true B5 F#5 G5 Promises look good on paper D5 A5 D5 Especially from you, from you D5 A5 B5 The weight of all those willing words D5 A5 I carried all alone D5 A5 B5 You wouldn't put your pen to bed D5 A5 D5 When we hadn't found our own, our own G5 E5 D5 A5 G5 E5 D5 A5 B5 F#5 G5 Your sentences rose high at night D5 A5 And circled round my head B5 F#5 G5 The circle's since been broken D5 A5 D5 Like the priest before me is breaking bread D5 A5 B5 I'm being asked to drink the blood of Christ D5 A5 And soon I'll eat his flesh D5 A5 B5 I'm alone again before the altar D5 A5 D5 Shedding all my old regrets B5 F#5 G5 The last of which I'll tell you now D5 A5 As it flies down the sink B5 F#5 G5 I never knew a part of you D5 A5 D5 You didn't set in ink, in ink D5 A5 B5 The letters that you left behind D5 A5 No longer shall I read D5 A5 B5 Your blood's between the pages D5 A5 D5 And I can't stand to see you bleed B5 F#5 G5 F#5 G5 A5 B5 F#5 G5 F#5 G5 A5 D5 D5 D5 G5 D5 A5 D5 D5 G5 D5 A5 D5 D5 D5 G5 D5 A5 D5 D5 G5 D5 A5 D5 B5 F#5 G5 And I'll soon forget what was never there D5 A5 Your words are ash and dust B5 F#5 G5 All that's left is the song I've sung D5 A5 D5 The breath I've taken and the one I must D5 A5 B5 If you're born with a love for the wrote and the writ D5 A5 People of letters your warning stands clear D5 A5 B5 Pay heed to your heart and not to your wit D5 A5 D5 Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear B5 F#5 G5 D5 A5 B5 F#5 G5 D5 A5 D5 D5 A5 B5 D5 A5 D5 A5 B5 D5 A5 D5
