Verse 1EmAmEm
My lover's got humour
AmG
She's the giggle at a funeral
AmEm
Knows everybody's disapproval
AmEm
I should've worshipped her sooner
AmEm
If the Heavens ever did speak
AmG
She is the last true mouthpiece
AmEm
Every Sunday's getting more bleak
AmDA fresh poison each week
C/G
'We were born sick,' you heard them say it
EmAmEm
My church offers no absolutes
AmG
She tells me 'worship in the bedroom'
AmEm
The only heaven I'll be sent to
AmD
Is when I'm alone with you
C/G
I was born sick, but I love it
C/G
Command me to be well
Verse 1GCGCGCmG
Aaaaaaaaaaamen. Amen. Amen
ChorusGF#F#FEm
Take me to church, I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
BG
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Am
Offer me that deathless death
EmAGGF#
Good God, let me give you my life Chorus(2x)
Verse 2EmAmEm
If I'm a pagan of the good times
AmG
My lover's the sunlight
AmEm
To keep the Goddess on my side
AmD
She demands a sacrifice
C/G
To drain the whole sea
Em
Get something shiny
AmEm
Something meaty for the main course
AmG
That's a fine looking high horse
AmEm
What you got in the stable?
AmD
We've a lot of starving faithful
C/G
That looks tasty
C/G
That looks plenty
GF#
This is hungry work
ChorusF#FEm
Take me to church, I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
BG
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Am
Offer me that deathless death
EmAGGF#
Good God, let me give you my life Chorus(2x)
BridgeCGBEm
No masters or kings when the ritual begins
CGBEm
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
CGBEm
In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
CGBEm
Only then I am human, only then I am clean.
Pre-ChorusGCGCGCmG
Aaaaaaaaaaamen. Amen. Amen
ChorusGF#F#FEm
Take me to church, I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
BG
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Am
Offer me that deathless death
EmAGGF#
Good God, let me give you my life
GF#F#FEm
Take me to church, I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
BG
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Am
Offer me that deathless death
EmAGGF#
Good God, let me give you my life
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