Take Me To Church - Hozier

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[Verse 1]
            
My lover's got

     
 humour
              
She's the gigg

            
le at a funera

  
l
              
Knows everybod

            
y's disapprova

  
l
              
I should've wo

              
rshipped her s

    
ooner
              
If the Heavens

            
 ever did spea


k
              
She is the las

            
t true mouth p

 
iece
              
Every Sunday's

            
 getting more 

    
bleak
              
A fresh poison

      
 each week
              
'We were born 

             
sick, you hear

              
d them say it

              
My church offe

            
rs no absolute


s
              
She tells me '

              
worship in the

     
 bedroom'
              
The only heave

            
n I'll be sent

  
 to
              
Is when I'm al

        
one with you
              
I was born sic

 
k, but I love 

it

Command me to be well
            
Aaaaaaaaa    a

            
aaaaaaaamen. A

          
aaaaaaamen. Am

      
en

*The G F# & F are power chords moving downwards*

[Chorus]
              
Take me to chu


rch
              
I'll worship l

              
ike a dog at t

              
he shrine of y

     
our lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins so you

              
 can sharpen y

      
our knife
              
Offer me that 

   
deathless deat

h
            
Good God, let 

              
me give you my

       
 life
              
Take me to chu


rch
              
I'll worship l

              
ike a dog at t

              
he shrine of y

     
our lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins so you

              
 can sharpen y

      
our knife
              
Offer me that 

   
deathless deat

h
            
Good God, let 

              
me give you my

        
 life

[Verse 2]
            
If I'm a pagan

         
 of the good t

imes
            
My lover's the

    
 sunlight
             
To keep the Go

       
ddess on my si

de
            
She demands a 

   
sacrifice

To drain the w

hole sea

Get something 

shiny

            
Something meat

            
y for the main

          
 course
              
That's a fine 

            
looking high h

       
orse
              
What you got i

              
n the stable?
              
We've a lot of

           
 starving fait

hful

That looks tas

ty

That looks ple

nty

This is hungry work



[Chorus]
              
Take me to chu


rch
              
I'll worship l

              
ike a dog at t

              
he shrine of y

     
our lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins so you

              
 can sharpen y

      
our knife
              
Offer me that 

   
deathless deat

h
            
Good God, let 

              
me give you my

      
 life
              
Take me to chu


rch
              
I'll worship l

              
ike a dog at t

              
he shrine of y

     
our lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins so you

              
 can sharpen y

      
our knife
              
Offer me that 

   
deathless deat

h
            
Good God, let 

              
me give you my

       
 life

[Bridge]
            
No masters or 

              
kings when the

             
 ritual begins
             
There is no sw

             
eeter innocenc

            
e than our gen

      
tle sin
             
In the madness

             
 and soil of t

            
hat sad earthl

   
y scene
             
Only then I am

 
 human
            
Only then I am

          
 clean
         
Oh, A- men. A-

           
 men. A- men

[Chorus]
              
Take me to chu


rch
              
I'll worship l

              
ike a dog at t

              
he shrine of y

     
our lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins so you

              
 can sharpen y

      
our knife
              
Offer me that 

   
deathless deat

h
            
Good God, let 

              
me give you my

          
 life
             
Take me to chu


rch
              
I'll worship l

              
ike a dog at t

              
he shrine of y

     
our lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins so you

              
 can sharpen y

      
our knife
              
Offer me that 

   
deathless deat

h
            
Good God, let 

              
me give you my

        
 life