Hozier - Take Me To Church


Verse 1
            
 My lover's go

          
t humor, she's

              
 the giggle at

     
 a funeral
              
Knows everybod

            
y's disapprova

            
l, I should've

              
 worshipped he

     
r sooner
              
If the Heavens

            
 ever did spea

            
k, she’s the l

            
ast true mouth

     
piece
              
Every Sunday's

            
 getting more 

            
bleak, a fresh

            
 poison each w

   
eek
              
We were born s

             
ick, you heard

       
 them say it
            
 My church off

            
ers no absolut

            
es, she tells 

              
me 'worship in

           
 the bedroom'
              
The only heave

            
n I'll be sent

            
 to is when I'

            
m alone with y

  
ou
              
I was born sic

 
k, but I love 

it. Command me

 to be well

            
A-A-A-A-A-  Am

     
en Amen Amen


Chorus
      N.C.*
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         Take 

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me to church I

              
'll worship li

              
ke a dog at th

              
e shrine of yo

    
ur lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins and yo

              
u can sharpen 

       
your knife
              
Offer me that 

            
deathless deat

            
h, good God, l

              
et me give you

      (
 my life
             
Take me to chu

             
rch I'll worsh

              
ip like a dog 

              
at the shrine 

         
of your lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins so you

              
 can sharpen y

      
our knife
              
Offer me that 

            
deathless deat

            
h, good God, l

              
et me give you

    
 my life

    
Verse 2
            
 If I'm a paga

            
n of the good 

            
times, my love

            
r's the sunlig

  
ht
              
To keep the Go

            
ddess on my si

            
de she demands

          
 a sacrifice
              
Drain the whol

     
e sea, get som

ething shiny
            
 Something mea

            
ty for the mai

            
n course, that

              
's a fine look

            
ing high horse
              
What you got i

          
n the stable? 

              
We've a lot of

            
 starving fait

    
hful
              
That looks tas

   
ty, that looks

 plenty, this 

is hungry work



Chorus
        
 Take me to ch

             
urch I'll wors

              
hip like a dog

              
 at the shrine

          
 of your lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins so you

              
 can sharpen y

      
our knife
             
Offer me my de

             
athless death,

            
 good God, let

              
 me give you m

  
y life
             
Take me to chu

             
rch I'll worsh

              
ip like a dog 

              
at the shrine 

         
of your lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins so you

              
 can sharpen y

      
our knife
             
Offer me my de

             
athless death,

            
 good God, let

              
 me give you m

  
y life

Bridge
            
 No masters or

              
 kings when th

          
e ritual begin

s
             
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 t

          
hen I am clean

        
     Oh

         
Oh   Amen  Ame

   
n  Amen


Chorus
         
 Take me to ch

            
urch I'll wors

              
hip like a dog

              
 at the shrine

              
 of your lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins and yo

              
u can sharpen 

       
your knife
              
Offer me that 

            
deathless deat

            
h, good God, l

              
et me give you

    
 my life
             
Take me to chu

             
rch I'll worsh

              
ip like a dog 

              
at the shrine 

         
of your lies
              
I'll tell you 

              
my sins and yo

              
u can sharpen 

       
your knife
              
Offer me that 

            
deathless deat

            
h, good God, l

              
et me give you

      
 my life


(N.C. = No Chords. Play the tabbed bass notes marked with * and **)