Song: Matthias Replaces Judas
Artist: Showbread
Album: No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical
Year: 2004
Standard Tuning
Capo 3
G Em C
it is so that my transgressions have born a withered fruit,
D
the sun has scorched the rising plants;
G Em
alas they have no root, the bleached bones of animals bound by leather
C
strips,
D G
dance through the air with laughter as I wield this wicked whip,
Em C
as you did warn me carpenter, this world has weakened my heart,
D G
so easily I disparage, self-seeking the work of my art,
Em C
and there you have come to me at the moment I bathe in my sorrow,
D G
so in love with myself, sought after avoiding tomorrow,
Em C
where do you find the love to offer he who betrays you?
D G
and offer to wash my feet as I offer to disobey you,
Em C
your beauty does bereave me, and how my words do fail,
D G
so faithfully and dutifully I award you with betrayal,
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/showbread/matthias_replaces_judas_crd.html ]
Em C
the weak and the down trodden fall on broken legs,
D G
as I walk past a smile I cast, fervor in my stead,
C Em
but my bones like plastic, do buckle backward now,
D G
I lay in this field by Judas' bowels and anticipate the plow,
C Em
I can not be forgiven; my wages will be paid,
D G
for those more lovely and admirable is least among the saved,
C
and where would I fit Jesus?
Em
what place is left for me?
D G
the price of atonement is more than I've found to offer up as my plea,
G Em C
D
Jesus my heart is all I have to give to you, so weak and so unworthy,
G Em C
this simply will not do, no alabaster jar, no diamond in the rough,
D G
for your body that was broken, how can this be enough?
Em C
by me you were abandoned, by me you were betrayed,
D G
yet in your arms and in your heart forever I have stayed
G Em C
Your glory illuminates my life, and no darkness will descend,
D G
for you have loved me forever, and your love will never end
Note: I got these chords from the only tab of this song and I put a capo on and
it, being that it's impossible for me to play a C#m and a B on my guitar. (The original chords
E C#m A B instead of G Em C D).
