So... I'm re-doing this because I'm a goober and did it in the wrong key. I'm pretty
this is right.
Song: Matthias Replaces Judas
Artist: Showbread
Album: No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical
Year: 2004
Standard Tuning
Capo 4
C Am F
it is so that my transgressions have born a withered fruit,
G
the sun has scorched the rising plants;
C Am
alas they have no root, the bleached bones of animals bound by leather
F
strips,
G C
dance through the air with laughter as I wield this wicked whip,
Am F
as you did warn me carpenter, this world has weakened my heart,
G C
so easily I disparage, self-seeking the work of my art,
Am F
and there you have come to me at the moment I bathe in my sorrow,
G C
so in love with myself, sought after avoiding tomorrow,
Am F
where do you find the love to offer he who betrays you?
G C
and offer to wash my feet as I offer to disobey you,
Am F
your beauty does bereave me, and how my words do fail,
G C
so faithfully and dutifully I award you with betrayal,
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Am F C
the weak and the down trodden fall on broken legs,
G Am
as I walk past a smile I cast, fervor in my stead,
F C
but my bones like plastic, do buckle backward now,
G C
I lay in this field by Judas' bowels and anticipate the plow,
F Am
I can not be forgiven; my wages will be paid,
G C
for those more lovely and admirable is least among the saved,
F
and where would I fit Jesus?
Am
what place is left for me?
G C
the price of atonement is more than I've found to offer up as my plea,
C Am F G
Jesus my heart is all I have to give to you, so weak and so unworthy,
C Am F
this simply will not do, no alabaster jar, no diamond in the rough,
G C
for your body that was broken, how can this be enough?
Am F
by me you were abandoned, by me you were betrayed,
G C
yet in your arms and in your heart forever I have stayed
C Am F
Your glory illuminates my life, and no darkness will descend,
G C
for you have loved me forever, and your love will never end
