The Wrote & the Writ chords by 
Johnny Flynn 
Key: C# minor•
Intro 1
C#m
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C#m
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C#m
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C#m
They're taking pictures of the
Verse 1
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man from God
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I hope his cas sock's clean
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The burden of being our holy fellas
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Your halo'd better gleam, better gleam
Verse 2
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What of all those wayward priests?
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The ones who like to drink
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Do you suppose they'd swap
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their blood for wine
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Like you swapped yours for ink, for ink
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You wrote me oh so
Verse 3
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many letters
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And all of them seemed true
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Promises look good on paper
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Es pecially from you, from you
Verse 4
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The weight of all those willing words
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I carried all alone
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You wouldn't put your pen to bed
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When we hadn't found our own, our
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own
F#m
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Verse 5
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C#m
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Your sentences rose high at night
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And circled round my head
C#m
The circle's since been broken
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Like the priest before me is
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breaking bread
Verse 6
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I'm being asked to drink the
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blood of Christ
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And soon I'll eat his flesh
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I'm alone again be fore the altar
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Shedding all my old re grets
Verse 7
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The last of which I'll tell you now
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As it flies down the sink
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I never knew a part of you
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You didn't set in ink, in ink
Verse 8
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The letters that you left be hind
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No longer shall I read
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Your blood's between the pages
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And I can't stand to see you bleed
Interlude 1
C#m
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C#m
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C#m
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C#m
F#m
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C#m
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C#m
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C#m
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C#m
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Verse 9
C#m
And I'll soon forget what
G#
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was never there
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Your words are ash and dust
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All that's left is the song I've sun g
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The breath I've taken and the one I must
Verse 10
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If you're born with a love for
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the wrote and the writ
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People of letters your
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warn ing stands clear
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Pay heed to your heart and
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C#m
not to your wit
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Don't say in a letter what you can 't in my ear
Outro 1
C#m
G#
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C#m
G#
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C#m
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C#m
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC#m G# A E B...
C#m
G#
A
E
B
F#m
Capo: 4
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