The Wrote & the Writ chords by
Johnny Flynn

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Intro 1

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They're taking pictures of the

Verse 1

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man from God

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G

I hope his cassock's clean

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The burden of being our holy fellas

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G

C

Your halo'd better gleam, better gleam

Verse 2

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Am

What of all those wayward priests?

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G

The ones who like to drink

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Do you suppose they'd swap

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Am

their blood for wine

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C

Like you swapped yours for ink, for ink

Am

You wrote me oh so

Verse 3

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F

many letters

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G

And all of them seemed true

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F

Promises look good on paper

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C

Especially 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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Am

You wouldn't put your pen to bed

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G

When we hadn't found our own, our

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own

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Verse 5

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Your sentences rose high at night

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G

And circled round my head

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The circle's since been broken

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C

Like the priest before me is

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C

breaking bread

Verse 6

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I'm being asked to drink the

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Am

blood of Christ

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And soon I'll eat his flesh

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G

Am

I'm alone again before the altar

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Shedding all my old regrets

Verse 7

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The last of which I'll tell you now

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G

As it flies down the sink

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I never knew a part of you

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C

You didn't set in ink, in ink

Verse 8

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Am

The letters that you left behind

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No longer shall I read

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Your blood's between the pages

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C

And I can't stand to see you bleed

Interlude 1

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Verse 9

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And I'll soon forget what

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was never there

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G

Your words are ash and dust

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All that's left is the song I've sung

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G

C

The breath I've taken and the one I must

Verse 10

C

If you're born with a love for

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Am

the wrote and the writ

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People of letters your

G

warning stands clear

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Pay heed to your heart and

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Am

not to your wit

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Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear

Outro 1

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