Chords for Astronautalis - "The Case for William Smith" (Violitionist Sessions)

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[Db] _ William holds his [Fm] palm out [F] proud, upon the [Eb] Bible lays it down.
_ _ Solemnly swears against it, _
[F] that every [Eb] word is true. _ _
[Bbm] _ [Bb] Searching through the faceless crowd, [C] in the hallowed [Eb] _ _ auditorium.
_ _ Everyone's turned against him, _
[C] his [Eb] endless pursuit. _ _
[Ab] _ Saga that he spells out, [F] his mother's [Eb] grabbing children. _
Grown men twisting mustaches, [Ab] as priests move out the suits. _ _
[Eb] _ William hammers right along, [Fm] and ignores the banging [Eb] gavel of
_ judges' plea for [Fm] order, in the chaos [Eb] of the room.
[Bbm] _
_ _ Outside my cell, the nooks are gross.
_ [F] _ [Eb] Through the fence line, towards the sun, they [Bb] build a barrier of bar.
Pushed butt against [G] bar, till it's [Eb] burled and furled, and the branches straw.
[Bbm] As if it's the ones that hang me in my hole, as they may hear through sun and [F] snow.
Bars [Eb] may scrawl, but cannot stop the mighty oak.
[Bbm] _ By turning over and out, just to give them that, [F] the persistence that they [Eb] need,
stops the cataclysm's escape.
[Bbm] Finally stands tall, the limbs make the fence fall.
[F] Slow and scared, [Eb] and we call it the god of salt.
[Bb] The waters flashes, the wall patches, rage the palms in the air.
I even [F] wonder how this happened, [Eb] when he fights against the [Bb] king.
This is a pound of bleach, it seems to set him some stake.
[F] Shot me from the [Eb] space, and reinstated me in your grave.
[Bb] Joseph said you'd be one day, my father promised me.
[F] And I never thought he [Eb] would come to quit, quite honestly. _
[Bbm] _ William holds his palm out [C] proud, upon the [Ebm] Bible lays it down.
[Bbm] The only swears against him, [Cm] _
[C] that every [Eb] word is a _ lie.
[Bbm] _ Flushing through the faceless [C] crowd, in a [Ebm] hollowed out _ quarry.
[Bbm] _
_ Everyone's earned his, _ [Cm] _
and his in this.
[Ebm] _ _ _ You [Bbm] told me back then, that the words from my [C] pen, were bread and [F] me a pain.
[Eb] I didn't ever change a damn [Bbm] thing.
Shockingly he is, pretty [Ab] super clear.
[F] But some are such a [Eb] sense of menace, [Bb] the status we can bear.
He [Bb] more than well aware, that you all were unprepared.
[F] This nearing death is [Eb] another means, to break apart [Bb] its flares.
My covenant in questioning, career [Ab] upon the line.
[F] Suffer your [Eb] requisites, just with the clarity of [Bb] mind.
Charges that you lay against me, give a [Ab] clear of faith.
[F] Your burden you will shame, [Eb] when you face every soon [F] paradise.
[Bb] He knows what is odd, as a Hamilton, Hamilfax [F] song.
Frequently made [Eb] familiar, words just seem a [Bb] tad odd.
God is just not the way he lives, except from [Fm] your little of a message.
Can you [Eb] tell the truth from Mount Chisell's heaven?
[Ab] This is [Db] it!
_ The things [Ab] that's won, such suspicions that's me [Ebm] sobbing.
From restriction of Joseph's [Ab] mind.
Had to be from a consistent continuity.
Been [F] an over here always [Eb] in good stead.
_ [Ab] _ _
[Bbm] We'll hear the moans upon our [Ab] brow.
[F] Storm of [Eb] life who lays it down.
[Bbm] _ Solemnly swears against you.
[Cm] _ _
_ Everyone [Eb] is thrown. _ _
[Bbm] _ Touching to the faceless [Bb] crown.
[F] I know [Eb] that story _ [Bbm] of,
Everyone's turned against [C] me. _
In their [Ebm] head muscles. _ _
[Bbm] _ Hogger that he fell down. _
[F] Mother was [Eb] grabbing his head right. _
[Bbm] Old man just threw a [C] stack of chips.
In the [Ebm] house. _ _ _
[Bbm] _ William held his right [Bb] arm. _
[F] _ Ignored [Ebm] the pain he never loved.
[Bbm] _ Judges please your honour.
[C] _
In the chaos [Ebm] of the room.
Of [Bbm] the room.
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[F] Chaos _ [Bb] of the room.
Of the room.
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_ [F] Chaos [Bb] of the room.
Of the room.
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ [F] Chaos _ [Eb] of the room.
[Bb] Of the room.
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[Ab] _ _ [F] Chaos [Eb] of the room.
Of [Bbm] the room. _ _ _
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