Chords for The Gods Must be Lying Phemiec

_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ There's a [Dbm] boy here lying quiet in my [Abm] shadow like [Bb] a prayer
He [Dbm]
drips from every angle [Abm] into colors that I wear
_ [Dbm] He wanders like a saint on [Abm] predatory _ pilgrimage
_ With [Dbm] a grimace and a limp he [Abm] puts his wrist against my cartilage
And _ _ [Bbm] _
[E] I could separate these bones, [Abm] I could pack them into prose
[Dbm] Or I could hold a [E] cancer in [Abm] my soul until it _ overflows
[E] But there is only boy and [Abm] breath, gentle handprints [B] on my chest
[E] _ Nothing little, darling, dearest, [Abm] _ loveliest, _ _ sacralest
This _ boy _ [Abm] of _ _ filth [B] _
he's [E] _ _ born _ of [Abm] _ _ God's [B] _ heat
[Dbm] Clutches _ [E] at my [Abm] _
_ [B] paws, he _ [E] drags me from my [Abm] _ _ _
_ holocaust
He [E] _ _ takes my [Abm] _ limbs, [B] _ _
he [E] wraps _ them [Abm] around _ _ [B] him
He _ [E] takes my shake, _ [Abm] he takes [B] my sick, _ he _ [E] feeds me _ [B] bread and then
_ _ _ [Db] These valent, woe-eyed [Abm] dreams that light their way into my fear of me
[Bbm] And mind these [Abm] wines and sugars in my blood, they mottetate [B] your claws [Bbm] and climb
The [Abm] itch of every pale moon, love, you once swore you'd pay, never [Bbm] mind
When I [Abm] am on the side of you, I'd say my gods were always _ lying _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ There's a [E] girl pacing around me, [Abm] _ prostatizing _ [Ebm] parasites
_ _ [Dbm] _ Sick, acidic, [Abm] logic, _ ridicule, it's the ancient rite
[Em] When her teeth [E] break up on me like tiny cliffs of chalk
I [Dbm] crash into her _ canyon, lick the [Abm] _ injury [B] she likes to mark
[Bb] _
And I could [E] cut her down to size, [Abm] tap his heart, [B] his compromise
[E] Or I could watch a blind sleepwalker, [Abm] grip all sweet and non-blue eyes
[E] But there is [Dbm] only girl and [Abm] grin curling up _ my skin
[E] Picture you and I forgetting [Abm] why we let the other in
[E] This _ _ judge of _ [B] what _ _ _ [E] she's _ _ born of, _ [Abm] _ _ [B] much _ she [E] answers _ to no
[Abm]
But _ _ [B] she _ will _ not let [Abm] me chew the [B] cud she _ _ _ spits and [Abm] _ swallows
[B] _
She wears her wretched, _ [Abm]
well _ [B] _ she [E] holds my soul
With [Abm] Texas [B] toes, _ _ [Dbm] _ Texas train [Ab]
to [Abm] hell
_ _ [Eb] These [Db] violent, woe-eyed dreams [E] that might their way into [Abm] my fear of [Eb] me and mine
These whines [Abm] and sugars in my [E] blood, they _ mottetate your claws and [Db] climb
The itch of [Abm] every rotten hate, I once swore I'd pay, never [Db] mind
When I [Abm] am on the side of [E] you, you'd [Abm] say your law was [Db] always _ _ lying
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [Ebm]
Your law must [Abm] be _ lying, _ _
[E] _ _ _ my gods [Bb] they must be _ lying
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _