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Matthias Replaces Judas

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Song: Matthias Replaces Judas
Artist:  Showbread
Album:  No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical
Year:  2004

Standard Tuning
Capo 3

G                    Em                                C
it is so that my transgressions have born a withered fruit,
                          D
the sun has scorched the rising plants;
                   G                          Em
alas they have no root, the bleached bones of animals bound by leather
 C
strips,
D                              G
dance through the air with laughter as I wield this wicked whip,

                    Em                                    C
as you did warn me carpenter, this world has weakened my heart,

             D                                      G
so easily I disparage, self-seeking the work of my art,

                          Em                               C
and there you have come to me at the moment I bathe in my sorrow,

                 D                             G
so in love with myself, sought after avoiding tomorrow,
                       Em                           C
where do you find the love to offer he who betrays you?

D                          G
and offer to wash my feet as I offer to disobey you,

Em                              C
your beauty does bereave me, and how my words do fail,
                   D                            G
so faithfully and dutifully I award you with betrayal,


                       Em                    C
the weak and the down trodden fall on broken legs,
                  D                          G
as I walk past a smile I cast, fervor in my stead,
                     C                        Em
but my bones like plastic, do buckle backward now,

                        D                                G
I lay in this field by Judas' bowels and anticipate the plow,
              C                          Em
I can not be forgiven; my wages will be paid,

                             D                          G
for those more lovely and admirable is least among the saved,
                        C
and where would I fit Jesus?
                      Em
what place is left for me?
                           D                                      G
the price of atonement is more than I've found to offer up as my plea,

G                       Em                C                   
D
Jesus my heart is all I have to give to you, so weak and so unworthy,

                     G                Em                      C
this simply will not do, no alabaster jar, no diamond in the rough,

                        D                        G
for your body that was broken, how can this be enough?

                 Em                        C
by me you were abandoned, by me you were betrayed,

                     D                             G
yet in your arms and in your heart forever I have stayed

G                 Em                                   C
Your glory illuminates my life, and no darkness will descend,

                        D                                G
for you have loved me forever, and your love will never end

Note: I got these chords from the only tab of this song and I put a capo on and 
it, being that it's impossible for me to play a C#m and a B on my guitar. (The original chords 
E C#m A B instead of G Em C D).

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Matthias Replaces Judas

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