Plough The Shit chords by Ben Caplan

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse:

D#mD#m
The world is an overflowing gutter
 BB
It bubbles with the brine of shit and blood
  G# minorG#m
And those who keep their eyes upon the heavens
    BB                 A#A#  E MajorE
Are the ones that end up faces down in the mud

D#mD#m
It's easy to speak of grand ambitions
 BB
Its easy to pretend your innocent
 G# minorG#m
But lest you get distracted by the suffering of your sister
   BB               F#7A#7  E MajorE
Being practical and trying to pay the rent

Chorus:

BB               D#mD#m
Heaven has been promised to the righteous
G# minorG#m          F#F#
Hell's an overpopulated pit
C#C#    F#7A#7      D#mD#m   A#A#
Purgatory's given to the dreamers
    BB        F#7A#7         D#mD#m
But the world belongs to those who plow the shit


Verse:

There's a special place in hell for fancy talkers
     BB
There's a special place in heaven for the whores
    G# minorG#m
There's a throne reserved for those with good ideas
   BB              F#7A#7
Stolen by the demagogues who wanted more

 D#mD#m
The flowers and the laces in the market
    BB
Are all purchased by the peddlers of the flesh
 G# minorG#m
But those who bring relief and carnal pleasure
     BB             F#7A#7
Sometimes serve the needs of mankind for the best

Chorus:

  BB             D#mD#m
Cast off the limitations of the righteous
   G# minorG#m                F#F#
There are good deeds only devils can commit
   C#C#        F#7A#7        D#mD#m   A#A#
Let us dance between the teardrops and the angels
    BB        F#7A#7         D#mD#m
For the world belongs to those who plow the shit


Bridge:

BB                  G# minorG#m
At last the supreme maker decreed that this creature
                      BB
To whom he could give nothing wholly his own

Should have a share
              F#7A#7           D#mD#m
In the particular endowment of every other creature

Taking man therefore this
D#mD#m
Creature of indeterminate image
 BB
He set him in the middle of the world
           G# minorG#m
And thus spoke to him
           BB
We have given you, oh Adam
        F#7A#7
No visage proper to yourself
            D#mD#m
No endowment properly your own

In order that
                    BB
Whatever price, whatever form, whatever gifts you may with

Premeditation select
         G# minorG#m
These same may you have and possess
                    BB
Through your own judgement and decision
         F#7A#7
We have made you a creature neither of heaven
D#mD#m
Nor of Earth!

Neither mortal
 D#mD#m
Nor immortal!
 BB
In order that you may
                       G# minorG#m
As the free and proud shaper of your own being

Fashion yourself in the form you may propose
 BB         A#mA#m
It will be in your power
            D#mD#m
To descend to the lower brutish forms of life
        BB
You will be able through your own judgement and decision
     G# minorG#m
To rise again to the superior orders
  BB     F#7A#7
Of life is divine!


Verse:

 D#mD#m
The dead become the emperors of memory
  BB
The saints have all been eaten by the worms
 G# minorG#m
The living will write a twisted future
  BB                 F#7A#7
And the sinners all have practical concerns

  D#mD#m
The sentinels with rifles on the border
 BB
Of the pretenses of charity are swept
 G# minorG#m
Oh but let's not talk of slipping into nightmares
    BB               F#7A#7
For the day is run by those who haven't slept


Chorus:

 BB               D#mD#m
So throw away the vestments of the righteous
  BB             D#mD#m
Make sure the body almost lovely fits
  C#C#       F#7A#7         D#mD#m    A#A#
The souls are taken flight now from the birdhouse
    BB        F#7A#7        D#mD#m
And the world belongs to those who plow the shit