The Final Church chords by Current-93

Artist: Current 93
Title: The Final Church

Em A x4

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In the moonlight
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By the sea
        Em
In a country
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In a town
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Now quickly
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Now slowly
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Now in pain
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Now in love
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In different shapes
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When I was young
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When I was young
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I used to dream
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And the wind blows
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And the owl sings
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And dogs are driven wild
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And dogs break their chains
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And run through the lands
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A prey to madness
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With wild eyes dying
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With wild eyes burning
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They raise their heads
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They swell their cold necks
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Like a cat that's ripped its guts
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Like a hungry child's breath
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Like a woman about to give birth
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Like a young girl singing

Em  A x2
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At the stars in the north
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At the stars in the south
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At the stars in the west
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At the stars in the east
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At the moon
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At the mountains
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At the rocks
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At the pain
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At the thief
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At the snakes
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Reveal their black black backs
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Fresh flesh
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Glazed eyes stare
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From long pale human faces
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We cannot satisfy the hopes
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We are now dead
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We are all dead
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The hammer breaks the anvil

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Em            A
From the cleft of its hood
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It was fair as morning and full of heaven dew

Em A

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Then it put on darkness
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Declined its softness
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And put on the symptoms of its sickly age
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It bowed its head and broke its stalk
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It lost its leaves and all its beauty
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Falling to weeds and unknown faces
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The same is the portion
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Of man and woman
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The black heritage
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Of worms and serpents
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Rottenness and cold discharge

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Out beauty is now so changed
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My friends
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My friends

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By violence and secret influence
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The aspect of a star and the stink of a mist
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By emissions of a cloud
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The meeting of a vapour
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By the fall of a chariot and the stumbling at a stone
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By a full meal or an empty stomach
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By watching at wine or by watching at prayers
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By the sun or the moon
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By a heat or a cold
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By sleepless nights or sleeping days
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By water frozen
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To the hardness of a dagger

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Or water thawed into the floods of a river
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By a hair or a current
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By violent motion
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By sitting still
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Or severely
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By dissolution
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By God's mercy
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Or God's anger
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We take pains to heap up things useful to our life
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And get our deaths in the bargain and the person is snatched away

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And the goods remain and all this is
      Em            A       Em            A    Em
The law and constitution of nature unveiled it is a
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Punishment to our sins
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The unalterable event of providence and the decree
     Em      A
Of  Heaven

Em  A x7