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Sheep (The Church Song)

from Supernova Live by Gloria Pritchard

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lyrics

(do the bridge chords as intro)
In the middle of a city that no one sees
Stands a towering church with a spear-like steeple
And every other day the pastor
Gathers a large, stoic herd of people

In the corner of the church that no one sees
Stood a short, skinny boy with black, dead eyes,
And every other day the pastor
Failed to hear the short skinny boy’s cries

This boy had gone to church his entire life,
And to massive applause, accepted God at seven.
They pushed him into line, drilled into his mind,
Gave him a book so fine, called How to Get to Heaven.
The smiling elders told him:

BRIDGE:
“Take a leap
Of faith, lest you want to sleep
In hell because we are the sheep
Of God, who is the shepherd!”

But as the years flew by, a problem arose,
‘cause on every rose there are piercing thorns.
This boy who’d been told that he was a sheep,
Looked into the mirror, saw that he had horns.
The large stoic herd of people
Cast him away and slit his throat.
They told him that his horns meant that he was evil –
Unfortunately for him,

(C, D, Em)
he would never know,
That he was only a goat.

In the middle of self-righteousness that no one sees
Lay a short, bloody goat, their quivering catch.
And today and every other day the pastor
Gathers the sinful in a herd to dispatch

(optional)
BRIDGE:
I want to die
Because my people cry
Antichrist at every lie
That they find

Played on acoustic guitar
Em-Am-G
Bridge: Dm-Fmaj7-C-E

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from Supernova Live, released August 3, 2020

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I play acoustic guitar, ukelele, and sing about queer shit. Apparently that maens I'm folk/punk/indie/queercore.

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