The Wrote And The Writ

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They're taking pictures of the man from God
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I hope his cassock's clean
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The burden of being a holy fellow
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Your halo better gleam, better gleam

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What of all those wayward priests?
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The ones who like to drink
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Do you suppose they'd swap their blood for wine
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Like you swapped yours for ink, for ink


[Verse 2]

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You wrote me oh so many letters
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And all of them seemed true
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Promises look good on paper
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Especially from you, from you

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The weight of all those willing words
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I carried all alone
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You wouldn't put your pen to bed
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When we hadn't found our own, our own


[Verse 3]

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Your sentences rose high at night
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And circled round my head
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The circle's since been broken
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Like the priest before me is breaking bread

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I'm being asked to drink the blood of Christ
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And soon I'll eat his flesh
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I'm alone again before the altar
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Shedding all my old regrets


[Verse 4]

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The last of which I'll tell you now
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As it flies down the sink
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I never knew a part of you
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You didn't set in ink, in ink

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The letters that you left behind
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No longer shall I read
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Your blood's between the pages
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And I can't stand to see you bleed


[Verse 5]

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And I'll soon forget what was never there
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Your words are ash and dust
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All that's left is the song I've sung
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The breath I've taken and the one I must

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If you're born with a love for the wrote and the writ
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People of letters your warning stands clear
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Pay heed to your heart and not to your wit
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Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear