Misc Musicals – Adamandi - Litany Of The Martyrs (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
              Fm
Oh, Saint Sebastian

                    Gb
Painted half-naked, eyes turned to the sky

Fm                            Bbm
Shot to death by pagan arrows

            Gb
But in your death you couldn't die
[Verse 2]
Fm
How does it feel to love your killers

Db
Spilling your blood on the roman mud?

                    Bbm
How does it feel to know you are chosen

Gm                       C
Feeling the bite of your god's harsh love?
C5 F5 [Verse 3]
                 Fm
They say if your hand won't heed your commands
It's best to cut it clean
                 Fm
They say if your eye is where wickedness lies
Better half-blind than obscene
            Db
But what if you are the core of the problem?

           Ab
Thе vessel corrupted, mеtastasized sin

Bb
How to destroy the root of your evil

     C
When evil is rooted within?
[Verse 4]
Fm
Hear me, Saint Francis

Db
Patron saint of birds and decay

Bbm
You burned in the briars your earthly desires

Gm                          C
Earned your stigmata as you bent to pray
Saints
Ab
Hands and feet in holy agony
[Verse 5]
Fm
How did it feel to know you're forgiven

Db
The blood of the passion staining your nails?

Bbm
How did it feel to prove your devotion

Gm                         C7
Touch, doubting thomas, as you were impaled?
[Verse 6]
                 Fm
They say if your hand is what causes your sin
Kill it or all of you dies
                 Fm
They say if your eye is what causes your sin
Pluck it before your demise
            Db
But what if you are the hand and the eye

                  Ab
Your shame is the vessel, you drown in your guilt

C
Awake for the surgery, reach for the scalpel
Excise the excuses you've built [Verse 7]
   Db
St Lawrence, give me strength to never shrink from fiery blows!

   Ab
St Lucy, take my hand, keep my arm steady as it goes!

   Bb
St Cassian, help me smile and ask for more pain than I've earned!

   C7
St Jude, saint of hopeless causes…
N.C. I hope your causes burn! Bbm Fm Bbm [Bridge]
Db
Hear me…

C
Hear me!

Bb C
Burn!
[Verse 8]
Db
When sin is deep inside the soul

                           Ab
To hurt it I must hurt the whole-

                         C5
No more romans light the fire
N.C So I'll have to make my pyre
Fm
Earn my peace through wax and salt

Eb
Burn away the wrong and fault

C
Sink my shame into my skin
N.C Begin again, begin again, begin again N.C. Hear me, saints, in all your forms
Fm
Don't judge my ways too well

Bbm
I don't believe in heaven

      C
But I do believe in hell!

       Fm
If the lord won't let me die for something

C
I can live to prove I'm worthy

Cm
Make his sacrifice my own

Bb
I know how you felt, now, your pain was a penance

C                                         Fm
A prayer's a deception unless it's a groan
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