The Golden Calf

G#m E C#m D#7
G#m E C#m D#7

[Verse 1]
G#m                            E
As you dance around the golden calf 
your spinning gown
               C#m                 
Showed all the hungry boys in town 
              D#7
what they had missed
     G#m                           
They thought that you had found the
        E
 echoes of that holy sound
              C#m                  
Which God had spat into the ground 
            D#7
that he had kissed
              G#m                  
Your soul was tearing and a thread 
              E
was dragged behind you as you fled
         C#m                       
Into the shadows of the bed in 
      D#7
which you hid
    G#m                            
And as the whispers spread the 
  E
color darkened to a red
     C#m                           
That stained all you ever said with
          D#7
 what you did


[Chorus]
     B                            
And I met you one night through a 
A
trick of the light
  C#m                 B
A thousand lifetimes ago
B                      A
I held your face in my hands and I 
traced
      C#m                      B
Every line you never wanted to show
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          A
'Cause I know
C#m                      B        
We are the children that never let 
 A
go
C#m                      B        
We are the children that never let 
 A
go

[Transition]
E

[Verse 2]
G#m                               
As they poured across the borders of
E
 your dress they crossed
         C#m                       
Into the layer of the frost around 
     D#7
your name
          G#m                 
And every one of them was lost 
             E
between the hammer and the cross
         C#m                     
That you labelled and then tossed 
          D#7
into the flame
           G#m                  
You know I never meant to try to 
       E
teach anything but my
            C#m                    
Commandment smashed when I collided
           D#7
 with your hips
    G#m                           
And who was I to dare to love you or
E
 to interfere
             C#m                   
With all the scars that you 
              D#7
declared across your lips

[Chorus]
      B                        
And I met you one day through a 
 A
crack in the pavement
  C#m               B
A thousand silences old
B                         A
I pulled your chest to my hand and I
 pressed
      C#m                       B
Every crest that was covered in snow
            A
'Cause I know
C#m                      B        
We are the children that never let 
 A
go
C#m                      B        
We are the children that never let 
 A
go
C#m                      B        
We are the children that never let 
 A
go

[Transition]
E

[Verse 3]
G#m                               
I was forced to scavenge through 
   E
the rotten crates and salvage
         C#m                       
That was broken down and ravaged by
     D#7
 the sea
    G#m                            
And as we stepped outside we saw 
  E
the calf and then the tide
             C#m                   
Of moonlight hit its golden eye and
        D#7
 it was me...