Plough The Shit

D#m
The world is an overflowing gutter
  B
It bubbles with the brine of shit 
and blood
   G#m
And those who keep their eyes upon 
the heavens
       B                           
Are the ones that end up faces down
       A#   E
 in the mud

D#m
It's easy to speak of grand 
ambitions
  B
Its easy to pretend you're innocent
  G#m
But lest you get distracted by the 
suffering of your sister
     B                           
Being practical and trying to pay 
   A#7    E
the rent


[Chorus]

B                              
Heaven has been promised to the 
D#m
righteous
G#m                    F#
Hell's an overpopulated pit
C#        A#7           D#m      A#
Purgatory's given to the dreamers
       B               A#7        
But the world belongs to those who
         D#m
 plow the shit


[Verse]
         D#m
There's a special place in hell for 
fancy talkers
         B
There's a special place in heaven 
for the whores
        G#m
There's a throne reserved for those 
with good ideas
      B                           
Stolen by the demagogues who 
A#7
wanted more

  D#m
The flowers and the laces in the 
market
       B
Are all purchased by the peddlers of
 the flesh
  G#m
But those who bring relief and 
carnal pleasure
         B                         
Sometimes serve the needs of 
 A#7
mankind for the best


[Chorus]

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    B                          
Cast off the limitations of the 
D#m
righteous
     G#m                           
There are good deeds only devils 
    F#
can commit
      C#               A#7        
Let us dance between the teardrops
       D#m     A#
 and the angels
       B               A#7        
For the world belongs to those who
         D#m
 plow the shit


[Bridge]

B                                 
At last the supreme maker decreed 
   G#m
that this creature
To whom he could give nothing wholly
        B
 his own

Should have a share
                           A#7     
In the particular endowment of 
                D#m
every other creature

Taking man therefore this
D#m
Creature of indeterminate image
  B
He set him in the middle of the 
world
                     G#m
And thus spoke to him
                     B
We have given you, oh Adam
                A#7
No visage proper to yourself
                        D#m
No endowment properly your own

In order that
Whatever price, whatever form, 
        B
whatever gifts you may with

Premeditation select
                 G#m
These same may you have and possess
Through your own judgement and 
        B
decision
                 A#7
We have made you a creature neither 
of heaven
D#m
Nor of Earth!

Neither mortal
 D#m
Nor immortal!
 B
In order that you may
As the free and proud shaper of your
          G#m
 own being

Fashion yourself in the form you may
 propose
 B                  A#7
It will be in your power
                       D#m
To descend to the lower brutish 
forms of life
                B
You will be able through your own 
judgement and decision
         G#m
To rise again to the superior orders
   B          A#7
Of life is divine!


[Verse]

  D#m
The dead become the emperors of 
memory
   B
The saints have all been eaten by 
the worms
  G#m
The living will write a twisted 
future
   B                               
And the sinners all have practical 
   A#7
concerns

   D#m
The sentinels with rifles on the 
border
  B
Of the pretenses of charity are 
swept
  G#m
Oh but let's not talk of slipping 
into nightmares
       B                       
For the day is run by those who 
       A#7
haven't slept


[Chorus]

  B                              
So throw away the vestments of the 
D#m
righteous
    B                          
Make sure the body armor snuggly 
D#m
fits
   C#             A#7             
The souls are taken flight now 
    D#m        A#
from the birdhouse
       B               A#7        
And the world belongs to those who
        D#m
 plow the shit