[Verse 1]
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My lovers got humour
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Shes the giggle at a funeral
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Knows everybodys disapproval
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I shouldve worshipped her sooner
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If the heavens ever did speak
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Shes the last true mouthpiece
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Every Sundays gettin more bleak
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A fresh poison each week
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We were born sick, you heard them say it
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My church offers no absolutes
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She tells me, “Worship in the bedroom”
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The only heaven Ill be sent to
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Is when Im alone with you
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I was born sick, but I love it
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Command me to be well
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[Pre-Chorus]
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A, amen
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Amen, amen
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[Chorus]
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Take me to church
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Ill worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
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Ill tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
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Offer me that deathless death
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Oh, good God, let me give you my life
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Take me to church
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Ill worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
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Ill tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
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Offer me that deathless death
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Oh, good God, let me give you my life
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[Verse 2]
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If Im a pagan of the good times
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My lovers the sunlight
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To keep the goddess on my side
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She demands a sacrifice
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Drain the whole sea, get somethin shiny
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Somethin meaty for the main course
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Thats a fine lookin high horse
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What you got in the stable?
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Weve a lot of starvin faithful
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That looks tasty, that looks plenty
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This is hungry work
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[Chorus]
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Take me to church
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Ill worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
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Ill tell you my sins, so you can sharpen your knife
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Offer me my deathless death
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Oh, good God, let me give you my life
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Take me to church
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Ill worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
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Ill tell you my sins, so you can sharpen your knife
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Offer me my deathless death
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Oh, good God, let me give you my life
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[Bridge]
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No masters or kings when the ritual begins
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There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
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In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
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Only then, I am human, only then, I am clean
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[Pre-Chorus]
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Oh, oh, amen
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Amen, amen
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[Chorus]
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Take me to church
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Ill worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
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Ill tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
~#**************#~
Offer me that deathless death
~#**************#~
Oh, good God, let me give you my life
~#**************#~
Take me to church
~#**************#~
Ill worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
~#**************#~
Ill tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
~#**************#~
Offer me that deathless death
~#**************#~
Oh, good God, let me give you my life
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[Produced by Hozier and Rob Kirwan]
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[Video directed by Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson]
