Human Sacrifice

Verse (key of Bb; F, Eb, Dmsus2, Eb…C

GUITAR: capo5 ; C, Dm, Am, Dm…G ):

Chorus (key of F/; Bb, Cmaj, Bb, D/ Eb

GUITAR: capo5 Fmaj, G, Fmaj, Am/Dm)

I lived long with the look of a circuitous journey

grown green as light drained from a clean bright bulb

I lived long with a twisted stump, wasted where a mad world chewed a fine mind to a wretched pulp

I lived long with a leaking kindness, watching warm blood downed in sickening gulp after gulp

It’s human sacrifice

Cutting loose a loved one

But you just can’t keep

A loose noose hanging around

(Bb… to verse)

You opened up your heart and froze up

unwilling to go forward, unable to go back

And you read between the lines til

you began to miss the point

And now you can’t even give up what’s already been burned black

In the fog of war you fell for

Your own encore

You fell down to family

Who couldn’t save you from

Your one way track

It’s human sacrifice

…

[Turn the ground

Round and round]

(Bb, C…Bb G, to verse)

And i’ve loved so many

And so many let me down

I’ve buried bones in every single town

And I’m SO sorry to have let you down

And i’m SO SO sorry to see you drown

But it’s written the book that the ancients call the truth

It’s stained red and I’ve made my bed, I’ve made my bed

It’s human sacrifice

Cutting loose a loved one

But you just can’t keep

A loose noose hanging around

[And i can hear the count down

to your final sound

Your blackened sound

Your dark damp final sound]

(Bb, C… G, to verse)

I forgive you