Church Underground

She stood spotlit in a plain print dress

Came howling out of the wilderness

Gm................F..........................C

....There beat a cunning and murderous heart

Beneath that calm exterior

"You know my name

You don't know my mind

Don't doubt my eyes

They betray the past

Gm............F

....And I've already forgotten

....Much more than you will ever know"

Dm..................................F

....And every word that I have spoken is true

.....Except for those that were broken in two

C/Bb......................................F/A

.....I'm trying to make peace after a long night of pretend

C/Bb...............................F/A

.....I need a pawnbroker or a moneylender

Why do you do me down, Mister?

..............F.......C

Sing "Hallelujah," Sister

C/Bb ...........................F/A

Turn up the volume, just to turn it down

Dm.........Dm/C...........G/B

The trivial secrets buried with the profound

....C.................................F............C/E...Dm

It's enough to put a Church Underground

....C.................................F............C/E...Dm

It's enough to put a Church Underground

.....Deflowered young and then ever since

She's tried to wash off his fingerprints

Gm.......F.................C

So every charlatan and prince

Was made to feel inferior

She worked for tips in a 10-cent dance

Said moving pictures might pay perchance

Gm......F.........................C

10,000 one-way tickets to the sparkling coast

From the blank interior

Dm..................F/A

Everybody's either talking in code

Or getting ready to explode

C/Bb..........................F/A

Then she was singing in a five-piece band

C/Bb...........................F/A

But seems that no-one really wants this sound

Why do you do me down, Mister?

..............F.......C

Sing "Hallelujah," Sister

C/Bb ...........................F/A

Turn up the volume, just to turn it down

Dm.........Dm/C...........G/B

The trivial secrets buried with the profound

....C.................................F............C/E...Dm

It's enough to put a Church Underground

....C.................................F

It's enough to put a Church Underground

Bb..................F.........................C/E

.....The shaft of fanlight streaked with rain

.......................A...............................Eb

Poured through the glass, punched through the pain

...........D........................Gm...........................C

The holy picture hidden in the midden of that poisoned stitch

.............Gm........Gm/Bb.....Am

Her lonely voice was just a ruin in these riches

She must have been dreaming this all along

Could she be redeeming herself in song?

Bb..................F....................Em

.....“I'm no-one's martyred, plaster saint

............A7

Below the grease, beneath the paint”

.....Dm

I'm rolling like barrel

Swinging like a gallows

.....G/B

I'm rising up fast like all hell and all hallows

Why do you do me down, Mister?

..............F.......C

Sing "Hallelujah," Sister

C/Bb ...........................F/A

.... I'll be damned or purgatory bound

Dm.........Dm/C..............G/B

....Before those jokers ever understand

....C.................................F............C/E...Dm

It's enough to put a Church Underground

....C.................................F............C/E...Dm

It's enough to put a Church Underground

....C.................................F............C/E...Dm

It's enough to put a Church Underground