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Cry for Judas


Intro: A

A                               D
Some things you do, just to see,
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How bad they'll make you feel
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Sometimes you try to freeze time
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Till the slots are a blur of spinning wheels


A	        D
But I am just a broken machine
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and I do things that I don't really mean
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Long black night, morning frost,
   	  F#m		   D
I'm still here, but all is lost.


A		          D
Speed up to the precipice,
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and then slam on the brakes.
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Some people crash two or three times,
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and then learn from their mistakes.


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We are the ones who don't slow down at all
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and there's nobody there, to catch us when we fall
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Long black night, morning frost,
	  F#m	  	   D	
I'm still here, but all is lost.

E

D					      A
Feel the storm every night, hope it passes by. 
E	            D	    		        A
Hallucinate a shady road where Judas went to die


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Unfurl the black velvet alter cloth,
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Draw the white chalk back on it
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Mistreat your alter boys long enough,
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And this is what you get.

A	             D
Sad and angry, can't learn how to behave,
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Still won't know how, in the darkness of the grave
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Long black night, morning frost,
	  F#m		   D
I'm still here, but all is lost.

-Tabbed by Benjamin Havey