The Golden Calf

G#m E C#m D#7
G#m E C#m D#7

[Verse 1]
G#m                            E
As you dance around the golden calf your spinning gown
               C#m                               D#7
Showed all the hungry boys in town what they had missed
     G#m                                   E
They thought that you had found the echoes of that holy sound
              C#m                              D#7
Which God had spat into the ground that he had kissed
              G#m                                E
Your soul was tearing and a thread was dragged behind you as you fled
         C#m                             D#7
Into the shadows of the bed in which you hid
    G#m                              E
And as the whispers spread the color darkened to a red
     C#m                                     D#7
That stained all you ever said with what you did


[Chorus]
     B                            A
And I met you one night through a trick of the light
  C#m                 B
A thousand lifetimes ago
B                      A
I held your face in my hands and I traced
      C#m                      B
Every line you never wanted to show
          A
'Cause I know
C#m                      B         A
We are the children that never let go
C#m                      B         A
We are the children that never let go

[Transition]
E

[Verse 2]
G#m                               E
As they poured across the borders of your dress they crossed
         C#m                            D#7
Into the layer of the frost around your name
          G#m                              E
And every one of them was lost between the hammer and the cross
         C#m                               D#7
That you labelled and then tossed into the flame
           G#m                         E
You know I never meant to try to teach anything but my
            C#m                               D#7
Commandment smashed when I collided with your hips
    G#m                           E
And who was I to dare to love you or to interfere
             C#m                                 D#7
With all the scars that you declared across your lips

[Chorus]
      B                         A
And I met you one day through a crack in the pavement
  C#m               B
A thousand silences old
B                         A
I pulled your chest to my hand and I pressed
      C#m                       B
Every crest that was covered in snow
            A
'Cause I know
C#m                      B         A
We are the children that never let go
C#m                      B         A
We are the children that never let go
C#m                      B         A
We are the children that never let go

[Transition]
E

[Verse 3]
G#m                                  E
I was forced to scavenge through the rotten crates and salvage
         C#m                            D#7
That was broken down and ravaged by the sea
    G#m                              E
And as we stepped outside we saw the calf and then the tide
             C#m                           D#7
Of moonlight hit its golden eye and it was me...