The Wrote & The Writ-Johnny Flynn

[ti:The Wrote & The Writ] [ar:Johnny Flynn] [al:A Larum] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.00]The Wrote & The Writ - Johnny Flynn [00:09.00] [00:10.00]Written by：Johnny Flynn [00:18.00] [00:27.23]Taking pictures of the man from God [00:29.93] [00:30.72]I hope his cassock's clean [00:32.38] [00:33.23]The burden of being our holy fellas [00:36.40]Your halo'd better gleam better gleam [00:38.94] [00:41.04]What of all those wayward priests [00:43.33] [00:44.07]The ones who like to drink [00:45.53]Do you suppose they'd swap [00:47.77]Their blood for wine [00:48.77] [00:49.45]Like you swapped yours for ink for ink [00:51.98] [00:54.38]You wrote me oh so many letters [00:57.52]And all of them seemed true [00:59.18] [01:00.13]Promises look good on paper [01:03.17]Especially from you from you [01:05.76] [01:07.66]The weight of all those willing words [01:10.90]I carried all alone [01:12.72] [01:13.33]You wouldn't put your pen to bed [01:15.74] [01:16.25]When we hadn't found our own our own [01:19.07] [01:31.82]Your sentences rose high at night [01:34.47] [01:34.98]And circled round my head [01:36.79] [01:37.49]The circle's since been broken [01:39.93] [01:40.58]Like the priest before me is breaking bread [01:43.19] [01:44.95]I'm being asked to drink the blood of christ [01:48.54]And soon I'll eat his flesh [01:50.27] [01:50.90]I'm alone again before the altar [01:53.84] [01:54.49]Shedding all my old regrets [01:57.03] [01:58.96]The last of which [01:59.97]I'll tell you now [02:02.00]As it flies down the sink [02:03.74] [02:04.59]I never knew a part of you [02:07.89]You didn't set in ink in ink [02:10.02] [02:12.30]The letters that you left behind [02:14.69] [02:15.19]No longer shall I read [02:17.98]Your blood's between the pages [02:20.58] [02:21.17]And I can't stand to see you bleed [02:24.01] [03:07.28]And I'll soon forget what was never there [03:09.66] [03:10.26]Your words are ash and dust [03:12.19] [03:12.86]All that's left is the song I've sung [03:15.50] [03:16.16]The breath I've taken and the one I must [03:18.50] [03:20.51]If you're born with a love for the [03:21.92]Wrote and the writ [03:22.93] [03:24.01]People of letters your warning stands clear [03:26.46]Pay heed to your heart and not to your wit [03:28.74] [03:29.37]Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear