Note: Please note that the album and single versions differs a bit. This is based on the album version.
[Intro]
| Cadd2 | Cadd2 | Dsus2 | Dsus2 |
| Eb6/Bb | Eb6/Bb | A5+7 | A5+7 |
| Bm7 | (x4)
| Em7 | Bm7/D | Cmaj7 | Bm7 B7 | (x2)
[Verse]
Em7
Watching them come and go
Bm7/D
The Templars and the Saracens
Cmaj7
They're travelling the holy land
Bm7 B7
Opening telegrams, wohoo
Em7
Torture comes and torture goes
Bm7/D
Knights who'd give you anything
Cmaj7
They bear the cross of Coeur de Leon
Bm7 B7
Salvation for the mirror blind, wohoo
[Bridge]
Cm
But if you pray
Bb
all your sins are hooked
F/A
upon
G#6
the sky
Dm Am/C G#6 G
Pray and the heathen lie will disappear
[Chorus]
Cadd2
Prayers they hide
Dsus2
the saddest view
Eb6/Bb
Believing the strangest things,
D7sus4
loving the alien
Cadd2 Dsus2
And your prayers they break the sky in two
Eb6/Bb D7sus4
Believing the strangest things, loving the alien
[Instrumental]
| Bm7 | (x2)
| Em7 | Bm7/D | Cmaj7 | Bm7 B7 |
[Verse]
Em7
Thinking of a different time
Bm7/D
Palestine a modern problem
Cmaj7
Bounty and your wealth in land
Bm7 B7
Terror in a best laid plan, wohoo
Em7
Watching them come and go
Bm7/D
Tomorrows and the yesterdays
Cmaj7
Christians and the unbelievers
Bm7 B7
Hanging by the cross and nail
[Bridge]
Cm
But if you pray
Bb
all your sins are hooked
F/A
upon
G#6
the sky
Dm Am/C G#6 G
Pray and the heathen lie will disappear
[Chorus]
Cadd2
Prayers they hide
Dsus2
the saddest view
Eb6/Bb
Believing the strangest things,
D7sus4
loving the alien
[Outro]
Cadd2 Dsus2
And your prayers they break the sky in two
Eb6/Bb D7sus4
Believing the strangest things, loving the alien