Cover art for Take Me To Church by MILCK

Take Me To Church

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Sep. 20161 viewer

Take Me To Church Lyrics

[Verse 1]
My lover's got humor
She’s a giggle at a funeral
Knows everybody's disapproval
I should've worshipped her sooner
If the heavens ever did speak
She’s the last true mouthpiece
Every Sunday's getting more bleak
A fresh poison each week
"We were born sick"
You heard them say it
My church offers no absolutes
She tells me, "Worship in the bedroom"
The only Heaven I'll be sent to
Is when I'm alone with you
I was born sick, but I love it

[Pre-Chorus]
Amen, amen
Amen, amen

[Chorus]
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins so you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life
[Verse 2]
If I'm a pagan of the good times
My lover is sunlight
To keep the goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice
To drain the whole sea
Get something shiny
This is hungry work

[Chorus]
Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I’ll tell you my sins so you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

[Bridge]
No masters or kings when the ritual begins
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am human
Only then I am clean

[Pre-Chorus]
Good God, let me give you my life
[Chorus]
Take me to church
I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

[Outro]
Let me give you my life
Let me give you my life

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MILCK covered Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” for Empire’s Season 3 trailer.

To the delight of many, she kept the original pronouns in her version.

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September 2016
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