New Religion

Intro Principal Key: E Minor Synthesizer Only: (hold) Other Instruments: (7 bars) to (2 bars) to (8 bars) Verse 1 Principal Key: E Minor     I’ve been now sauntering     Out and down the path sometime     Come on it takes me nowhere which I knew     Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs in things     Telling me not there man it’s no go     Don’t go there boy     I need a reason     I can’t think without one now     Too much learning got to show     Call it treason     Maybe catch her don’t know how     Too many things too much to know                                                                   I?ll bring my timing in seagulls gather on the wind     Lady screaming lady leave me out    ’Cause sometimes people stare     Sitting down electric chairs     And steaming crowds they gather and they shout     Don’t know why this evil bothers me     Take another chance boy carry the fight       You can take him if you’re fast     So why is he trying to follow me?     Didn’t I say if you’re holding on       You’d be laughing at the last     How many reasons do they need?     I get along fine with them friends of mine       But you have to make a choice     I might just believe this time    You’re singing out of tune but the beat’s in time      And it’s us who makes the noise Chorus Principal Key: E Minor     I’m talking for free I can’t stop myself     It’s a new religion     I’ve something to see I can’t help myself       It’s a new religion Verse 2 (chords the same as other verses) Principal Key: E Minor     Okay my reasoning might be clouded by the sun     But someone sees the departmental lie     You know this peacetime jabbing fist in stabbing knife     Only get one look before you die Don’t know why this evil bothers me Take another chance boy carry the fight   You can take him if you’re fast So why is he trying to follow me? Didn’t I say if you’re holding on   You’d be laughing at the last How many reasons do they need? I get along fine with them friends of mine   But you have to make a choice I might just believe this time You’re singing out of tune but the beat’s in time And it’s us who makes the noise I’m talking for free I can’t stop myself   It’s a new religion I’ve something to see I can’t help myself   It’s a new religion Bridge Principal Key: E Minor (22 bars) (7 7/8 bars) (1/8 bar) Verse 3 (chords the same as other verses) Principal Key: E Minor     Gotta take pay the saints ’n sinners       In regulation hats ’n scarves ’n things     Walking in formation down the lane       They carry their cross make a church bell ring       Army majors pull a mean cool truth       There lying in a swimming pool     Searching for the undeniable truth that       A man is just a fool     Don’t know why this evil bothers me     Take another chance boy carry the fight       You can take him if you’re fast     So why is he trying to follow me?     Didn’t I say if you’re holding on       You’d be laughing at the last     How many reasons do they need?     I get along fine with them friends of mine       But you have to make a choice     I might just believe this time     You’re singing out of tune but the beat’s in time And it’s us who makes the noise Transitions Intro to Verse Chords: to Harmonic Function: i in E Minor to i in E Minor Interval: (none) Verse to Chorus Chords: to Harmonic Function: i in E Minor to VII in E Minor Interval: up 10 semitones / down 2 semitones Chorus to Verse Chords: to Harmonic Function: III in E Minor to i in E Minor Interval: up 9 semitones / down 3 semitones Chorus to Bridge Chords: to Harmonic Function: III in E Minor to i in E Minor Interval: up 9 semitones / down 3 semitones Bridge to Verse Chords: to Harmonic Function: #vii in E Minor to i in E Minor Interval: up 1 semitones / down 11 semitones