Key: D minor
Verse 1
C#m
As I raise my head to
B
G#m
C#m
broadcast my objec tion
As your latest triumph
B
C#m
draws the final straw
B
G#m
C#m
Who died and lifted you up to perfection?
B
C#m
And what silenced me is written into law
Verse 2
C#m
B
I can't believe where
C#m
circumstance has thrown me
B
C#m
And I turn my head away
B
C#m
If I look I'm not sure that I could face you
G#m
B
Not again. Not today. Not today.
C#m
Verse 3
B
G#m
C#m
If hatred makes a play on me tomor row
And forgiveness takes a back
B
C#m
seat to revenge
There's a hurt down deep that has
B
C#m
not been corrected
There's a voice in me
B
C#m
that says you will not win
Verse 4
C#m
B
C#m
And if I ignore the voice inside
B
C#m
Raise a half glass to my home
B
C#m
But it's there that I am most afraid
G#m
And forgetting doesn't
B
hold. It doesn't hold.
C#m
Verse 5
E
Now I don't believe
and I never did
C#m
That two wrongs make a right
E
If the world were filled
C#m
with the likes of you
Then I'm putting up a fight.
E
I'm putting up a fight.
C#m
G#m
Putting up a fight. Make it right.
B
Make it right.
C#m
Verse 6
C#m
Now love cannot be called
B
G#m
C#m
into ques tion
B
C#m
Forgiveness is the only hope I hold
B
And love - love will be my
G#m
C#m
strongest weapon
B
C#m
I do believe that I am not alone
Verse 7
C#m
B
C#m
For this fear will not destroy me
B
C#m
And the tears that have been shed
B
C#m
It's knowing now where I am weakest
G#m
B
C#m
And the voice in my head. In my head.
Verse 8
B
C#m
Then I raise my voice up higher
B
C#m
And I look you in the eye
B
And I offer love with one
C#m
condition
G#m
B
With conviction, tell me why.
C#m
Tell me why.
G#m
Tell me why.
B
Look me in the eye.
Outro 1
Tell me why.
C#m
G#m
B
C#m
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