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