Key: Bb minor
Verse 1
Bm
D
G
I only want to say,
Bm
Em
C#dim
Em
if there is a way
A
D
Take this cup away from me
F#
Bm
For I don't want to taste its poison
G
Feel it burn me
Bm
C#
I have changed, I'm not as sure
F#
As when we started
Bm
D
G
Bm
Then I was inspired
Em
A
C#dim
Now I'm sad and tired
G
Em
A
D
Listen, surely I've
F#
exceeded
Bm
Expectations, tried for three years
G
Seems like thirty
Bm
F#
Could you ask as much
Bm
from any other man?
A
G
F#
Bm
A
But if I die, see the son of proof
G
F#
And do the things you ask of me
Bm
A
Let them hate me, hit me,
G
F#
hurt me, nail me to a tree
B
I'd wanna know,
Bm
I'd wanna know my God
B
I'd wanna know,
I'd wanna know my God
Bm
I'd wanna see, I'd wanna see my God
I'd see, I'd wanna see my God
A
G
F#
Why I should die?
Bm
A
Would I be more knownest
G
than I ever was before?
F#
Bm
A
Would the things I've said and
G
done matter anymore?
F#
B
I'd have to know,
I'd have to know my Lord.
Have to know,
I'd have to know my Lord.
Bm
B
Bm
Have to see, I'd have to see my Lord.
B
Bm
Have to see, I'd have to see my Lord.
C#
If I die, what would be my reward?
F#
If I die, what would be my re ward?
C#
Have to know, have to know my Lord.
Have to know, I'd have to know my Lord.
C#m
B
A
G#
C#m
B
A
G#
Why should I die?
C#m
Can you show me now
B
A
G#
that I would not be killed in vain?
C#m
B
Show me just a little of
A
your omnipresent brain
G#
C#m
B
Show me there's a reason
A
G#
for you wanting me to die
C#m
B
You're far too keen on where and how
A
G#
C#m
F#
But you're not so hot on why
F#m
C#m
C#
Alright, I'll die
C#m
B
A
F#m
G#
Just watch me die
C#m
B
A
C#m
G#
C#
See how I die
C#m
B
A
C#m
C#
C#m
B
A
G#
C#m
B
See how far I've come
A
G#
C#m
B
A
G#
C#m
B
A
G#
C#m
B
A
G#
C#m
B
A
C#m
B
A
Then I was inspired,
G#
F#m
D#dim
now I'm sad and tired
F#m
B
G#m
E
G#
Af ter all, I tried for three years,
it seems like 19.
C#m
A
Why then am I scared
G#
to finish what I started?
C#m
D#
What you started,
G#
I didn't start it.
C#m
A
C#m
God, thy will is hard,
F#m
D#dim
F#m
But you hold every card.
B
E
I will drink your cup of poison,
G#
C#m
Nail me to your cross and break me,
A
C#m
Bleed me, beat me, kill me
G#
A
Take me now, before I change my mind
G#
G#
Now, before I change my mind!
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