Holy Pretenders chords by Rich Mullins
Verse 1
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D
I think a big mistake everybody makes
G
is they always think
Bm
there's going to be a tomorrow.
D
Everybody always thinks,
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D
you know, things are bad today.
If just live long enough,
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G
everything will be fine.
D
An d sometimes that's
Bm
true.
Sometimes things get worse.
I mean, like, you know,
look at the history of the world.
D
Things have not, in fact, got better.
A
Bm
A
Bm
A
Turn it back. It's looking pretty grim.
Bm
A lot of people just want to wring their hands,
you know, and say, Oh,
what are we going to do?
You know, everything's
getting so bad.
People are so lonely.
People are doing desperate things.
G
D
You know, ra cism is a big deal still.
You know, and now there's terrorism.
G
Bm
You know, you add terrorism to racism,
you got real problems.
G
You got people wanting
to kill each other
D
Bm
in Asia and in America and everywhere. and everybody says,
you know, what can I do?
G
You know, people get really depressed,
you know, because they think there's
Bm
A
nothing they can do about it.
Bm
Maybe there's nothing you can do
about the people
G
in Afghanistan.
I don't know. Maybe there's nothing you can do
Bm
about the situation in Poland.
G
But the real tragedy
Em
is that most people don't
do anything
Bm
about the situation that they've got just
in their immediate proximity.
I think it all comes back to a lack of faith.
G
I think we want a chief God.
I think we want a God
who is easy to follow,
D
who is easy to believe in,
and easy to set aside
C
Bm
whenever we're ready to do that.
D
And then when we have to live with the res
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ults of that kind of faith,
Bm
we don't like him so much.
Because if you don't be
G
lieve he's really there,
D
then you can't believe
A
he can really change things.
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G
Am
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Em
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Dm
C
G
Am
You think you know so well
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G
C
G
about how the world could be fixed
Am
Bm
It's just your own life's problems
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D
that you can't handle
C
And no one can hear you cryin'
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Bm
Em
No one can see your pain
Bm
C
You keep it all inside
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Dsus4
So it don't interfere with the game
D
C
that you play with those
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Saints are sinners,
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G
no one knows who's who
C
D
Everybody's got secrets
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D
Bdim
to keep
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G
Holy pretenders,
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Em
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tryin' to feel God's shoes
C
When they haven't got
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C
D
the right size feet
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Am
Open the churches with the
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G
bishops an d all
Em
Dm
C
Preach it in the name of Je sus
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Am
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Just show a selfless interest
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Am
in the garb of spiritual talk
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D
Giving your clientele prestigious
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No one can see you're shaking
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Bm
D
Em
You're too proud to let it out
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C
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Like God would oversee you
Dsus4
D
If you ever confessed your doubt
Well, you're one of them
C
G
Saints or sinners
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G
No one knows who's who
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D
Everybody's got secrets
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D
Bdim
to keep
C
G
B
Holy pretenders been try
Em
in' to feel God's shoes
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C
D
G
An d I haven't got the right size feet
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C
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I know I'm one of us two
Em
D
G
I worked out my own game
C
Bm
Em
and I'm frozen with fear like you
Am
Oh Lord, won't you melt in the
D
warmth of your hands
C
G
Us saints and sinners
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G
with nothing but pain to lose
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Dsus4
Giving up all the secrets
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G
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Bdim
we keep
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All us holy pretenders,
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Em
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we could never fill your shoes
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Am
D
Help us, Lord, to follow in your footsteps
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D
Bdim
C
Help us, Lord, to follow
Am
D
C
G
Am
in your footsteps
Holy Pretenders
Rich Mullins
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