Key: E minor
Intro 1
Em
Bm
G
Em
Mother's
Verse 1
crying in the street
Children dying at their feet
Bm
G
Em
Tell me why, oh tell me why
People starving everywhere
There's too much food
but there's none to spare
Bm
G
Tell me why, oh tell me why
Bm
D
G
Can you see that shaft of sunlight?
Bm
D
G
Can you see it in my eyes?
D
G
I can feel the fire that's burning
D
I'm going to hold so deep,
Em
D
Em
so deep within my heart
D
But before my eyes
G
Or for some it's too late
A
Cause it seems there's
no one listening
Em
People sleeping in the streets,
no roof above, no food to eat
Bm
G
Tell me why, oh tell me why
Em
I see the questions in their eyes,
listen to their children's cries
Bm
G
Tell me why, please tell me why
Bm
D
G
If there's a God, is he watching?
Bm
D
G
Can he give a ray of hope?
D
Em
So much pain, so much sorrow
D
G
Tell me what does he see
D
Em
When he looks at you
D
G
When he looks at me, what would he say?
A
It seems there's no
D
G
D
one listening
G
D
G
Oh, we think it still could happen
D
Even in this time and place
Em
D
C
G
Politicians, they may save themselves
Bm
C
But they won't save their face
Am
So hold against hope,
D
Em
Bm
G
it's not too late
Em
You said there's nothing you can do
So one rule for them and one for you
Bm
Tell me why
G
Just tell me why
Listen
A
Bm
D
Can you see that shad
G
owed sunlight?
Bm
D
G
Can you see it in my eyes?
D
Em
I can feel that fire that's burning
D
A
G
Anger and hope so deep,
A
Em
so deep within my heart
D
But before my eyes,
G
for some it's too late
A
And it seems there's no one listening
Em
Hurry for me, hurry for me
Hurry for me, hurry for me
Bm
G
Day and night, day and night
Em
Hurry for me, hurry for me
Hurry for me, hurry for me
Bm
G
Day and night, day and night
Em
Hurry for me, hurry for me
Bm
G
They cry, they cry
Em
Just hurry for me, hurry for me
Hurry for me, hurry for me
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