Wake Up My Children chords by The Rep

SimplifiedAm · F · Dm · Em

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Verse 1
Am 
F 
Am 
F 
Am 
I'm not fired, quit man,
I tried but I just can't
F 
Sometimes I cut my wrist,
get tired, I switch hands
Dm 
I don't sing no  voice,
like a choir that just stands
Em 
And all they could say is like,
why are these kids sad?
F 
Am 
The bully at  my school
F 
sits by me and just laughs
I like this girl, I'm nothing to admire,
I'm just trash
Dm 
I know cause daddy said
F 
he wishes that I was dead
Em 
The teachers talk about me
F 
like Christopher's on the edge
Am 
And so I sleep at night
with a crucifix in my bed
F 
But if God's in my heart,
why's Lucifer in my head?
My only hope seems to be death
Am 
and it's so near
Em 
If God talks to me,
F 
the message is so clear
Am 
No wonder I'm alone,
F 
I guess I'm just so weird
Ain't afraid of death,
I'm already dead, so there's no fear
Dm 
Now that the smoke is clear
F 
Am 
and it's out in the open air
Em 
My couch is  a broken chair,
Am 
I'm shouting but no one hears
F 
Wake up my children,
Am 
F 
you've overcome
Asking my name and it will be done
Dm 
A doctor comes not for the healthy
F 
but for the sick
Em 
F 
And I   have come that
Am 
you may live on
Waking my children you've
F 
overcome
Asking my name and it will be done
A doctor comes not for the healthy
but for the sick
And I have come that
you may live on
Am 
My name's Elizabeth,
but you can call me a ghost
F 
Cause I do not exist,
and in my heart there's a hole
Am 
I try to hide it well,
F 
but now it's starting to show
And I'll probably die in hell,
what a marvelous hope
Am 
And my  father's on dope,
F 
he could've bought us a coat
It was cold,
instead he bought a quarter of coke
They said that God loves me,
and they said that I'm perfect
Em 
But my boyfriend raped me,
F 
and he said I deserve it
Am 
He's right,
F 
that's why I just never step into churches
I feel like a hypocrite
when I lift my head and just worship
Dm 
I was blessed with a cursing,
F 
I am less than a person
Em 
Lying bent with a skirping,
F 
my own head is a circus
Am 
My friend on Facebook tried
F 
her best to convert me
She doesn't understand,
I cried and said I'm just hurting
Tired, guess I'm just searching,
expired, dead with no purpose
Em 
I replied LOL, so why the eff am I worth it?
Am 
Wake up my children, you've overcome
F 
Asking my name and it will be done
Dm 
F 
A doctor comes, not for the healthy,
but for the sick
Em 
F 
And I   have come that you may live on
Am 
Wake up my children, you've overcome
F 
Asking my name and it will be done
A doctor comes, not for the healthy,
but for the sick
And I have come that you may live on
Am 
They say my mind is twisted,
but yet I speak mine
F 
They heard the streets calling,
I heard the beep line
Dm 
They saw the leaves falling,
F 
I thought the tree cried
Em 
F 
I   see a pie chart, they see a peace sign
Am 
Is the glass full or half empty,
F 
choose either
I just drank it, put it back on the table,
said neither
My dad was a believer, but he left me
Am 
F 
So that leaves me to believe
Em 
F 
that there's nothing to believe in
Am 
I put my two cents in
the wishing well
and watched them sink
F 
They said it's heaven or it's hell,
I go with option C
They love the preacher,
Dm 
F 
I just wonder do he wash his teeth
Em 
Before he kissed the secretary,
F 
swept her off her feet
Am 
Hey Jeremiah,
F 
how come you don't laugh like the other kids
That's what they say about me,
I make my
My favorite color's black,
my favorite number's six
Em 
I do not want to die,
F 
but I don't want to live
Am 
F 
Am 
Wake of my children you've overcome
F 
Asking my name and it will be done
Dm 
A doctor comes not for the healthy
F 
but for the sick
And I have come that you may live on
Am 
F 
Wake of my children you've
Am 
F 
overcome
Asking my name and it will be done
A doctor comes not for the healthy
but for the sick
Am 
And I have come that you may live on
F 
Wake of my children you've
overcome
Asking my name and it will be done,
Dm 
a doctor comes not for the healthy
F 
but for the sick
Em 
F 
And I   have come that
Am 
you may live on,
F 
wake of my children you've
overcome
Asking my name and it will be done,
a doctor comes not for the healthy
F 
but for the sick
And I have come that you may live on