Wartime Prayers chords by Paul Simon
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Prayers offered in times
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of peace are silent conversations,
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Appeals for love or love's release
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C
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In private invocations
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C
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But all that is changed now,
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Gone like a memory from the day
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before the fires.
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People hungry for the voice of God
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Hear lunatics and liars
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Wartime prayers, wartime prayers
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In every language spoken,
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For every family scattered and
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broken.
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Verse 2
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Because you cannot walk with the holy,
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If you're just a halfway decent man.
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I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind
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With a genius marketing plan.
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I'm trying to tap into some wisdom,
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Even a little drop will do.
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I want to rid my heart of envy
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And cleanse my soul of rage
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Before I'm through.
Verse 3
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Times are hard,
it's a hard time
But everybody knows all
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about hard times.
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The thing is, what are you gonna do?
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Well, you cry and try to muscle through
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Try to rearrange your stuff
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But when the wounds are
deep enough,
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It's all that we can bear,
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We wrap ourselves in
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D
prayer.
Verse 4
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Because you cannot walk with the holy,
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If you're just a halfway decent man.
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I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind
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With a genius marketing plan.
A
I'm trying to tap into some wisdom,
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Even a little drop willdo.
F#m
I want to rid my heart of envy
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And cleanse my soul of rage
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Before I'm through.
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A mother murmurs in twilight sleep
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And draws her babies closer.
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With hush-a-byes for for
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for sleepy eyes,
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And kisses on the shoulder.
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To drive away despair
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She says a wartime prayer
Wartime Prayers
Paul Simon
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