Intro:
AmA2AmA2A9
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AmA2Am
Listen to the tales and romanticize,
A2A9
How we'd follow the path of the hero.
AmA2Am
Boast about the day when the rivers overrun.
A2A9
How we rise to the height of our halo.
AmA2Am
Listen to the tales as we all rationalize
A2A9
Our way into the arms of the savior,
AmA2Am
Feigning all the trials and the tribulations;
A2A9AmA2AmA2A9 (repeat if desired)
None of us have actually been there. Not like you.
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AmA2Am
Ignorant siblings in the congregation
A2A9
Gather around spewing sympathy, Spare me.
AmA2Am
None of them can even hold a candle up to you.
A2A9
Blinded by choice, these hypocrites won't see.
AmA2
But, enough about the collective Judas.
Am
Who could deny you were the one who
A2A9
Illuminated your little piece of the divine?
AmA2
And this little light of mine, a gift you passed on to me;
AmA2A9
I'm gonna let it shine to guide you safely on your way, Your way home ...
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Instrumental break: AmA2AmA2A9AmA2AmAsus4A2A9
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AmA2Am
Oh, what are they going to do when the lights go down
A2A9
Without you to guide them all to Zion?
AmA2Am
What are they going to do when the rivers overrun
A2A9
Other than tremble incessantly?
AmA2AmA2
High is the way, but all eyes are upon the ground.
AmA2AmA2
You were the light and the way they'll only read about.
AmA2AmA2
I only pray, Heaven knows when to lift you out.
AmA2A9 (one strum, hold)
Ten thousand days in the fire is long enough;
AmA2AmA2A9
You're going home.
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AmA2Am
You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
A2A9
Shake your fists at the gates saying: "I've come home now!"
AmA2
Fetch me the spirit, the son, and the father.
AmA2
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended.
(I just go crazy on A9 here but you can throw in Am, A2, Asus4, A5, whatever)
A9
It's time now!
A9
My time now!
A9A9AmA2AmA2A9
Give me my, give me my wings!"
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AmA2AmA2A9
Hey oh, whoa oh oh oh o-oh, o-oh, o-oh, o-oh
AmA2AmA2
Hey oh, whoa oh oh oh
A9
You are the light and way that they will only read about.
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AmA2AmAsus4DDGG
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AmA2AmAsus4
Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance,
DG
Burden of proof tossed upon the believers.
AmA2AmAsus4
You were my witness, my eyes, my evidence,
DGAmA2AmA2A9 (slowing down)
Judith Marie, unconditional one.
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AmA2A9
Daylight dims leaving cold fluorescents.
AmA2Asus4A9
Difficult to see you in this light.
AmA2A9
Please forgive this bold suggestion, but
AmA2Asus4A9
Should you see your Maker's face tonight,
AmA2A9
Look Him in the eye, look Him in the eye, and tell Him:
AmA2A9
"I never lived a lie, never took a life, but surely saved one.
AmA2AmAsus4A2A
Hallelujah, it's time for you to bring me home."
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.