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