Guitar chords: Dm, Am, C, G
Standard Tuning
Intro: 2 measures instrumental
Verse:
Dm Am
Oh, I don't know why people lie
C G
and I don't know why people die
Dm Am
EVerytime I see you shout at me
C G
cause of all of the things in the world that I can't see
Pre Chorus: (2nd verse, substitute words in parentheses)
Dm Am
And what I think goes on in this world
C G
for a mother and a father and a boy and a girl (kid)
Dm Am
is that the more you earn the less you learn
C G
there's a fact in life where you (we) will burn
Chorus:
G Dm
And I never could believe it
Am C
and I never could be true
G Dm
father, things that mean so much to me
Am C
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don't mean that much to you
G Dm
and I never could believe the way
Am C
you told me I was wrong
G Dm
if I'm right and if you are simple sin
Am C
for God's sake I was wrong
2 measures instrumental: Dm Am C G
Verse:
Oh I don't know how I think this way
how you sit there looking at me all day
there's more to you than I can see
there's a shadow of a mother hanging over me
Pre chorus
Chorus
4 measures instrumental: Dm Am C G
Outro Chorus:
G Dm Am C
Oh I tell you out of heaven and I tell you out of hell
and I see your life in ruins, you're just earning that as well
and I cry out in my loneliness, well used to be your peace
but you'll never see my face again, oh I need words like these
Outro: 6 measures instrumental: G Dm Am C