Key: G
Introduction:
G
I tried my best to keep you here
E4 G
But it's hard to hold a shadow
G
You said goodbye but I couldn't hear
E4 G
Too busy praying for a miracle
Em C9
And you left me on my knees
G D
You just walked out the door
Em C9
You didn't even have the decency to intervene
C9 D
while I was begging God for
You to love me
Em
I prayed about us every night
E4 G
Boy I know you had to hear me
Em (hold strings)
E4 G
But instead you pulled the pillow over your head
Em C9
And you left me on my knees
G D
You just walked out the door
Em C9
You didn't even have the decency to intervene
C9 D
while I was begging God for
You to love me
Em C G D
You should've told me it was useless,
That I was praying empty prayers
Em C
And I know that He had something better to do
G D
Than to sit and listen to a broken-hearted fool
Could've been saving the world from a tragedy,
Em C9
And you left me on my knees
G D
You just walked out the door
Em C9
You didn't even have the decency to intervene
C9 D
while I was begging God for
You to love me
G
I tried my best to keep you here
E4 G
But it's hard to hold a shadow