Chords
The Accidental Protege

Key: G

Introduction:  Em   C   G   Em   C   G   Em   Am   C   G   C   Em  

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        When you prey in silence
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        And see our Jesus stagger
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        Awake! Take a perfumed candle
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        And use life like a dagger
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        I'm your accidental protégé
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        The gift, the blood, the thrown away
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        The silver chain has broken?
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        Goals and dreams fulfill
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        With emptiness with instinct
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        With impurity and will
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        I'm your accidental protégé
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        The grave of love, the yesterday
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        In this, my year of three winters
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        Where orchards fade, fade and fall
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        Like the loaf of love's new bake
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        Fallen, beautiful, adored?
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        I'm your accidental protégé
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        The gift, the blood, the thrown away
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        I thought I found a paradise
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        But, paradise came and wept
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        Like the wind through the, winter's woods
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        It cowed and took a breath
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        I'm your accidental protégé
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        The grave of love, the yesterday

 Em                     Am                 C 
        I'm your accidental protégé
 G                                 C                   Em 
        The gift, the blood, the thrown away