( Bbm    Ab     C#     Cm     Fm     Eb      Ab  Gm  Ab )
( Bbm    C#     Fm     Ab )


( Bbm                    Cm  C# )


Bbm                     Cm  C#
  When I was questioned,      I shook my head and stared

Bbm                     Cm  C#
  I was traveling alone,      and had nothing to declare

Bbm                           Cm  C#
  He asked how I knew for sure      and would I tell everyone I knew

Bbm                     Cm     C#
  If it would hurt to know the truth





Bbm                    Ab      C#                    Cm
  I can be thankful to be alive but I despise this life.

Fm                     Eb  Ab                      G    Ab
  in all my years, at best, have only learned just to survive.

Bbm                          C#              Fm       Ab
  But When I look around you I understand why you believe

Bbm                          Ab
  I see your evidence of God, all around me

Bbm                             C#           Fm  Ab
  You have so therefore you are  But I have not.

Bbm                               Ab
  You've seen the evidence of God but I have not and I have none






Bbm               Cm  C#
  (When he asked me,)   I shook my head and laughed

Bbm                            Cm  C#
  I never had a taste for life       and I felt there was no turning back

Bbm                                    Cm  C#
  Would I try to take away their hope?       Replace it with reality?

Bbm                                  Cm                 C#
  Exchange their joy with my bleak view  And leave them miserable like me?





Bbm                              Ab  C#                           Cm
  I have searched and I have tried to find a place where   I can be

Fm                    Eb    Ab                      Gm    Ab
  I love my homeland dearly but never carved a place in society





Bbm                         C#                Fm      Ab
  But When I look around you  I understand why you believe

Bbm                          Ab
  I see your evidence of God, all around me

Bbm                             C#          Fm           Ab
  You have so therefore you are, but I have not

Bbm                         Ab                            Bbm
  You are too rich for hate, and I am too poor        to love.




( Bbm            Fm     Ab )




Fm                Bbm                  Gm Ab
  When I asked him , he shook his head and stared

Fm                        Bbm       Gm  Ab
  I see no evidence of God, in the men from the west

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( Fm )