Intro: E5 A5 E5 B5

             E5
You keep coming up
        A5                E5
With new ways to say goodbye
B5                      A5
Like our love's a cage 
              E5
That will not let you fly
B5                           A5
You always know just what to say
      E5     F#5        A5
And maybe that's why
               E5
You keep coming up
         B5                 E5
With new words to make me cry


You keep coming up
With new ways to let me down
You say it's a shame 
I'll always wear a frown
You say I can't be happy 
Always feeling like a clown
But I'll play the fool 
As long as you can hang around

                F#5                    E5
I'm gonna rise, I'm gonna rise
                F#5                                                        B5
I'm gonna take to the sky on this crazy cloud of mine
           F#5         E5
I'll get by, I'll get by
                F#5                                                                B5
I'm gonna darken your days by putting the grays in your skies


And I'll keep coming up
In all the shadows of your mind
A not so distant memory
From another time
F#5                                E5 - F#5 - A5
Forever the thorn in your side
                E5
I'll be the echo
       B5                  E5
That you can never find



I'm gonna rise, I'm gonna rise
I'm gonna take to the sky on this crazy cloud of mine
I'll get by, I'll get by
I'm gonna darken your days by putting the grays in your skies

           E5    
And you'll never find
    A5                E5
Another way to say goodbye
B5                                    E5
I'm gonna rise, I'm gonna rise