After The Pain Chords by Betty Wright

[C] _ _ _ _ Well, I couldn't resist the urge to tell you the end of my [Am] story.
[Dm] For all of those who wanted to know, was there life after the pain?
_ [C] After the pain, _ you come [F] and love me. _
_ _ [C] And I welcome you. _
_ You're a [F] glad sight to see. _ _
_ _ _ [C] After the rain and all that [Dm] I have been through, _
_ _ [C] I still can't explain how I can still [F] love you like I do.
But I do, yes I do, still [C] love you like I do. _
After the pain, though [Am] you still do me like you do me.
_ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [C] After the pain, _ we sit [F] and we talk a while. _
[Dm] _ _ [C] And I fight with all my might to hold back the tears from [Dm] falling with a pleasant smile. _
_ _ _ [C] After the rain, _ I can't believe you [Dm] got the nerve to still call me baby.
_ _ [C] And I try to tell you no, it ain't so, but I guess no [F] just ain't in me. _
[Dm] Cause boy I still [C] love you like I do. _ _
[Am] Boy you still [Dm] do me like you do me.
[F] _ _
Yeah, _ [C] _ I know you're laughing, [F] those of you who heard pain.
[C] Yeah, you're right, I sure did.
I said I'd never take [F] it back again.
[Dm] Well, it's a woman's [C] prerogative to change her mind, isn't it?
Well, we do it [Dm] all the time.
Don't laugh, you've [C] probably done the same thing too.
It's just that you [F] know me and I don't know you.
You [C] know one thing time has taught me that having a [Dm] piece of man is better than having no man at all.
So [C] I'm gonna just take what I got and work with it.
You understand what I [Dm] mean?
Now don't you remember thinking [C] back just a few years when people used to [F] try to help you stay together.
They try not to on the verge of [C] breaking up.
They used to cook up a little food and throw [Dm] a little party and went for things that you didn't like.
[C] Don't blame Mr.
Charlie.
Mr.
Charlie is just a man and [Dm] he's doing the best he can. _
I heard him [C] say, don't blame Mr.
Charlie.
Mr.
Charlie is just a man and [F] he's doing the best he can.
That's [Dm] why I still [C] love you like a baby. _
Boy, you still [Am] move me like a [Dm] baby.
_ [Am] _
[Dm] _ I [C] know that you know it's true.
After all I've been through, I [F] should be through with love.
But [Dm] there's a God up above that [C] keeps saying, better try.
Don't give up, [Em] you know.
The [F] sun is gonna shine cause you are [Dm] mine.
You [C] just keep doing your best.
I _ _
_ _ _ [F] love you baby like I do.
[Dm] That's why I still [C] love you like I do. _ _
Boy, you still [F] move me like you do. _ _
[Dm] _ My [C] love is _ deeper than any ocean.
And my [F] love is higher _ _ _
[Dm] than any mountain.
[Em] My [C] love is full of emotion.
_ My [F] love is full [Dm] of devotion.
_ My [C] love is in and out [G] the [C] season.
And I love [Dm] you with or without a reason.
You [C] see, God is gonna bless me for loving you.
[F] For all the times that you treated me wrong and I [Dm] kept being true.
[C] You see, God's eyes, they're like ghosts.
He's not asleep.
[F] Said he's watching every move you [Dm] make, every secret to [C] keep.
Boy, you better be careful.
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] Said [C] if you treat me bad or make me sad, my Father in [F] heaven is watching you. _ _
[Dm] But I still [C] love you like I do.
And no, no, no, no, no, no, no, [Dm] nobody's ever gonna love you like I [Am] do.
Say, [Dm] no one's ever [C] gonna love you like _ I do.
No one's ever [F] gonna love you like _ I do.
[Dm] No one's ever [C] gonna love you like _ _ _ I [Dm] do.
I don't know why I do, but I do, yes I [Em] do.
Oh, [G] there's a woman in [Em] me that keeps [D] on [Dm] loving you.
I don't know why I [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ do, but [Am] I _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] do, yes _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ I [Am] do.
[Dm] Baby, don't you know it's true, yes I do.
[Em] Baby, no strange, _ _ still love you.
[F] _ _ [N] _