Dax - Dear God (Lyrics) Chords
Tempo:
117.1 bpm
Chords used:
C#
D#m
F#
G#
G#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[D#m]
[F#] I just want to make this clear.
[C#]
I am a believer.
[G#] [D#m]
But sometimes it gets [F#] hard.
[C#]
My name is Tex.
[G#] And you can hear me.
[D#m] Dear God, [F#] there's a lot of questions that I have about the past.
And [C#] I don't want to hear it from a human.
You made it so you're [G#] the last person that I'm ever gonna ask.
[D#m] Tell me what's real.
Tell me what's fake.
[F#] Why is everything about you a debate?
[C#] What's the point of love?
Every time I [G#] showed it I was broken and it forced me just to only want to hate.
Why [D#m] is there only one you but multiple religions?
Why [F#] does every conversation end in a division?
Why [C#] does everybody want to tell us how to live but they won't [G#] listen to the same damn message that they give us?
Tell [D#m] me how to feel.
Tell me what's wrong.
I [F#] tried to call.
Pick up the phone.
[C#] Come on my all.
Everybody says you coming [G#] back to man.
Why the hell is it taking so [D#m] long?
Why do I hurt?
Why is there pain?
[F#] Why does everything good always have to change?
[C#] Why does everybody try to profit off another man's [G#] work then destroy it just for monetary gain?
Tell [D#m] me are you black or are you white?
I don't even really [F#] care.
I just really want to know what's right.
They been [C#] saying one thing but I been looking in the book.
And it seems [G#] like they been lying for my whole damn life.
[D#m] Tell me where I'm going.
Where?
Is it heaven or hell?
[F#] I just hope this message greets you well.
Had a [C#] dream that I was walking with the devil.
Don't remember how it [G#] feels but I swear that I remember the smell.
Looked me [D#m] right into my eye and told me everything I wanted could be [F#] mine if I gave up and decided to sell.
But I said [C#] I'd rather die than get mine.
Now I'm here.
No [G#] fear.
One man with a story to tell.
Dear [D#m] God where were you when I needed it?
When I fucked [F#] up and repeated it?
When they set the bar and I [C#] exceeded it?
My life is like a book that they've been judging by a [G#] cover but have never took the time to fucking read the shit.
[D#m] I remember telling you my goals and my dreams but you [F#] didn't even answer so I guess you didn't believe in it.
[C#] I remember sitting with a gun to my head trying to [G#] ask you for some help but I [C#] guess you didn't believe in it.
I [D#m] don't want religion I need that spirituality.
I [F#] don't want a church I need people to call a family.
[C#] I don't want to tell my sins to another sinner just [G#] because he's got a robe and he went to some [D#m] academy.
I don't want to read it in a book I want to hear it from you.
[F#] Don't want to learn it in my school because they hiding the truth.
[C#] Don't want to talk about it to another fucking human [G#] being and that's the only reason that I even slept in this place.
[D#m] Dear God how [F#] do I take this darkness and turn it into light?
[C#] How do I believe in a concept where I speak to a [G#] man I've never seen with my own two eyes?
[D#m] How do I know that religion wasn't made just to [F#] separate the world and create a whole new sky just to [C#] keep us in these chains while the rich get richer and the [G#] poor pray to you and perpetuate a lie?
[D#m] How do I know this ain't some big joke?
How [F#] can I have faith when there is no hope?
How the [C#] hell does one man have a hundred billion dollars and we [G#] still have people on the street that'll broke?
[D#m] There's a lot of things I want to talk about and get off my chest.
[F#] I can't sleep because the devil won't let me [C#] rest.
I used to know a fucking pastor in a church and I can still hear the [G#m] screams of the kids he will fucking [D#m] molest.
Dear God!
[F#] I'm [C#] supposed to fear you but you ain't said shit so [G#] maybe it's you who actually [D#m] fears me.
I don't know the answer I just want to see it clearly.
[F#] So many lies and a thousand different theories.
[C#] All I want to know is who really made religion because I [G#] know it wasn't you but don't nobody believe me.
[D#m] No more lies, no more death.
[F#] Bring back king, bring back X.
[C#] Please dear God let their souls rest.
[G#] Protect who's left and watch their steps.
[D#m] Dear God!
I [F#] don't want to have to ask you again.
I [C#] just hope that you know that I'm still a believer so [G#] I'll end this all.
By [D#m] saying amen.
[F#] [C#]
[G#] [D#m]
[F#] [C#]
[G#]
[C]
[F#] I just want to make this clear.
[C#]
I am a believer.
[G#] [D#m]
But sometimes it gets [F#] hard.
[C#]
My name is Tex.
[G#] And you can hear me.
[D#m] Dear God, [F#] there's a lot of questions that I have about the past.
And [C#] I don't want to hear it from a human.
You made it so you're [G#] the last person that I'm ever gonna ask.
[D#m] Tell me what's real.
Tell me what's fake.
[F#] Why is everything about you a debate?
[C#] What's the point of love?
Every time I [G#] showed it I was broken and it forced me just to only want to hate.
Why [D#m] is there only one you but multiple religions?
Why [F#] does every conversation end in a division?
Why [C#] does everybody want to tell us how to live but they won't [G#] listen to the same damn message that they give us?
Tell [D#m] me how to feel.
Tell me what's wrong.
I [F#] tried to call.
Pick up the phone.
[C#] Come on my all.
Everybody says you coming [G#] back to man.
Why the hell is it taking so [D#m] long?
Why do I hurt?
Why is there pain?
[F#] Why does everything good always have to change?
[C#] Why does everybody try to profit off another man's [G#] work then destroy it just for monetary gain?
Tell [D#m] me are you black or are you white?
I don't even really [F#] care.
I just really want to know what's right.
They been [C#] saying one thing but I been looking in the book.
And it seems [G#] like they been lying for my whole damn life.
[D#m] Tell me where I'm going.
Where?
Is it heaven or hell?
[F#] I just hope this message greets you well.
Had a [C#] dream that I was walking with the devil.
Don't remember how it [G#] feels but I swear that I remember the smell.
Looked me [D#m] right into my eye and told me everything I wanted could be [F#] mine if I gave up and decided to sell.
But I said [C#] I'd rather die than get mine.
Now I'm here.
No [G#] fear.
One man with a story to tell.
Dear [D#m] God where were you when I needed it?
When I fucked [F#] up and repeated it?
When they set the bar and I [C#] exceeded it?
My life is like a book that they've been judging by a [G#] cover but have never took the time to fucking read the shit.
[D#m] I remember telling you my goals and my dreams but you [F#] didn't even answer so I guess you didn't believe in it.
[C#] I remember sitting with a gun to my head trying to [G#] ask you for some help but I [C#] guess you didn't believe in it.
I [D#m] don't want religion I need that spirituality.
I [F#] don't want a church I need people to call a family.
[C#] I don't want to tell my sins to another sinner just [G#] because he's got a robe and he went to some [D#m] academy.
I don't want to read it in a book I want to hear it from you.
[F#] Don't want to learn it in my school because they hiding the truth.
[C#] Don't want to talk about it to another fucking human [G#] being and that's the only reason that I even slept in this place.
[D#m] Dear God how [F#] do I take this darkness and turn it into light?
[C#] How do I believe in a concept where I speak to a [G#] man I've never seen with my own two eyes?
[D#m] How do I know that religion wasn't made just to [F#] separate the world and create a whole new sky just to [C#] keep us in these chains while the rich get richer and the [G#] poor pray to you and perpetuate a lie?
[D#m] How do I know this ain't some big joke?
How [F#] can I have faith when there is no hope?
How the [C#] hell does one man have a hundred billion dollars and we [G#] still have people on the street that'll broke?
[D#m] There's a lot of things I want to talk about and get off my chest.
[F#] I can't sleep because the devil won't let me [C#] rest.
I used to know a fucking pastor in a church and I can still hear the [G#m] screams of the kids he will fucking [D#m] molest.
Dear God!
[F#] I'm [C#] supposed to fear you but you ain't said shit so [G#] maybe it's you who actually [D#m] fears me.
I don't know the answer I just want to see it clearly.
[F#] So many lies and a thousand different theories.
[C#] All I want to know is who really made religion because I [G#] know it wasn't you but don't nobody believe me.
[D#m] No more lies, no more death.
[F#] Bring back king, bring back X.
[C#] Please dear God let their souls rest.
[G#] Protect who's left and watch their steps.
[D#m] Dear God!
I [F#] don't want to have to ask you again.
I [C#] just hope that you know that I'm still a believer so [G#] I'll end this all.
By [D#m] saying amen.
[F#] [C#]
[G#] [D#m]
[F#] [C#]
[G#]
[C]
Key:
C#
D#m
F#
G#
G#m
C#
D#m
F#
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _
_ [F#] I just want to make this clear.
_ [C#] _
I am a believer.
[G#] _ _ _ _ [D#m] _
But sometimes it gets [F#] hard.
_ _ _ [C#] _
My name is Tex.
[G#] And you can hear me.
_ [D#m] Dear God, [F#] there's a lot of questions that I have about the past.
And [C#] I don't want to hear it from a human.
You made it so you're [G#] the last person that I'm ever gonna ask.
[D#m] Tell me what's real.
Tell me what's fake.
[F#] Why is everything about you a debate?
[C#] What's the point of love?
Every time I [G#] showed it I was broken and it forced me just to only want to hate.
Why [D#m] is there only one you but multiple religions?
Why [F#] does every conversation end in a division?
Why [C#] does everybody want to tell us how to live but they won't [G#] listen to the same damn message that they give us?
Tell [D#m] me how to feel.
Tell me what's wrong.
I [F#] tried to call.
Pick up the phone.
[C#] Come on my all.
Everybody says you coming [G#] back to man.
Why the hell is it taking so [D#m] long?
Why do I hurt?
Why is there pain?
[F#] Why does everything good always have to change?
[C#] Why does everybody try to profit off another man's [G#] work then destroy it just for monetary gain?
Tell [D#m] me are you black or are you white?
I don't even really [F#] care.
I just really want to know what's right.
They been [C#] saying one thing but I been looking in the book.
And it seems [G#] like they been lying for my whole damn life.
[D#m] Tell me where I'm going.
Where?
Is it heaven or hell?
[F#] I just hope this message greets you well.
Had a [C#] dream that I was walking with the devil.
Don't remember how it [G#] feels but I swear that I remember the smell.
Looked me [D#m] right into my eye and told me everything I wanted could be [F#] mine if I gave up and decided to sell.
But I said [C#] I'd rather die than get mine.
Now I'm here.
No [G#] fear.
One man with a story to tell.
Dear [D#m] God where were you when I needed it?
When I fucked [F#] up and repeated it?
When they set the bar and I [C#] exceeded it?
My life is like a book that they've been judging by a [G#] cover but have never took the time to fucking read the shit.
[D#m] I remember telling you my goals and my dreams but you [F#] didn't even answer so I guess you didn't believe in it.
[C#] I remember sitting with a gun to my head trying to [G#] ask you for some help but I [C#] guess you didn't believe in it.
I [D#m] don't want religion I need that spirituality.
I [F#] don't want a church I need people to call a family.
[C#] I don't want to tell my sins to another sinner just [G#] because he's got a robe and he went to some [D#m] academy.
I don't want to read it in a book I want to hear it from you.
[F#] Don't want to learn it in my school because they hiding the truth.
[C#] Don't want to talk about it to another fucking human [G#] being and that's the only reason that I even slept in this place.
[D#m] Dear God how [F#] do I take this darkness and turn it into light?
[C#] How do I believe in a concept where I speak to a [G#] man I've never seen with my own two eyes?
[D#m] How do I know that religion wasn't made just to [F#] separate the world and create a whole new sky just to [C#] keep us in these chains while the rich get richer and the [G#] poor pray to you and perpetuate a lie?
[D#m] How do I know this ain't some big joke?
How [F#] can I have faith when there is no hope?
How the [C#] hell does one man have a hundred billion dollars and we [G#] still have people on the street that'll broke?
[D#m] There's a lot of things I want to talk about and get off my chest.
[F#] I can't sleep because the devil won't let me [C#] rest.
I used to know a fucking pastor in a church and I can still hear the [G#m] screams of the kids he will fucking [D#m] molest.
Dear God!
_ _ [F#] _ _ I'm [C#] supposed to fear you but you ain't said shit so [G#] maybe it's you who actually [D#m] fears me.
I don't know the answer I just want to see it clearly.
[F#] So many lies and a thousand different theories.
[C#] All I want to know is who really made religion because I [G#] know it wasn't you but don't nobody believe me.
[D#m] No more lies, no more death.
[F#] Bring back king, bring back X.
[C#] Please dear God let their souls rest.
[G#] Protect who's left and watch their steps.
[D#m] Dear God!
I [F#] don't want to have to ask you again.
I [C#] just hope that you know that I'm still a believer so [G#] I'll end this all.
By [D#m] saying amen.
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] I just want to make this clear.
_ [C#] _
I am a believer.
[G#] _ _ _ _ [D#m] _
But sometimes it gets [F#] hard.
_ _ _ [C#] _
My name is Tex.
[G#] And you can hear me.
_ [D#m] Dear God, [F#] there's a lot of questions that I have about the past.
And [C#] I don't want to hear it from a human.
You made it so you're [G#] the last person that I'm ever gonna ask.
[D#m] Tell me what's real.
Tell me what's fake.
[F#] Why is everything about you a debate?
[C#] What's the point of love?
Every time I [G#] showed it I was broken and it forced me just to only want to hate.
Why [D#m] is there only one you but multiple religions?
Why [F#] does every conversation end in a division?
Why [C#] does everybody want to tell us how to live but they won't [G#] listen to the same damn message that they give us?
Tell [D#m] me how to feel.
Tell me what's wrong.
I [F#] tried to call.
Pick up the phone.
[C#] Come on my all.
Everybody says you coming [G#] back to man.
Why the hell is it taking so [D#m] long?
Why do I hurt?
Why is there pain?
[F#] Why does everything good always have to change?
[C#] Why does everybody try to profit off another man's [G#] work then destroy it just for monetary gain?
Tell [D#m] me are you black or are you white?
I don't even really [F#] care.
I just really want to know what's right.
They been [C#] saying one thing but I been looking in the book.
And it seems [G#] like they been lying for my whole damn life.
[D#m] Tell me where I'm going.
Where?
Is it heaven or hell?
[F#] I just hope this message greets you well.
Had a [C#] dream that I was walking with the devil.
Don't remember how it [G#] feels but I swear that I remember the smell.
Looked me [D#m] right into my eye and told me everything I wanted could be [F#] mine if I gave up and decided to sell.
But I said [C#] I'd rather die than get mine.
Now I'm here.
No [G#] fear.
One man with a story to tell.
Dear [D#m] God where were you when I needed it?
When I fucked [F#] up and repeated it?
When they set the bar and I [C#] exceeded it?
My life is like a book that they've been judging by a [G#] cover but have never took the time to fucking read the shit.
[D#m] I remember telling you my goals and my dreams but you [F#] didn't even answer so I guess you didn't believe in it.
[C#] I remember sitting with a gun to my head trying to [G#] ask you for some help but I [C#] guess you didn't believe in it.
I [D#m] don't want religion I need that spirituality.
I [F#] don't want a church I need people to call a family.
[C#] I don't want to tell my sins to another sinner just [G#] because he's got a robe and he went to some [D#m] academy.
I don't want to read it in a book I want to hear it from you.
[F#] Don't want to learn it in my school because they hiding the truth.
[C#] Don't want to talk about it to another fucking human [G#] being and that's the only reason that I even slept in this place.
[D#m] Dear God how [F#] do I take this darkness and turn it into light?
[C#] How do I believe in a concept where I speak to a [G#] man I've never seen with my own two eyes?
[D#m] How do I know that religion wasn't made just to [F#] separate the world and create a whole new sky just to [C#] keep us in these chains while the rich get richer and the [G#] poor pray to you and perpetuate a lie?
[D#m] How do I know this ain't some big joke?
How [F#] can I have faith when there is no hope?
How the [C#] hell does one man have a hundred billion dollars and we [G#] still have people on the street that'll broke?
[D#m] There's a lot of things I want to talk about and get off my chest.
[F#] I can't sleep because the devil won't let me [C#] rest.
I used to know a fucking pastor in a church and I can still hear the [G#m] screams of the kids he will fucking [D#m] molest.
Dear God!
_ _ [F#] _ _ I'm [C#] supposed to fear you but you ain't said shit so [G#] maybe it's you who actually [D#m] fears me.
I don't know the answer I just want to see it clearly.
[F#] So many lies and a thousand different theories.
[C#] All I want to know is who really made religion because I [G#] know it wasn't you but don't nobody believe me.
[D#m] No more lies, no more death.
[F#] Bring back king, bring back X.
[C#] Please dear God let their souls rest.
[G#] Protect who's left and watch their steps.
[D#m] Dear God!
I [F#] don't want to have to ask you again.
I [C#] just hope that you know that I'm still a believer so [G#] I'll end this all.
By [D#m] saying amen.
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
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