Chords for Parson James - A Sinner Like You

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_ _ _ _ _ _ I don't resent the town at all, I just learned a lot from it.
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[Em] I think that [G] _ you can't really [Em] _
_ _ blame people who were raised certain ways to believe certain
things in [F] a community that is so small.
_ _ _ _ Things that are different for people that live here kind of scare them, so the fear
turns into hatred. _
_ _ _ _ _ It's definitely shaped me.
_ [C] I take all of it. _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ My mom was 16 when she had [F] me, and she was kicked out of her house for being in an interracial relationship.
_ _ Growing up with two sides _ [G] like that, especially two different races, _ _ [Em] _ there was different views [F] obviously.
_ I'd pull up into my grandma's house on my mom's side, _ there'd be a confederate flag
on my grandpa's truck, and he was like, you know what that means?
I'm like, nah, [C] that means that your grandpa hates black people. _ _
_ [F] People hate people.
_ _ [G] Those same people were going [C] to church every Sunday. _
_ To [F] them, they were people of God.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] My mom, _ she stopped going whenever I was young, because [C] a lot of the same people in those
buildings were the same people who were whispering about [F] her.
_ You're judging a woman [C] for having a mixed race child, but you can go to bed at night
and you're going to go to heaven or wherever.
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ There's [F] no thing that I could say or do about it, because I can't change who I am.
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_ _ [Em] My instincts got really good, and I started _ [Am] to realize that I can't say anything about this.
_ I convinced myself that it would just go away, and it was just like [Em] a phase, or it was just
like something that was just weird but not possibly okay.
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_ _ I didn't hear [Am] a gay singer sing to someone that he loves. _
_ [F] I didn't hear a gay man just kind of [C]
say the things that I wanted to hear to let me know
that [Am] I'm not the only one.
_ _ _ _ I have, on my [G] own, such a message to deliver. _ _ _
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_ I've lived so fast that the years flew by, and I sat there, _ and I just realized that
I still didn't have [A] what I was aiming for.
But the waiting [Em] game is just a painful game to play.
[F] So I started _ writing that [G] song, and I wrote it really quickly, because it just started
pouring out of [Am] me.
So every time that I sing it, I just go back into that place, and I'm beyond grateful to
be in a situation completely different now and sharing that part of _ myself.
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_ _ _ _ _ I've [A] been fishing, _ _ _ _ [E] can't [F#m] catch a bite.
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I've been [D] praying, _ _ _ _ ain't [A] seen that _ light. _ _
_ [D] I've [A] been searching _ _
_ _ [E] high [F#m] to the low.
_ _ _ [A] I've been [D] working, working, _ working myself [A] to the _ _ bone.
_ _ [E] Now my [F#m] skin starts to crawl.
I'm [D] gonna tear down these walls if I [A] _ don't get out.
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I've [F#m] lost heaven to hell, [D] and I know very well I'm gonna get it back. _
[E] _ _ There's just [A] this womb, _ _ _ and I [F#m] don't know how to play.
[A] It's enough of [D] a fight, _ stayin' alive [Bm] anyway.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ There's [D] a voice in [A] my pillow, _ _ _ it's [C#m] got it out [F#m] for me.
_ Mm-mm, [C#] cause it's [D] been mumbling, _ mumbling all through the night.
I [A] can't _ sleep.
_ _ _ [D] _ [A] I've been patient, _ _ _ [C#] oh, a change gonna [F#m]
come.
_ But that [C#] damn clock just don't stop ticking, [D] ticking, [G] _ [D] ticking [Bm]
away.
[A] That's the storm. _ _ _ _ _
[E] And now [F#m] my skin starts to crawl.
[D] I'm gonna tear down these walls [A] if I don't get _ out.
[E] I've [F#m] lost heaven to hell, and [D] I know very well I'm gonna get it back.
[E] _ _ There's [A] just this womb, _ _ _ [G#] and I don't [F#m] know how to play.
[A] It's enough [D] of a fight, stayin' alive [E] _ [A] anyway. _ _ _ _ _
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