Surrender Chords by Sevin

_ _ _ _ Oh _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ yeah _ _
[G] Lord _ _ _ I [F] _
_ surrender _ _ Lord [E] _
_ _ I surrender, _ [Am]
oh yeah _ _ _ [C] I surrender, _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
oh _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] yeah _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] My papa was a preacher, but his papa was [C] absentee.
He did the best he could to keep his son from living fast [F] and free.
Religious rules in Christian school, the other children laughed at me.
[E] Plus we never had much green, [Em] so I never did dress [Am] fashionably.
Everybody [A] wore the same old smile, but it was just a mask [C] to me.
I [G] saw through the hypocrisy when [C] the pastor made a pass [F] at me.
That bastard had a class of us and kept asking us to do nasty [Am] things
to the point [E] I have the baddest dreams of savage things [Am] attacking me.
We moved away, but you could say the tragedy had a lasting reach.
[C] [G] Locked out in the memory, [C] still can't stand to hear no pastor [F] preach.
By now I'm about eleven, and I've learned life comes with [E] hazards, B.
Sometimes I just break out in tears.
A dark cloud seems to [Am] pass through me.
My best friend was [A] my blood brother, and at thirteen he died [C] tragically.
And [G] after he passed in that car crash, I wished that that [F] was me.
I had a heart, life ripped that apart and gave me apathy.
I [E] felt God did not look after [Em] me.
All I had for him [Am] was glass.
The rain falls so soft, [C] _ the good and the bad.
_ [F] _ _ Same thing that'll make you laugh [Am] one day, well it's gonna make you sad.
And now I see, I gotta walk by [C] faith and never walk by [F] sight.
I know, _ I don't understand your [Am] ways, but I know you're always right.
And I surrender, [A] _ _ _
[Am] _ I [G] surrender, _ _ _ _ [F] I surrender, _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ all that hurts sometimes.
[Am] I went from good kid to [A] a hood kid, seemed like the change [Am] came overnight.
Life [G] cloaked him with a heart that's frozen, [Em]
rolling on [F] a stolen bike.
Smoking like a chimney with a semi sitting in that holster [Am] tight.
And [E] every other word was [Em] blood, no love for who we supposed [Am] to fight.
Went from praying prayers like, Lord I love you, I keep you close, [C] aight.
To I [G] don't know if you even there, just help me not get smoked [F] tonight.
So enticed by the thought of being loved, I'd pay the coldest [F#] price.
I done sat [E] inside a cell for niggas and was [Am] never even thrown a kite.
[A] Rebelling against a God I hate, I blamed him for my loaded [C] life.
What made [G] it worse, I played with curses, even though I know it's [F] right.
I used to ask church folk why life's so hard, but I got no advice.
[E] Or they just relay a bunch of [Am] cliches that don't suffice.
Depressed and half psychotic, _ narcotics are my chosen vice.
[Em] Consumed with idols, suicidal by 18, I [F] tried more than twice.
Married to this selfish pride, I seen the devil throw the rice.
[E] And every day I dwell inside this heli [C]-tech, we grow the sky.
[A] I said the rain falls on us [C] _ all, send the good and the _ bad.
[F] _ _ Same thing that'll make you laugh [Am] today, well we know it'll make you sad.
And now I see, I gotta [C] walk by faith _ and not by _ [F] sight.
_ I don't understand your ways and [Am] all, Lord, but I know you're always right.
_ _ _ [A] _ I surrender, _
[Am] _ I _ [G] surrender, _ _
[C] _ [F] I _ surrender, _ _
_ _ [E] _ although it hurts sometimes.
_ [Am] So bitter and so broken, my soul soaking in misery.
[C] With no [G] hope for the future though, cause I'm so focused on [F] history.
Did one day someone cared enough to share just what you did for me?
I [E] could quickly see how differently you act from the Christians I'm [Am] witnessing.
You live this thing called love while all of us are just so [C] nitpicky.
You are [G] righteousness, you gave your life for us, [F] literally.
The thought that you're the one I hated sickens me.
It's a trip to me how [E] quickly we fall into iniquity.
Even though [Am] I acted wickedly, you still chose to sit with me.
I'm the worst one on [Em] the court, Lord, yet you still keep picking me.
It now [F] becomes so vividly clear that every test and every trial was predestined.
[E] And the outcome [Em] was your victim.
I [Am] say, _ yeah, the rain falls, yes, [C] on the good and the bad, Lord.
[F] _ Same thing that'll make us laugh one [Am] day is gonna make us sad.
And _ now I see by your [C] grace I gotta walk by faith and not by fire.
_ _ [F] I know I'll never _ understand your [Am] ways, Lord, but I know you're always right.
And I [A] surrender, _ _ _
[Am] _ I surrender, _ _ _ _ [F] I _ _ surrender. _
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