Em Em
[Verse 1]
My eyes are made of winter and these hands I hold are skin and bone
C D Em
Oh, oh, oh
Our bedsheets thrown, the meals gone cold
I know you, I know you of old
C D Em
Oh, oh, oh
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Am
Pray for me oh children pray for
Bm
what I’ve I’ve I’ve I’ve done
C Em
I’ll haunt the very wrinkles of your skin
Am
Pray for me,
Em
I’ll run until I begin to understand
C D
What holy men really mean
Em
when they speak of sin
[Chorus]
Em D G Am
Oh, oh oh, oh
C Bm
Pray for me cos I won’t pray for you
Em D G Am
Oh, oh oh, oh
C
Pray for me cos I won’t pray for
Bm Em
I won't, I won't pray for you
[Verse 2]
Em
If you knew all that I’d done
The words that shone are all but gone
C Cm Em
Oh, oh, oh
The hearts I’ve broken, the minds I've woken
Sweet nothings are screamed not spoken
C D Em
Oh, oh, oh
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Am
God made all man in his image
Bm
Honey I- I- I’m no man
C Em
I’m what’s left when children go to war
Am
Run from you, I’ll run until
Em
I begin to understand
C
What holy men really mean
D
when they speak of sand and sons and seams
Em
and symphonies and sweat and sex and sin
[Chorus]
Em D G Am
Oh, oh oh, oh
C Bm
Pray for me cos I won’t pray for you
Em D G Am
Oh, oh oh, oh
C
Pray for me cos I won’t pray for
Bm
I won't, I won't pray for
Em D G Am
Oh (oh oh oh) oh (oh oh oh)
C Bm
Pray for me cos I won’t pray for you
Em D G Am
Oh (oh oh oh) oh (oh oh oh)
C
Pray for me cos I won’t pray for
Bm
I won't, I won't pray for
I won't, I wont pray for
I won't, I won't pray for
Em
I won't, I won't pray for you
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Am
Pray for me oh children pray for
Bm
what I’ve I’ve I’ve I’ve undone
C Em
I cannot sleep when all you do is cry
Am Em
Pray for me, I’ll run until I begin to understand
C
What holy men really mean
D
when they speak of all that’s been
and all that won’t
And all you do and don’t
Am
And why you cannot sleep for sighing
Bm
Why womanhood is more than crying
C D
I’m stronger now than you have ever known
Em
The cracks you made I fill with mortar
Bm
A broken pot can still hold water
C
Symphonies and sweat and sex mean
D
nothing when you are obsessed
With sin and soil and strength and song
and all the words that came out wrong
Em
and him
[Chorus]
Em Bm G Am
Oh (oh oh oh) oh (oh oh oh)
C Bm
Pray for me cos I won’t pray for you
Em Bm G D
Oh (oh oh oh) oh (oh oh oh)
C
Pray for me cos I won’t pray for
Bm
I won't, I won't pray for
Em Bm G Am
Oh (oh oh oh) oh (oh oh oh)
C Bm
Pray for me cos I won’t pray for you
Em Bm G Am
Oh (oh oh oh) oh (oh oh oh)
C
Pray for me cos I won’t pray for
Bm
I won't, I won't pray for
Bm
I won't, I wont pray for
Bm
I won't, I won't pray for
Bm Em
I won't pray for
