C G
Take these shoes
Dm F
Click clacking down some dead end street
C G
Take these shoes
Em Am
And make them fit
C G
Take this shirt
Dm F
Polyester white trash made in nowhere
C G
Take this shirt
Em Am
And make it clean, clean
C G
Take this soul
Dm F
Stranded in some skin and bones
C G
Take this soul
Em Am
And make it sing
C G Am F
Yahweh, Yahweh
C G Am F
Always pain before a child is born
C G Am F
Yahweh, Yahweh
C G Am
Still I’m waiting for the dawn
C G
Take these hands
Dm F
Teach them what to carry
C G
Take these hands
Em Am
Don’t make a fist
C G
Take this mouth
Dm F
So quick to criticise
C G
Take this mouth
Em Am
Give it a kiss
C G Am F
Yahweh, Yahweh
C G Am F
Always pain before a child is born
C G Am F
Yahweh, Yahweh
C G Am
Still I’m waiting for the dawn
C G Am
Still waiting for the dawn
the sun is coming up
The sun is coming up on the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
C G Am F
Yahweh, Yahweh
C G Am F
Always pain before a child is born
C G Am F
Yahweh, tell me now
C G Am
Why the dark before the dawn?
C G
Take this city
Dm F
A city should be shining on a hill
C G
Take this city
Em Am
If it be your will
C G Dm F
What no man can own, no man can take
C G
Take this heart
C G
Take this heart
C G
Take this heart
Am
And make it break