Chords for How Many Times-Joe Nester @ Nester Nation Original

[Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
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How [G] many times [C] are you going to doubt yourself?
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How [D] many times [G] are you going to repeat the [C] same mistakes _ before you [Em] finally experience
[D] enough [C] pain _ that you want to make a [Em] change?
_ [G]
How many [C] times?
_ _ _ _ [Em]
How many times [D] you're going to tell yourself you've given [C] up?
How many times you're going to write it down and rip [Em] it up?
How many times have [G] you invested in luck?
[C] You find that penny facing heads down, well turn around and flip it [Em] up.
Don't you [D] believe in the fake, believe in your [C] faith.
Now watch how everything just seems to fall into place.
[Em] And you ain't even gotta try, [D] it's like you winning the race.
Cause [C] every time you place his name, he'll be receiving his grace.
[Em] Embrace.
Now keep me from the [D] wicked, [G] protect me from [C] the snares.
And help me spread this message to anybody who [Em] cares.
Cause I done wrestled with them [D] lions [Gm] and tigers [C] and bears.
I'm wearing the armor of God, intruders [Em] beware.
How many [D] times have you [G] prayed in the name [C] of?
How many times have you shown in the same [Em] love that he shows to [G] you?
How many [C] times?
How many times?
Oh!
[Em] _ How many [D] times have you prayed in the [C] name of?
How many times have [G] you shown in the [Em] same love that he shows [G] to you?
How many times?
How [C] many times?
_ _ [E] How many times you [D] going to lie to yourself?
[C]
How many times you been denying yourself?
_ [Em] How many [G] times?
How many [C] times?
How many times you looked inside of yourself?
[Em] And you're ashamed of what you see but [D] you don't [G] ask for no help
You'd [C] rather drown in misery and take that rum off [G] the shelf
[Em] You'd pour another shot and blame it [D] on the hands [Gm] you were dealt
[C] But you're forgetting about the pain that all your family felt
While [Em] you were running in them [D] streets like a slave for a bag [C] of dope
Your parents worried that their baby might not [Em] make it home
They lie awake [G] and they wait and they cry and bide a [C] thon
Praying that they don't get the call that their baby is [Em] gone
I know it hurts but [D] everything that [G] I'm speaking [C] is true
I only say it cause I know it, I used [G] to be [Em] you
But I done [D] made it and I'm grateful [G] I'm one of the [C] few
Now I'm heading back just to say that you can make it too
[Em] How many [D] times have you [G] prayed in the name [C] of..?
How many times have you [G] shone in the [Em] same love
that he shows to [G] you?
How many [C] times?
How many times?
How [G] many times?
[Em] How many [D] times have you prayed [G] in the name [C] of..?
How many times have [G] you shone in the [Em] same love
that he shows [G] to you?
How many times?
[C] How many times?
..how
[Em] many times?
_ [D] It doesn't matter [C] how many times you've failed,
_ [Em] it doesn't matter how [G] many times you [C] almost got it right.
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People aren't going [D] to keep [G] track or care about your [C] failures.
Neither should you.
_ [Em] It's more important that you learn from them, [C] that you grow from them, _ and that you
[Em] keep [A] pushing [D] forward.
Because at the end [C] of the day, it doesn't matter how many [Em] times you got it wrong.
_ [G] What truly [C] matters is how many times you get it right.
[Em] It doesn't matter how [D] many times you've been [C] beaten down.
It doesn't matter how many people believe in you [Em] now.
All that matters is you [G] believe in yourself.
[C] There's a reason that you're breathing and it's keeping you round.
And [Em] everything that you've been going [D] through is part of a plan.
[C] But I know it's hard to [Em] trust it and you can't understand.
Believe me, we crash and we burn.
[D] We live and we learn.
[C] If you could only see the blessings that we get in return.
You'd be [Em] like, I've [D] climbed through this storm [E] and this [C] struggle.
Struggled times when I know I'm in [Em] trouble.
I'll [D] rise, [G] I'll [C] rise, I'll rise through the ash and the [Em] rubble.
How many times [F#m] have you [C] prayed in the name of?
How many times have you shown in [Em] the same love that he [G] shows to you?
How many [C] times?
How many times?
How many [Em] times?
How many [D] times have you [G] prayed in the [C] name of?
How many [G] times have you shown in the same [Em] love that he shows [G] to you?
How many times?
How [C] many times?
How many?
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Never [C] give up on yourself.
_ _ [Em] Stop doubting yourself.
[G] _ _ [C] Because if you don't believe in yourself, nobody [Em] else will either.
[D] _ _ [C] As long as you have air in your lungs, [Em] you still have a chance to [C] get it right. _ _ _ _ _
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