Penitent Chords by Suzanne Vega

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_ _ _ Once I stood alone so proud, held myself above the [Ab] crowd, and now I'm low on the ground.
[Bb] _ From here I look around to see what avenues belong to me, I can't tell what I've found.
_ _ Now what would [Db] you have me [Fm] do?
I ask [Bb] you _ [Fm] please.
_ [Bbm] I wait [Fm] to hear the _ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
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mutter and the matador, the misty trip here before [Ab] like me to stare [Bb] you down.
_ _ You appear without a face, disappear but leave your [Fm] trace, I feel your [Fm] unseen [Bb] crown. _ _ _
Now what [Gb] would you have me [Bbm] do?
I ask [C] you [Gb] please.
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I wait [Fm] to hear _ [Db] your voice, _ [Gb] the word _ [Ab] you say.
_ [Fm] I wait _ [Db] to see your sign, [Gb] what I _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [Bb] obey. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] I _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ look for you in Heathermore, the desert and the [Fm] ocean floor, how [Ab] low does one [Bb] park go?
_ _ _ Looking for your fingerprints, I find them [Fm] coincidence and [Ab] make my faith to [Fm] grow.
_ _ [Bb] Forgive me all my blindnesses, my weakness and [Fm] unkindnesses, as [Ab] yet unbended [Bb] and still.
_ _ _ Struggling so hard to see my list against eternity [Fm] and [Ab] will you break my [Bb] will?
_ _ _ Now what would [Gb] you have me do?
[Bbm] _ I ask [Gb] you please.
_ _ [Bbm] _ I wait [Fm] to hear your [Db] voice, _ [Gb] the word _ [Ab] you say.
_ [Fm] I wait _ [Db] to see your sign, [Gb] what I _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] obey.
_ _ [Bbm] _ Now what would [Gb] you have me [Bbm] do?
I ask [Gb] you _ please.
[Bbm] _ I wait to [Fm]
hear _ [Db] your voice, _ [Gb] the word you [Ab] say.
_ [Fm] I wait _ [Db] to see your sign, [Gb] what I _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] obey.
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_ [Ab] _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _
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