Standard (EADGBE)

Verse

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Billie Holiday on the radio

My sluggish heart is beating seven beats too slow

Another sad song and another shot of blue

Cold and unconcerned are anything but new

Pre-chorus

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He said "Love endures all things"

And it hurts to think He's right

If I mark the span of failure

Is his burden just as light?

Chorus

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I am, Spartan

Close my heart so tight

Jesus, Save me

from myself tonight

Limping through the world

There's a knowing look or two

Is it just the cripples here

who understand the truth?

Why is love so painful

Why do we always lose?

paving pathways for the lost

the bitter, and recluse?

Pre-chorus

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He said "Love endures all things"

and it hurts to think it's true

did it nail Him to a cross

did it crucify Him too?

[Back to Chorus, instead of ending on Em just go straight from the G to the D for the bridge]

The angels are singing over the plains

the shepherds are quaking, echoing refrains

And all of our slogans designed to take away the pain

meant nothing to the Son of God that night in Bethlehem.

[Back to chorus, end on Dm, then final chord of Am to wrap it up!]