Standard (EADGBE)

Fear will take the Best of us,

Then come back for the rest of us,

Its rabid hunger never satisfied.

It's closer than a brother

And more jealous than a lover,

Who holds you while it swallows you alive.

Let down your gu-ard,

And it will steal your he-art.

There's no thief like fear, no,

There's no thief like fear, no,

Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh

I've tried to blame bureaucracy

The weak-knees of hypocrisy

And the cruel and shifting winds of circumstance

But I know insecurity

Is the worst of my own enemies

He sings his lonely song and I will dance

As he robs me bl-ind

right before my ey-es

There's no thief like fear, no,

There's no thief like fear, no,

Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh

Set me free, set me free

Oh my God set me free

From the chains holding me

Oh my God set me free.

There's no thief like fear, no,

There's no thief like fear, no,

There's no thief like fear, no,

There's no thief like fear, no,

Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh

Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh

I am free, I am free

Oh my God has rescued me

From these chains I am released

For my God has set me free

I am free, I am free

Oh my God has rescued me

From these chains I am released

For my God has set me free.