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!]