Dear God

      D                               C
Dear God, I hate to be a bother but I gotta say
                                    G
This world is getting crazier with every day
                                F               C
I hope You hear me out now as I stop and pray
      D                                     C
Dear God, people take Your words and try to twist 'em round
                                       G
I know you can't be happy with what's going down
                                    F
Searching for some answers but they can't be found
        C                  D    C    G
Can You help me out, Dear God
D    C    G
[Ohh...]
      D                                   C
Dear God, just the other night I heard somebody say,
                                   G
"What's the use believin' in You anyway?"
                                        F
I guess it was just heartache talking through the pain
        C                 D
It's a cryin' shame, Dear God
                                   C
I know You're disappointed in the things we've done
                                           G
Can't they see the truth that they're all running from
                                     F
Tryin' to preach Your message with a loaded gun
          C                 D    C    G
What they thinkin' of? Dear God
 C   D   C   G   C
[Ohhh...  Oooo]
F            C                     G
Everybody's searchin' for an easy solution, yeah
          Am               F                   C
they can't see beyond the selfish world they're livin' in
F                     C                    G
Your words of love get lost in all the confusion, yes they do
       D            C                     G
But I still believe, someday You're gonna speak to me
      D
Dear God
                                   C
I know You've got a million other calls to take
                                         G
You're dealin' with a lot of things that just won't wait
                                     F           C
But there is one request that I just gotta make
      D
Dear God
                                    C
Won't You send a sign down just to ease my doubt
                                       G
I'm tryin' to hear You but the silence is so loud
                              F             
I think I see a rainbow from behind the clouds
       C                  D
And I hear You now, Dear God

(end on D)

From: * (Mark J. Schnitzius)

By "Mark J. Schnitzius" 
with help from: Bill Gallagher 


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From 'Skylarking'



Fmaj7   A7sus4/D     D2
  8      0 or 0      0
 10      3    3      3
  9      0    0      2
 10      0    2      0

A verse consists of three of the Am riff:

    Am       Am       Am       Am
----0--------0--------0--------0--
----1--------1--------1--------1--
----2--------2--------2--------2--
----2--------2--------2--------2--
-0--0--0-----0--0-----0--0-----0--
----------1--------3--------2-----
          ^Thumb   ^Pinky   ^Thumb

Then two the C riff:

     C       C/Ab  C/D     C/F#
-----0--------0-----0--------0--
-----1--------1-----1--------1--
-----0--------0-----0--------0--
-----2--------2--0--0--0-----0--
--3--3--3-----3-----------------
-----------4--------------2-----
           ^Pinky         ^Thumb

Then the falling D riff:

     D        D        Bb       E7
-----2--------2--------1--------0--
-----3--------3--------3--------3--
-----2--------2--------3--------1--
--0--0--0-----0--0-----3--0--2--2--
-----------3--------1--1-----------
-----------------------------------

with some changes as noted in the score below.

---- ---
I pray you can make it better down here
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
But all the people that you made in your image
See them starving on their feet
'Cause they don't get enough to eat
>From God,
I can't believe in you

I feel that I should be heard loud and clear
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
And all the people that you made in your image
See them fighting in the street
'Cause they can't make opinions meet
About God,
                   C   D
I can't believe in you

 Fmaj7                         C      G     C
Did you make disease, and the diamond blue?
Fmaj7                      D2 (or A7sus4/D)
Did you make mankind after we made you?
A/C#  C  C/E  E7
Am riff
And the devil, too?
                   C  D  (2nd time thru)

  bypass Am thing and go to C riff

Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
And us crazy humans wrote it you should take a look
And all the people that you made in your image
Still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain't, and so do you, dear God
I can't believe in
I don't believe in
  Am/F#
I won't believe in heaven and hell
  Bb
No saints, no sinners, no devil as well
  Dm
No pearly gates, no thorny crown
  Bb
You're always letting us humans down
  G
The wars you bring, the babes you drown
  Bb
Those lost at sea and never found
  Dm
And it's the same the whole world 'round
  Bb
The hurt I see helps to compound
  G
That Father, Son and Holy Ghost
  Bb
Is just somebody's unholy hoax
  Dm
And if you're up there you'd perceive
  Bb
That my heart's here upon my sleeve
  G                                     A
If there's one thing I don't believe in
     D2/  D  Bb  C  F  G  E