When I Forgive You

[Intro]
C Am7 F Fsus2 C Am7
F Fsus2

[Verse 1]
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 My grandma grew up in the 'thirties
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She's a Catholic through and through I would have un
derstood
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If she had been abrasive and confused She could have turned
away
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And simply washed her hands     of it
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 Instead she's bragging to her friends
F
 How great her grandson is

[Interlude]
C Am7 F Fsus2 C
              Sasha,
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this is Grandma I love you

[Verse 2]
C               Am7
 It makes me wonder
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Would it all change if we just sat  down to speak? I'm not
      Am7
fed up
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with you for fearing something that you've     never
    C                Am7
seen When people pain
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ted you a picture of who I am supposedly It's not surpri
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sing that you're trying to not get too close to me

[Chorus]
C
 All your violence
Am7
   All your venom
Dm                    G
  Won't come close to getting rid of me
C
 And at the pearly gates
Am7
   All those statements you made
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  Will suddenly be things you didn't really mean
F                 G             C      G/B   Am7
 I find it strange to hold such hatred for a stranger
F                      G            C       G/B
 You'll find it strange when I hold kindness   to your
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anger
F          G
 I find it strange,
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this shape you mold me into
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 And you'll find it strange when I forgive you

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
C           Am7            F                      Fsus2
 My grandma grew up in a Catholic school And never
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misses Mass I wouldn't blame
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her if at her age It was all too
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much to grasp And she don't know
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all of the proper terminology   and words
C            Am7
 But at eightythree,
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her love for me is what made her wanna learn

[Verse 4]
C                     Am7         F
 'Cause I'm not an act   of revolution
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That you're watching  on the news I bet you'd like
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me if we talked I bet you wouldn't
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have a clue And when the swords
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are to the side
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When the army   finally falls You'll see we're just
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two human beings
                        Am7 G
Not too different after all

[Chorus]
C
 All your violence
Am7
   All your venom
Dm                    G
  Won't come close to getting rid of me
C
 And at the pearly gates
Am7
   All those statements you made
Dm                            G
  Will suddenly be things you didn't really mean
F                 G             C      G/B   Am7
 I find it strange to hold such hatred for a stranger
F                      G            C       G/B
 You'll find it strange when I hold kindness   to your
  Am7
anger
F          G
 I find it strange,
     C     G/B      Am7
this shape you mold me into
F                   G                 C       Am7
 And you'll find it strange when I forgive you

[Outro]
F Fsus2 C       Am7
  When I forgive   you
F Fsus2 C