"Final Straw"



Intro Dm



Dm                        C               Dm

As I raise my head to broadcast my objection

                          C                 Dm

As your latest triumph draws the final straw

                     C           Dm

Who died and lifted you up to perfection?

                       C                Dm

And what silenced me is written into law.



C                                        Dm

I can't believe where circumstance has thrown me

      C              Dm

And I turn my head away

      C                             Dm

If I look I'm not sure that I could face you.

      Am         C           Dm

Not again. not today. not today.



Dm                   C             Dm  

If hatred makes a play on me tomorrow

                              C              Dm 

And forgiveness takes a back seat to revenge

                               C               Dm

There's a hurt down deep that has not been corrected.

                                 C               Dm

There's a voice in me that says you will not win. 



   C                  Dm

And if I ignore the voice inside,

  C                       Dm

Raise a half glass to my home.

 C                     Dm

But it's there that I am most afraid,

            Am           C               Dm

And forgetting doesn't hold. it doesn't hold.



F

Now I don't believe and I never did

      Dm

That two wrongs make a right.

         F

If the world were filled with the likes of you

         Dm                                    F

Then I'm putting up a fight. I'm putting up a fight.

              Dm               Am            C             Dm

Putting up a fight. make it right. make it right. 



      Dm            C                  Dm

Now love cannot be called into question.

                    C                Dm

Forgiveness is the only hope I hold.

                    C                    Dm

And love- love will be my strongest weapon.

                     C          Dm

I do believe that I am not alone.



          C                    Dm

For this fear will not destroy me.

          C                   Dm

And the tears that have been shed

       C                  Dm

It's knowing now where I am weakest

         Am          C            Dm

And the voice in my head. in my head.



        C                  Dm

Then I raise my voice up higher

        C               Dm

And I look you in the eye

       C                    Dm

And I offer love with one condition.

       Am                  C

With conviction, tell me why.

         Dm

Tell me why.

         Am

Tell me why.

               C

Look me in the eye. 

          Dm

Tell me why.