THE SILENCE OF GOD
capo 5
Intro:  A A D A

                              A                       C#m
It's enough to drive a man crazy; it'll break a man's faith
                          F#m               E/G#  A
It's enough to make him wonder if he's ever been sane
                            D                         F#m
When he's bleating for comfort from Thy staff and Thy rod
                         E                       A
And the heaven's only answer is the silence of God
                      A                        C#m
It'll shake a man's timbers when he loses his heart
                  F#m              E/G#   A
When he has to remember what broke him apart
                   D                      F#m
This yoke may be easy, but this burden is not
                              E                      A    E/G#
When the crying fields are frozen by the silence of God

         F#m             C#m           D            A    E/G#
And if a man has got to listen to the voices of the mob
         F#m            C#m               D                A    E/G#
Who are reeling in the throes of all the happiness they've got
          F#m                 C#m                D                 A
When they tell you all their troubles have been nailed up to that cross
      Bm             A/C#            D
Then what about the times when even followers get lost?

'Cause we all get lost sometimes...



                  A                      C#m
There's a statue of Jesus on a monastery knoll
                   D2                    A
In the hills of Kentucky, all quiet and cold
                          A                     C#m
And He's kneeling in the garden, as silent as a Stone
                     D2                            E
All His friends are sleeping and He's weeping all alone

                   D                 F#m
And the man of all sorrows, he never forgot
                 E                            A
What sorrow is carried by the hearts that he bought
                        D                          F#m
So when the questions dissolve into the silence of God
                E                             A
The aching may remain, but the breaking does not
                D                            F#m
The aching may remain, but the breaking does not
                       E                      A
In the holy, lonesome echo of the silence of God

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