Slaid Cleaves - Sinner's Prayer guitar chord

Sinner's Prayer

By Slaid Cleaves

CD – Wishbones 2004

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

6/11/04

Capo 1

Bm

I'm not living like I should

Bm

I want to be a better man

Bm

A sinner's prayer upon my lips

Bm

A broken promise in my hand

E

I know that there will come a day

Bm

A heavy price I'll have to pay

E

I keep pretending to be good

F# Bm

But I'm not living like I should

I'm not living like I should

I've let the mystery slip away

The night goes by in dreamless sleep

I'm chasing foolish things all day

I walk this town just like a ghost

I don't know what I miss the most

I'd believe in something if I could

I'm not living like I should

Solo

When people see me on the street

They think they see an honest man

They don't know what lies beneath

But some of them would understand

They know the soul and what it hides

You sometimes see it in their eyes

A guilty man where a child once stood

I'm not living like I should

I'm not living like I should

The wolves howl, the robin sings

The world keeps spinning round and round

I wait for mercy's angel wings

Another day another year

Death keeps whispering in my ear

I say a prayer I knock on wood

I'm not living like I should

I'm not living like I should

I want to be a better man

A sinner's prayer upon my lips

A broken promise in my hands

A squandered gift, a wasted day

Time chases life away

I just wanted to be good

But I'm not living like I should