A Prayer Of My Own chords by Nick Mulvey

🎸 Chorus:
Am  G  Am  G

Em               D
  (Somehow, my love)
Em               D
  (Somehow, my love)




🎸 Verse 1:
                          Am
Keep me an open heart in Hell
                                G
Give me the courage to?feel it all

The beauty of the fall
                    Am
When I want to run away
                     G
When I wish to run away
                   Am  G
Oh
Lord, help me stay
Am
I look around
I look away

Hey, hey
                   G
It's too much to take

I fool my heart each day
                      Am
I fool my heart each time I say
                            G
That it don't know how to break
                         Am
And that I'm better off this way
                   G
C'mon
Lord, help me stay

🎸 Chorus:
Em               D
  (Somehow, my love)
Em               D
  (Somehow, my love)

🎸 Verse 2:
                       Em
Can we bear the unbearable?
                       D
How to bear the unbearable?
Em                        D
  How to bear the unbearable?
Am
Finding the color of my rage

Giving that rage a place
                     G
Oh, the beast has a face

With a grimace and such grace
                       Am
With an open heart in Hell

Well, well
                    G
Courage to feel it all

Hold us, keep us still
                     Am
When we want to run away
                       G
C'mon
Lord, help us stay

🎸 Interlude:
Am  G


🎸 Verse 3:
                   Em
And I do it for my own
                          G7
My little boy, my little girl
                       C
And we do it for our home (Hey, hey)
                     Am
If we do it for the world
                         Em
So let it out and let it in
                           G7
Get to know that beast within
                             C
Give him love and bring him in
              Am
No, not an enemy, but a friend
                        Em
And in the fury of the fire
                  G7
In that timeless fire
             C
I find my ancient friend
                             Am
Oh oh, come to help me once again, yeah
🎸 Outro:
    Em
Oh oh, ooh
 G7
Yeah
     C        Am  G
Ooh ooh, yeah
Am   D  G