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"Gethsemane" - from "Jesus Christ, Superstar" by Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice

Am  Am/G    Am/F     Am/E
I on-ly want  to say

Dm     Dm/C  Dm/B     Dm/A
If there  is    a way

G        G7     C
Take this cup away from me
   
E                  Am                
For I don't want to taste it's poison

F                Am
Feel it burn me, I have changed

B7                E        E7  E
I'm not as sure as when we started

Then I was inspired
Now I'm sad and tired
Listen, surely I've exceeded
Expectations, tried for three years
Seems like thirty, could you ask as
E         E7        Am 
Much from any other man?

Am   G   F  E
But  if  I  die

Am           G                  F                 E   
See the saga through and do the things you ask of me

Am                G                F               E
Let them hate me, hit me, hurt me, nail me to your tree

Am7                               D7
I'd wanna know, I'd wanna know my God 
I'd wanna know, I'd wanna know my God 
I'd wanna see, I'd wanna see my God

Am  G  F      E
Why I  should die

Am              G              F           E
Would I be more noticed than I ever was before?

Am                    G             F          E
Would the things I've said and done matter anymore?

Am7                                   D7 
I'd have to know, I'd have to know my Lord (repeat)
I'd have to see, I'd have to see my Lord (repeat)
Bm7                      E7
If I die what will be my reward? (repeat)
Am7                                   D7
I'd have to know, I'd have to know my Lord (repeat)

Am   G   F   E         Am   G  F            E
Why           should I die?    Why should I die?

Am                     G                 F                E
Can you show me        now that I would  not be killed in vain?
Show me just a         little of your    omnipresent      brain
Show me there's a      reason for your   wanting me to    die
You're far too keen on where and how and not so hot on    why

Am G  F  E       Am    G   F             E     Am  G   F         E 
    Alright I'll die!      Just watch me die!          See how I die!

Then I was inspired
Now I'm sad and tired
After all I've tried for three years
Seems like ninety, why then am I
Scared to finish what I started
What you started, I didn't start it

God, thy will is hard
But you hold every card
I will drink your cup of poison
Nail me to your cross and break me
Bleed me, beat me, kill me take me 
E       E7              Dm       Am
Now, before I change my mind...