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Pray For Forgiveness

Alicia Keys

PopMedium for beginners4 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

F
C×
Am7×
Dm7Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro:  F Am9 C C (2x) 
 
Verse 1: 
 
F                    Am7      Dm7 
       Beautiful garden, where have you gone? 
 
F                     Am7      Dm7 
       My self-delusions are leaving me in a storm 
 
F                     Am7           Dm7 
       Taken for granted, all the goodness that I found 
  
F                     Am7        Dm7 
      Somewhere I lost all the control, came crashing down 
 
 
 
 
 
                   F                       Dm7 
And I pray for forgiveness, look for the answers 
 
            C 
'Cause it's hard for me to pretend 
 
           F                    Dm7 
Look to my mother, call to the captain 
 
          C 
Can't you see, this state that I'm in? 
 
                 F            Dm7 
And no one would know this, nobody noticed 
 
            C 
'Cause it's me, where it begins 
 
 
Verse 2: 
 
F                     Am7                                Dm7 
       Beautiful morning, please don't wake me from my sleep 
 
F                             Am7      Dm7 
      'Cause I need some comfort to regain my sanity 
 
F                                                       Am7                    Dm7 
      And I don't want to feel this crazy, I don't want to feel discarded 
 
                                                                                      Am9 
Shattered in a million pieces, I'm so broken-hearted 
 
                                Am7                          Dm7 
Nowhere left to run, nowhere left to go so 
 
 
 
 
                  F                         Dm7 
And I pray for forgiveness, look for the answers 
   
            C 
'Cause it's hard for me to pretend 
 
           F                     Dm7 
Look to my mother, call to the captain 
 
          C 
Can't you see, this state that I'm in? 
 
                 F            Dm7 
And no one would know this, nobody noticed 
 
            C 
'Cause it's me, where it begins 
 
And I pray for forgiveness within 
 
 
 
Bridge: 
 
 
Dm9                Am7                               C                  Dm9 
       I swear that every day I feel like my mind is haunting me 
 
           Am7                         C                     Dm9 
I think of every little stupid mistake that has been made 
 
          Am7                                C   Dm9 
This time I don't have the strength to gather myself 
 
                       Am7 
I'm falling to pieces 
 
 
 
 
                  F                        Dm7 
And I pray for forgiveness, look for the answers 
 
            C 
'Cause it's hard for me to pretend 
 
           F                     Dm7 
Look to my mother, call to the captain 
 
          C 
Can't you see, this state that I'm in? 
 
 
                       F       Dm7  
I pray for forgiveness,  
 
                     C 
looking for justice 
 
              F       Dm7 
Searching for answers, 
 
                   C 
call to my mother 
 
 
            F       Dm7 
Pray for forgiveness,  
 
                      C 
breaking the silence 
 
       F                        Dm7 
Nobody knows this, nobody noticed 
 
          C 
That it's me, where it begins. 
          
 

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Chord set

F · C · Am7 · Dm7

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.