The Silence Of God

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                 C                                  G
It's enough to drive a man crazy, it'll break a man's faith
                        Am                             C
It's enough to make him wonder, if he's ever been sane
                        F                               Am
When he's bleating for comfort from Thy staff and Thy rod
                        G                       C
And the Heaven's only answer is the silence of God

                     C                              G
It'll shake a man's timbers when he loses his heart
                Am                               C
When he has to remember what broke him apart
                    F                     Am
This yoke may be easy but this burden is not
                                G                     C
When the crying fields are frozen by the silence of God

        Am               Am/G                F          C
And if a man has got to listen to the voices of the mob
        Am               Am/G                F                C
Who are reeling in the throes of all the happiness they've got
               Am
When they tell you all their troubles
               F
Have been nailed up to that cross
        Dm             Em                 F
Then what about the times when even followers get lost?
              F
'Cause we all get lost sometimes

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

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