I Only Want To Say (Gethsemane)

Gm                          Eb
Will no-one stay awake with me?
Bb
Peter?  John?  James?
Gm                         Eb
Will none of you wait with me?
Bb
Peter?  John?  James?

Bbm  Bbm/Ab       Bbm/Gb  Bbm/F
  I   only want to say
Ebm      Ebm/Db  Ebm/C  Ebm/Bb
If there is a    way
Ab        Absus  Ab  Dbsus  Db
Take this cup    a - way   from me
    F       F+   F  Bbmsus  Bbm           Gb
For I don´t want to taste  its poison -- feel it burn me
Bbm/F           C7                 F    F+  F7   F
I have changed, I´m not as sure as when we started
Bbm    Bbm/Ab   Bbm/Gb  Bbm/F
Then I was    inspired
Ebm     Ebm/Db     Ebm/C  Ebm/Bb
Now I´m sad    and tired
Ab      Absus  Ab  Dbsus  Db       F   F+  F
Listen, sure - ly I´ve  exceeded expectations
Bbmsus  Bbm                Gb
Tried  for three years -- seems like thirty
Bbm/F            F                   Bbm
Could you ask as much from any other man?

Bbm  Ab  Gb  F
But if I  die
Bbm          Ab                 Gb                F
See the saga through and do the things you ask of me
Bbm               Ab               Gb               F
Let them hate me, hit me, hurt me, nail me to their tree
Bbm                              Eb7
I´d wanna know I´d wanna know my God
Bbm                            Eb7
I´d wanna see I´d wanna see my God
Bbm  Ab  Gb     F
Why I  should die

Bbm             Ab             Gb       F
Would I be more noticed than I ever was before?
Bbm                   Ab            Gb         F
Would the things I´ve said and done matter any more?
Bbm                                  Eb7
I´d have to know I´d have to know my Lord
Bbm                                Eb7
I´d have to see I´d have to see my Lord

Cm                        F7
If I die what would be my reward?
Cm                        F7
If I die what would be my reward?
Cm                                   F
I´d have to know I´d have to know my Lord
Cm                                   F
I´d have to know I´d have to know my Lord

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

( Cm  Bb  Ab  G )

Alright I´ll die!  Just watch me die
See how I die!  See how I die

( Cm  Bbsus  Ab  G )

Cm     Cm/Bb   Cm/Ab   Cm/G  Fm      Fm/Eb     Fm/D  Fm/C
Then I was   inspired,       now I´m sad   and tired
Bb    Bbsus      Ebsus     Eb          G          G+  G
After all,  I´ve tried for three years seems like ninety
Cm            Ab               Cm/G
Why then am I scared to finish what I started
D7       D7-9       G
What you started -- I didn´t start it
Cm       Cm/Bb    Cm/Ab  Cm/G      Fm       Fm/Eb  Fm/Eb  Fm/D  Fm7/C
God, thy will  is hard        but you hold every  card
Bb     Bbsus      Ebsus  Eb
I will drink your cup of poison
G       G+  G    Cm                  Ab
Nail me to your cross and break me, bleed me, beat me
Cm/G               G7    G+   G7  G7sus  G7  Ab    Fm  G7sus  Cm
Kill me -- take me now before I  change my mind