I'm Listening

	  		
Intro G Em 

verse 1 
    Em 
Why didn't anyone believe 
               D        C 
A single word when you said it was 
G               D           C 
  It was your father's friend 
           Em 
Yeah, only fourteen, life goes on 
                        D            C 
Who knows, you prob'ly brought this on yourself 
G            D          C 
It's better not to tell 

G               Em         D               G 
Mother, mother, how many tears have you cried? 
                 Em       D     C            D 
Mother, I will listen to you tonight to the truth 
G                Em            D          G 
Mother, how many years before you could breathe? 
                 Em         D       C 
Mother, I won't turn away when you speak 
        D    Em          D      Em 
I'm listening, I'm listening 


verse 2 
 Em 
To a daughter now it happens too 
 G                   D      C 
Freshman year, he's waiting in your bed 
G          D        C 
Suppose to be a friend 
Em 
You tried to forget the way you felt 
                     D       C 
You fought, but he forced himself on you 
G            D            C 
He left you black and blue 

G                Em      D          G 
Sister, why did nobody trust your cries? 
                Em        D     C              D 
Sister, I will listen to you tonight to the truth 
G                Em          D       G 
Sister, you are braver than you believed 
                 Em         D          C 
Together we will find a way to healing 
        D    Em          D      Em 
I'm listening, I'm listening 


Bridge 
Em                           D 
And brother, where could you go? 
                    C 
Honestly, we don't know what to do 
        Am 
When a teacher takes what he took from you 
Em                            G 
And brother, where could you run? 
                         C 
Shame turned you silent and made a prison 
Am 
Could you learn to speak again 
 C                         Am 
If we were only listening? 

G                  Em         D        G 
Brother, there is freedom for you to cry 
                Em        D     C              D 
Brother, I will listen to you tonight to the truth 
G                Em      D          G 
Brother, I pray you can begin to breathe 
G                    Em      D          C 
Brother, please don't, don't be afraid to speak 
        D    Em          D    Am 
I'm listening, I'm listening, 
         G    C           D 
I'm listening, I'm listening 

I'm listening