Pray For Forgiveness Chords
by Alicia Keys
Pray For Forgiveness by Alicia Keys is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, Am9, C, Am7, Dm7 and Dm9. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
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.