Standard (EADGBE)

Fear will take the Best of us,

 Then come back for the rest of us,

 Its rabid hunger never satisfied.

 It's closer than a brother

 And more jealous than a lover,

 Who holds you while it swallows you alive.

 Let down your gu-ard,

 And it will steal your he-art.

There's no thief like fear, no,

There's no thief like fear, no,

Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh

 I've tried to blame bureaucracy

 The weak-knees of hypocrisy

 And the cruel and shifting winds of circumstance

 But I know insecurity

 Is the worst of my own enemies

 He sings his lonely song and I will dance

 As he robs me bl-ind

 right before my ey-es

There's no thief like fear, no,

There's no thief like fear, no,

Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh

 Set me free, set me free

 Oh my God set me free

 From the chains holding me

 Oh my God set me free.

There's no thief like fear, no,

There's no thief like fear, no,

There's no thief like fear, no,

There's no thief like fear, no,

Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh

Oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh

 I am free, I am free

 Oh my God has rescued me

 From these chains I am released

 For my God has set me free

 I am free, I am free

 Oh my God has rescued me

 From these chains I am released

 For my God has set me free.