Silent Prayer Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 Chords E, E7, Em, A, A7, G5

 Intro E

Verse

E E7 G5

Conform to your convictions

E E7 G5

Or be destined to receive

Em G5 Em

Anti-Messiah’s with the cruelest of intentions

G5 Em E7

And a dozen dirty tricks up their sleeve

Pre-chorus

A

You say you can’t remember how much time

A7

You spent forsaking his name to try to save your own

E E7 G5

So there will be no sense in penitence

E E7

Once you’re cast into the great unknown

Chorus

G5 A

Rolling over in your bed just to kiss the serpents head

G5

Seven lonely virgins on a dead man’s thrown

A E

Silent prayers carved in stone

Solo

A, E, E7, G5, A, G5, A)

Verse

E E7 G5

What reward awaits the living

E E7 G5

If death conceals its trace

Em G5 Em

How can we climb the waters if we’ve never swam the mountains

G5 Em E7

Or explored the breath of inner space

A

You say you can’t recall a better time you’ve had

A7

Beneath the penetrating tide

E E7 G5

So you find another stage to protest

E E7

All the demons that you’ve let inside

Chorus

G5 A

Rolling over in your bed just to kiss the serpents head

G5

Seven lonely virgins on a dead man’s thrown

A E

Silent prayers carved in stone

Verse

E E7 G5

Ignore those apparitions

E E7 G5

Just speculate instead

Em G5 Em

If day turns in tonight without the promise of tomorrow

G5How the hEmell are you to move aheadE7

A

(Maybe you should spend) less time trying

A7

To forsake his name to try to save your own

E E7 G5

Just trade in your two cents for penitence

 Before you’reE cast into the great unknE7own G7

Chorus

G5 A

Rolling over in your bed just to kiss the serpents head

G5

Seven lonely virgins on a dead man’s thrown

A E

Silent prayers carved in stone

G5 A

Rolling over in your bed just to kiss the serpents head

G5

Seven lonely virgins on a dead man’s thrown

A E

Silent prayers carved in stone

Outro