Im 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





[Chorus]

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





[Chorus]

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?





[Chorus]

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