You Help Me to Believe

Words and music copyright by Howard Ashby Kranz

C G

1. You help me to believe, every time you laugh so quickly

A F

Every time you move so lightly, like the glint of a running river

C G

Every time your sad eyes trick me, and your finger makes me shiver

F C

When you catch me by the sleeve, you help me to believe.

C G

2. And you help me to believe, when you listen to my childhood

A F

And you see through my pretenses, and you giggle at my ego

C G

And your sense of me is so good when you help me cheat at tarot

F C

Read my hand and read my dream, and help me to believe.

G F C

Chorus 1: And you help me to believe when our voices meet in song,

G F C

And the harmony of laughter and of vision seems so strong,

G D

And the saddest songs feel so good, and the harmonies we weave

F C D G

Are enough to keep me going, and they help me to believe.

Instrumental Break

G F C

Chorus 2: And you help me to believe, in the early a.m. drought,

G F C

When there’s nothing but the darkness and myself to think about.

G D

And when sleepless nights press on me and the dawn brings no reprieve

F C D G

Then the thought of you is something, and it helps me to believe.

C G

3. And you help me to believe, when we sit in rain and lightning

A F

And we count the thunder’s distance, and your hair drips down like seaweed

C G

When the daily grind is frightening I can keep the fire in me

F C

With the part of you you leave, when you help me to believe.

G F C

Tag: O, you help me to believe.