C           F            C
Is it time for a speech or for silence
           C         F        C
Are you calling for peace or defiance
           Am       G/B        F/A
Is this darkening counsel or wisdom
       Am      G            C/G
Are we all perpetrators or victims?

[Verse 2]
            C       F          C
Is this childlike simple rote history
        C        F          C
Is it complex deciphering mystery
           Am       G/B         F/A
Is this blessing or ill gotten wealth
        Am         G      C/G
Am I speaking for God or myself?

[Chorus]
     G/B     Am          F/A       C/E
It’s a hard world for a second guess girl
     G/B      Am   F/A    C
With one hand and another
       G/B       Am          F         C
I try to take it in but it leaves me spinning
        Dm          G         C
Trying to love my sister and brother

[Verse 3]
            C        F         C
Is this confidence born of a calling
         C        F            C
Is this ego and pride before falling
          Am        G/B              F/A
Are we standing to fight for what’s right
         Am         G        C/G
Are we angry and hopelessly blind?

[Verse 4]
          C           F       C
Are we companions of Job or prophets of God
        C            F             C
Are we not of this world or just painfully odd
       Am           G/B            F/A
Is it time for free grace or tough love
      Am       G       C/G
Or a little of all the above?

[Chorus]
     G/B     Am          F/A       C/E
It’s a hard world for a second guess girl
     G/B      Am   F/A    C
With one hand and another
       G/B       Am          F         C
I try to take it in but it leaves me spinning
        Dm          G         C
Trying to love my sister and brother

[Bridge]
F/A          C         Dm         G
Sooner or later we’ll know more about it
F/A          C            Dm      G
Sooner or later we’ll understand why
          Dm           C/G
We’ll understand why

[Verse 5]
        C          F             C
Is it time for a speech or for silence
           C         F        C
Are you calling for peace or defiance
           Am       G/B        F/A
Is this darkening counsel or wisdom
       Am      G            C/G
Are we all perpetrators or victims?

[Final Chorus]
     G/B     Am          F/A       C/E
It’s a hard world for a second guess girl
     G/B     Am     F/A   C
With one hand and another
       G/B       Am           F         C
I try to take it in and it leaves me spinning
         Dm         G          C
Trying to love my sister and brother
       Dm   Am    F/A          F     C     G
It’s a hard hard world for a second guess girl
           Dm       G               C
Trying to love my sister, love my brother