Unanswered Prayers

(D/*?, mfb Garth Brooks: by Brooks,Bastian,Alger) disclaimer

Verse 1
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Just the other night at a hometown football game
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my wife and I ran into my old high school  flame.
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And as I  introduced them the past came back to  me
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and I  couldn't help but think of the way things used to be

Verse 2
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She was the one that I  wanted for all times 
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and each night I spent praying that  God would make her  mine.
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And if He'd only grant me  this wish I'd wished back then
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I'd  never ask for anything  a-gain.

Chorus
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Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers.
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Remember when you're talking to the man upstairs
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that just because He doesn't answer doesn't mean He don't care
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'cause some of God's greatest gifts    [are unanswered prayers.]
(Last Time to Ending)
Verse 3
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She wasn't quite the angel that I remembered in my dreams
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and I could tell that time had changed me in her eyes, too it seemed.
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We tried to talk about the old day. It wasn't much we could re-call 
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I guess the Lord knows what'he's doin' after  all.

Bridge
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And as she walked away and I looked at my wife
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And then and there I thanked the good Lord for the gifts in my life
(to Chorus)
Ending 
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... are unanswered. 
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Some of God's greatest gifts are all too often unanswered,
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Some of God's greatest gifts       are unanswered prayers