xArtist: Phillips, Craig and Dean
Song: Mercy Came Running
Capo: 4
Intro: G
Verse 1:
C G C G C
Once there was a holy place. Evidence of God’s embrace.
G C D C
I can almost see mercy’s face, pressed against the veil.
G C G C
Looking down with longing eyes, mercy must have realized.
G C D
Once His blood was sacrificed freedom would prevail.
C G
And as the sky grew dark, and the earth began to shake.
Bm Am C D
With justice no longer in the way!
Chorus:
G D
Mercy Came a runnin' like a pris’ner set free.
Em C D
Past all my failures, to the point of my need.
C G D
When the sin that I carried, was all I could see.
C
And when I could not reach mercy,
Am D G D
Mercy came a runnin’ to me.
C G C G C
Once there was a broken heart. Way to human from the start.
G C D C
All the years left it torn apart, hopeless and afraid.
G C G C
Walls I never meant to build, left this pris’ner unfulfilled
G C D
Freedom called but even still, it seemed so far away.
C G
I was bound by the chains, from the wages of my sin!
Bm Am C D
Just when I felt like givin’ in!
Chorus:
G D
Mercy Came a runnin' like a pris’ner set free.
Em C D
Past all my failures, to the point of my need.
C G D
When the sin that I carried, was all I could see.
C
And when I could not reach mercy,
Am D G
Mercy came a runnin’ to me.
Bridge:
Bb G
Sometimes I still feel so far!
Bb
So far from where I really should be.
D
He gently calls to my heart! Just to remind me!
Chord Change:
Chorus:
A E
Mercy came a runnin’, like a pris’ner set free.
F#m E
Past all my failures, to the point of my need.
A E
When the sin that I carried, was all I could see.
F#m E A
And when I could not reach mercy, mercy came a runnin’ to me.
A E
Mercy came a runnin’, like a pris’ner set free.
F#m E
I Past all my failures, to the point of my need.
A E
When the sin that I carried, was all I could see.
F#m E A
And when I could not reach mercy, mercy came a runnin’ to me.
Chorus Fade:
A E
Mercy came a runnin’, like a pris’ner set free.
F#m E
Past all my failures, to the point of my need.
A E
When the sin that I carried, was all I could see.
F#m
And when I could not reach mercy
