Chords for LIFE Today: Phillips Craig and Dean "Mercy Came Running"

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Once there [B] was a holy place, _ the evidence of God's embrace.
[C#m] _ And I can almost [B] see mercy's face,
pressed against the bed.
_ [E] Yeah. _ _ _
Looking [B] down with longing [E] eyes, _ mercy must have [B] _ realized
[C#m] _ that once his [B] blood was _ sacrificed, freedom would prevail.
Yeah.
[E] _ [C#m] And as the sky grew dark, [B] and the earth began to shake,
with justice [F#] no longer in the [C#m] way, _ _ _
mercy came [B] a-running like a prisoner [F#] set free.
I passed all [B] my failures [E] to the point of [F#] my knee,
when the sin that [B] I carried was all I [F#] could see. _
[E] And when I could not reach mercy, [C#m] mercy came [F#] a-running [B] to _ me. _ _ _
_ [E] _ And once there [F#] was a broken heart, [E] _ a [B] way to human from the star.
_ [C#m] _ And all the years [B] left it torn apart, [E] ghost and afraid.
[B] _ _ [E] _
_ _ A walls I [B] never meant to _ [E] build, it left this [B] prisoner unfulfilled.
_ [C#m] _ See freedom [F#] call, but even still, [B] it seems so far away.
Yeah.
[E] _
[C#m] I was bound by the chains [B] from the wages of my sin.
[F#] And just when I felt [E] like [C#m] giving in,
_ mercy came a-running like a prisoner [F#] set free.
I passed all [D#m] my failures [E] to the point of [F#] my knee,
when the sin that I [B] carried was all I [G#] could [F#] see.
[E] And when I could not reach [C#m] mercy, mercy came [F#] a-running [B] to me. _
_ [G] And sometimes I still feel [F#] so [B] far,
so [F#] far from where it should [G] be,
but each [Em] enemy calls to [F#] my heart.
Just a remnant. _
Mercy came [C#] a-running like a prisoner [G#] set free.
I passed all [C#] my failures [F#] to the point of [G#] my knee,
when the sin that I [C#] carried was all I could see. _
[F#] And when I could not reach [D#m] mercy, mercy came [G#] a-running [C#] to me.
Like a prisoner [G#] set free.
I passed all [C#] my failures [F#] to the point of [G#] my knee,
when the sin that [C#] I carried was all I [G#] could see.
[F#] And when I could not reach mercy, [D#m] mercy came [G#] a-running [C#] to me. _ _ _ _
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