Chords for Matt Maher with Kristian Stanfill - Lord, I Need You

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_ _ Welcome to the new song cafe at worshiptogether.com.
Today we're here [G#m] with Christian Stanfill and Matt Marr listening [B] to their song, Lord [E] I Need You.
So sit back and [B] enjoy this new song cafe.
_ Christian and Matt, great to have you guys.
Hello Jimmy.
Hey.
Good to see you.
Thanks for having us.
[N] Yeah man.
We are listening to, man, a fantastic song today called Lord I Need You that you guys worked on.
_ _ I don't know that you guys have ever co-written together.
No.
This is the first time.
This is the first _ experience with the Matt Marr songwriting machine.
_ _ Well it turned out pretty well. _
Talk about how you guys ended up together and who else got involved with the song.
We were working on songs for Passion 2011 and Matt was in town to kind of partner with
our whole team.
So I think that day we were all writing together.
It was me and Matt and then Christy, Jesse Reeves and Daniel Carson.
It was like six people?
Five people.
Yeah, we were sitting around a picnic table.
Yeah, just all sitting around writing the song.
_ _ It just happened that day that we were in the same group together.
_ The song started, Jesse Reeves came with this idea, this old hymn, Lord I Need You.
He said, wouldn't it be cool to work a new song around that timeless chorus.
That's kind of how this song started.
Just _ _ like that.
So it was very cool.
So it's really kind of this song where _ this real simple, but there's so much power in
this confession, Lord I need you.
Even from the opening line of the song, Lord I come, I confess, bowing here I find my rest.
This idea of humbling ourselves before God and really just as a way to say, I can't,
I need you.
_ Just such a powerful thing to say and carrying that into Passion and thinking about all the
_ _ different temptations or circumstances of life that a university student would find themselves in.
Kind of at the end of the day, in their dorm room by themselves, it's just them and the
Word of God going, I need you.
Trying to capture that moment. _ _
I found that even for me, since Passion has been over, I was just telling Matt, I pick
up my guitar and I play this song all the time just as a way _ to say this over life.
Lord I need you.
Yeah, and just knowing the song was written specifically for college students at the Passion
Conference, but at the same time the song is so meaningful for anybody who's a believer.
Just that cry of Lord I need you.
_ We wanted to keep it really organic too.
We didn't want to put any of this big production around it.
After we had written the song and it was _ finished, I guess it was like a week and a half or two
weeks later, you got on the ball pretty quick.
Matt sent this demo over with, I don't know who did it, was it just you?
It was me and then it was actually, there was like two guys from the band Addison Road.
I was on tour with them and I was like, hey I need you to come in here and do foot stomps
and hand claps for me.
So they kind of did that.
_ It just sounded so real.
It was me in a classroom basically.
Just demoing it.
And so I was telling Matt, we spent so much time chasing down that demo.
We wanted to sound that real and raw. _ _
Like you could just pick up an acoustic guitar and play it.
Sure.
You guys play it for us, we'd love to hear it. _ _ _
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You're the _ one _ [F#] _ that [E] guides my _ heart.
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Lord I need you, _ oh I need _ _ [F#] you. _
_ [G#m] _ _ Every [E] _ hour [B] I _ need _ [F#] you. _
[B] My one [E] _ _ defense, [B] my _ _ [E] righteousness. _
[B] Oh God, how [F#] I need _
[B] _ _ you. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The sin runs deep, _ _ your grace is more.
_ _ Where [G#m] grace is found, _ _ [B] is [E] where you are.
_ _ And where [B] you are, _ _ _ [E] Lord [B] I am free.
_ This _ _ holiness _ _ [F#] _ is Christ [E] in me.
_ Where [B] you are, _ _ Lord I am free.
_ _ This holiness _ _ [F#] _ _ is Christ [B] in _ _ _ _ me. _ _ _ _ _ _
Lord I need you, [E] _ oh [B] I need _ _ [F#] _ _
you.
[G#m] _ _ Every [E] _ hour [B] I _ need _ [F#] _ _
you.
[B] My one _ _ defense, my _ _ _ [E] righteousness. _
[B] Oh God, how [F#] I need [B] _ _ _ _ you. _ _
To teach my [F#] song to [G#m] rise to you. _ _ _ _ _
When temptation [B] comes [E] my way.
_ _ _ And when I cannot [B]
stand, I'll fall [G#m] on you. _ _
_ _ _ Jesus, you're [F#] my [B] hope and stay. _ _ _
When [E] I cannot [G#m] stand, I'll fall on you. _ _ _ _ _ _
Jesus, [F#] you're my [B] hope and stay.
_ _ So there, we would just build up back into the chorus.
Yeah, and simple chorus but a lot of changes.
Like, it's very reminiscent of hymns.
There's a lot of movement there.
So Christian, you're actually capo forward playing in the key of B.
Matt, you've got to be tuned down.
I'm tuned down.
_ I can see people at home trying to figure out how you're doing that in the key of C.
_ So Christian, walk us through what you're playing.
Just some simple chords, quite a few changes.
Yeah, so it starts on the G.
_ _ And then, [E] you know. _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ [E] That's _ _
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_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ what I need.
So it's all pretty simple.
Yeah.
But _ it's just a lot of different changes.
Yeah, [E] and show us the bridge part because it changes up a little bit right there.
Yeah, so the bridge part, that was the verse.
And so the bridge would start on the C.
_ _ Teach [B] my song [F#] to rise [G#m] to you.
_ So it just kind of [E] walks down.
[D#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [G#m] _ _
When temptation comes [E] my way.
_ _ _ _ And when I [B] cannot [F#] stand, I'll [G#m] follow you.
And then, you know, Jesus, [F#] you're my hope [B] and stay.
Back to the one.
Yeah.
And then that chorus is just real simple.
It's just the _ [E] G.
Yeah, so what [B] I need [E] you.
_ Oh, [B] I _ _ [C#] need you.
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _
[E] Every hour [B] I need _
[C#] you.
And this part, I just rock back and forth between the G and the C.
[E] And let either the bass player or the guitar player do something.
Yeah, because then I keep it simple.
It's basically those two chords and then the bass is playing like a.
It's playing like a.
And it would be like a B, C, D, E.
_ [D#] And so it's like [E] these notes.
_ [F#] _ _
[G#] _ _ _ _ Yeah, that's the whole thing.
[E] You just have to get all the timing and changes down.
Yeah, it's pretty simple.
Well, guys, thanks so much for sharing it with us.
Thanks, Jimmy.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks for having me.
_ _ _ _ [B] _ Lord, I need you.
Oh, I need _ [F#] _ you.
[G#m] _ _ _
[E] Every hour [B] of me.
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