Chords for Tenth Avenue North - Worn - Video Journal by Mike Donehey

_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] Why has life got to be so hard?
Pain, _ war, _ _ _ suicide, I mean, _ _ why can't it just be easy? _
_ Why we got to live in this world that's trembling in the wake of the fall?
I pray that a lot.
I'm like, God, just make things easy.
[B] Make things comfortable.
[Bm] _ I thought if I [B] follow you, you make everything good.
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And yet, the rub with that is when I look back [F] on this photo album of my [B] life
and I'm flipping through the pages, _ _ [G#] it's rarely the easy and comfortable [A#] times that God's doing good.
Every time [Bm] God's really doing something amazing in my heart,
it's when everything was falling apart around me.
[B] _ It's like God [Bm] says to me, no, it's not your circumstances that need to change, bro, it's you.
_ [B] God making my life difficult and hard is [Bm] the only reason I'm even doing this now.
This whole music thing, this band thing.
[B] I _ didn't play music.
I was all [Bm] into sports.
And when I was 17, [B] _ I was actually driving to a soccer [Bm] game and my buddy [F#] flipped the car at 50 miles an [Bm] hour.
And I went Peter Pan style out the window.
I flew [B] out and I hit the pavement [Bm] so hard, the doctor said I _ broke my back in two places.
[B] _ I broke my head right here.
You can see the scar maybe. _ _
[Bm] 96 stitches _ were required to put my ear back on.
It was dangling off.
It was pretty awesome.
_ At first the doctors thought I was going to die and I didn't die.
And they're like, well, he's definitely not going to walk again.
And then I walked again and they're like, oh, he'll [A#] definitely not run again. _ _
I ran.
[G] I guess _ God's got other plans [A#] for this guy.
And [Bm] I ended up having to lay on my back for like _ two months.
And so I'm laying there on my back and, you know, it could have been really [B] easy for me to go, God, what's the [Bm] deal, man?
You know, I was just following you.
I was obeying you.
And yet this is how you repay me?
You let me break my back?
Are you kidding me?
_ _ _ _ _ I thought [B] you loved me.
_ But it was then laying on my broken back _ that I finally asked for a guitar.
I'd never played guitar and _ [F#] suddenly I couldn't play sports.
So I needed a hobby.
And so [Bm] laying there on my broken back _ [B] is when my fingers [F#] first started to learn to play those [Bm] chords.
It was _ _ [B] out of that chaos that God brought a song [F#] _
out of my mouth.
And so [C#m] the only reason I'm now [B] singing on a stage every night is because _ God refused to let my life be easy.
_ _ _ He said, no, Mike, it's not your circumstances that need to change, it's you.
_ And sometimes to change us, He's got to put us through the worst things possible.
[Bm] _ And, you know, _ [D] you may [Bm] not have that happy ending right now.
You might be walking through a storm.
You might be walking through [A#] trouble like you've never seen before. _
And [C#m] you're asking, where are you, God?
What's the deal, man?
[Bm] _ _ And I don't even want you to look at my story.
What I would [F#] really, _ [C#] really want you to do is just [B] look at the cross, right? _
And stare at it and [F#] be convinced.
Let the [C#] cross be the evidence that your heart and mind are longing for.
That [B] our God is a God who brings beauty out of pain.
[C#m] _ _
Our God is [D#m] a God who brings art [B] out of chaos.
He brings life out of [F#] death, even His own Son.
_ [C#m] And so if He can bring redemption _ [B] out of the most horrific act that has [F#] ever happened,
then maybe, [C#m] just maybe, _ _ redemption is waiting in the wings [Bm] for you.
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