Chords for The Wilderness (feat. Ian Buchanan, Zae the Blacksmith & Ben Wilson)

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My name is Ibram Yo, [E] I used to serve other [A] gods.
My ways were pagan, but I couldn't resist this common's call.
I came to Cainden many days across rugged soil, but since he's the living God, he's
worth it just to [Dm] suffer hard.
Some think I need my brain [E] examined, cause I left my father's house for the [D] land God
gave me, but it's plagued with major [A] famine.
With lies I'm struggling, a sojourner's suffering.
I go down to Egypt, but the Lord will bring me up again.
He's telling me this, eternal is my homeland, but I'm dwelling in tents, sojourner in my own land.
[D] Though I'm battered and I'm bruised, I set the pattern for these Jews of sufferers, who
[Am] trust your word, 11th chapter of Hebrews.
See I'm the [A] forefather of many [Am] suffering sons of God, [Gm] who preferred this to being poor [A] mongers.
Across the wits of dark calling, getting hard often, he'll bring us into glory cause
our faithful God's loving.
Loved by [E] my father and despised by my brethren, tossed [D] in a pit and then soaked by these henchmen.
[A] A slave in Egypt, but the Lord's who I'm trusting in.
He's preserving the nations I'll trust, he'll raise me [Am] up again.
His [Gm] wisdom's sufficient, though I'm a slave in this prison.
Betrayed by [D] my kinsmen, but by grace I'll forgive them.
[A] Raised up by God to provide for all the nations, to eat of this bread and be saved from starvation.
[Dm] As for my brothers who [E] sought after to kill me, I'm forgiving their sin and invite them
to come face with me.
[A] Into lawless hands I was handed [Bbm] over, but now I reign over the land by [Am] the hand of Jehovah.
I trusted [Gm] him who indeed was able to raise me [A] up from out of the pit and release me from slavery.
Trust and believe in the one who will certainly [Fm] raise thee, the promised seed who suffers
as king in order to [D] save thee.
It's been a rugged ride through this wilderness, surviving this pilgrimage.
I've [A] seen your people wild and wild, you providing the illest gifts.
I've seen your work of storing turning bitter water sweet.
When you gave us bread from heaven, it was more than we could [Bb] eat.
You know, trooping through the [D] desert, it was never pleasant.
So I always had this feeling that you would have never let us go.
Cause you [A] heard the cry from your children, suffering in Egypt, though you're not obliged to.
With signs and wonders, you have freed us.
We suffered in the desert, tempted and dwelling in tents.
But in this wilderness, we are waste tent dwelling on instant.
Now you brought me to this land on which I have my last [Bb] moments.
It's tough to digest, but [Am] it's the promised land that I'm beholden.
And even though I'll [Gm] never know its valleys or its peaks in this wilderness, I've [D] grown
to know my Lord and I have peace.
Though we [A] don't deserve to be your people, [Bb] thank you that you chose us with this last breath.
I [A] plead that you receive your servant [Dm] Moses.
In this wilderness, I [Gm] need you.
I [Dm] need you. _
[A] Oh God, I [Dm] seek you.
I seek you.
Oh Lord, while [Bb] many have wandered astray, [Am] fallen away, as long as the day is still regarded today.
We'll call on your name, your weight, we'll holler your [Dm] praise.
We long for the day when you take away all of our pain.
Lord, this king's in the wilderness.
I'm [E] running from Saul with the ruggedest squad.
But [D] nevertheless, my heart hungered for God.
Rescue me when I stumble and fall.
I'm in love with your law.
Honor is what your king to govern [Dm] no more.
Have I been anointed to suffer, appointed to [Am] suffer?
As a suffer [D] wilderness king, I point to another.
I [A] write psalms in the desert.
You're like, oh, my depression.
Because your chasah is better than life.
Oh God, you're my [Dm] treasure.
Your praise I will mention, although [E] there's pain and affliction.
Just like King Joseph, I've been betrayed by my kinsmen.
[A] But you vindicate me because your hand is going to [D] save.
I'll stand and be amazed because my life's [Am] not abandoned to the grave.
I'm tired and [Gm] worn.
I've been despised and I'm [Am] scorned.
My own son has [A] died.
He was caught in briars and thorns.
Preview of Messiah, of course.
This wilderness rock reminds me of how I must hide in the Lord.
[Dm] They persecute me because I'm speaking for [E] God.
They not feeling them.
I found refuge [D] while I'm retreating off in the wilderness.
They [A] sought to take my life with swords and knives.
I had to flee for 40 days and 40 nights, a time that cried myself to [Dm] sleep.
But the Lord provided water from a brook and the [Am] heat wouldn't have survived
if [D] I was deprived of bread and meat [A] to stay protected from the elements.
I have been provided with some garments made from animal hides.
I walk the wilderness at Mount Sinai, feeling so lonesome,
consoled by thoughts of walking in the steps of Moses.
The way they [D] lie and threaten my life just ain't right.
What will be [Ab] said about Elijah, the [Dm] Tishbite?
I weep for my [E] people, the wandering sheepfold,
the cravings and [Bb] lusts are disgustingly lethal.
[A] They abandoned their God in pursuit of their evil
and must be punished through a foreign conquering [Dm] people.
Like Joseph, [Gm] I too was tossed down a deep pit,
[A] was laid in a grave, but was raised.
I keep preaching repentance from [Bb] sin because judgment is now approaching.
Down from the [A] north, the king of Babylon's [Dm] encroaching.
And yet I am swept down to [E] Egypt,
though I was innocent and observed all his precepts,
counted as a lost [A] covenant breaker and reject.
It's [D] all for the sake of redeeming all [Am] of the elect.
Yeah, for other sins, [Gm] I'm in exile and suffering.
I'll die in [D] Egypt.
Will the Lord bring me up again [A] for all your sins?
[Bb] The branch of David was [Dm] suffering.
Repent and believe he'll indeed raise you up again.
I _ [A] need you.
I [Dm] need you. _
[A] I [Dm] need you.
I need you.
I need you.
A low woman, [Bb] he kept wanted to stray, falling away.
[Am] As long as the day is still regarded to say
we'll call on your name, your weight will harden your [Dm] praise.
We long for the day when you take away all of our pain.
I must have caught a mob.
[E] Some of them thought I was Elijah.
But now I'm just on [D] the one they call the baptizer.
I've been surviving [A] in the wild.
Guess they all think it's funny that I dress in camel hair and live off locusts
and honey.
But I ain't telling jokes.
[E] Either repent or you'll get smoke.
Leave the comfort of your homes [D] into the desert for your own.
Like the [A] children of Israel set off into the desert
before the son of Nun would bring them to the land.
Less and less to say that I'm like Moses calling you out of Egypt,
pointing to Joshua, hoping that you receive him.
But my time is up soon.
I'll be dead is what they said.
Tell them they'll never turn me hard, even if they take my head.
[Dm] When I was just [E] a kid, even then I was suffering.
We fled down to Egypt.
When Herod died, we went up again to [A] reverse the sins of Israel, the nation.
I'm the true Israel's son [Dm] who will beat him.
Wilderness temptation, though the devil was tempted me with these filthy [Am] sins.
The father's words, my [D] living bread in this wilderness.
Yeah, [A] I'll take the multitude out to the hills for this so I can read them
as the bread from heaven in the [Dm] wilderness.
True for my brothers, [E] since I was on the cross, suffering,
I went [A] down to death with the father.
He brought me up again, betrayed by my kinsmen, then raised up.
I'm living to my father's rights all the year like safely.
You bring them here because I'm bringing many sons to glory.
All those who suffer with me, whether [D] they were after or before me.
Put your [A] trials on the quaint and while I blaze the trail.
If you endure your rights forever, we'll be glorified together.
The wilderness pride of Christ is this beautiful church
united and blessed in him through his sufferings and works.
He traversed the distance.
He lavishes, gives [Dm] us his gifts for this pilgrimage.
[Am] And he's promised to give us rest at the end of [E] our journey.
We long it.
We're yearning.
We groan with the rest of [Gm] creation.
This tent is a [A] burden, death that will murder us.
But the Lord is preserving [A] us.
He'll raise our bodies and give us rest when the journey's [Dm] up.
Lord, your [E] blood spilled and you were killed for this.
Your communion bread is feeding us in this wilderness,
[A] in our suffering, rescue us from [Bb] grumbling.
Give us Christ.
Let us [Am] run to him instead of other things.
Many can take the heat.
So [Am] they got out the kitchen.
They left the faith, [D] fled the saints.
We thought he was Christian.
The Uti Saints laid the pattern [A] for Jesus.
And through our union with Christ, we're being fashioned as he [Dm] is.
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