Chords for Who You Are To Me // Chris Tomlin // New Song Cafe

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[Db] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ Some people think you're distant, just some words on a page
[Abm] That you're nothing more than fables handed [E] down along the way
[B] But I've seen you part the waters
Where no one else could pull me [Abm] from
The deep into you [E] out of me
_ Some people think you just live in cathedrals made [B] of stone
But [Abm] I know you live inside my heart, [B] I know that it's your home
And I've seen you in a sunset, in the eyes [Ab] of a stranger [Abm] on the street
It's who you are [E] to me
_ [B] You're amazing, faith, love's [Db] open door
When [Abm] I'm in, you fill me [E] with hunger for more
Of [B] your mercy, your goodness, Lord, you're [Db] the air that [Abm] I breathe
It's [B] who you are to me _ _
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_ _ _ _ Sometimes I have my doubts, I'm sure that everybody does
[Abm] I wonder when I stumble, [E] am I still worthy [Db] of your love?
[B] But I know that I get stronger when I'm talking to you down on my knees
You're everything I need
You're amazing, faith, love's [Db] open door
[Abm] When I'm in, you fill me with [B] hunger for more
Of your mercy, your goodness, Lord, you're [Db] the air [Abm] that I breathe
It's [B] who you are to me _ _
Who [Dbm] you are to [Abm] me
_ [Ab] _ _
[Db] _ _ You're [Abm] forever, _ _
[Gb] holy, you're [B] the lamb that _ [E] is worthy
My [B] forgiveness, my [Abm] healer, the [Gb] messiah, my _
[E] redeemer
_ _ _ _ You're amazing, faith, _ love's open [Db] door
When [Abm] I'm in, you fill me [B] with hunger for more
Of your mercy, your goodness, Lord, you're [Db] the air [Abm] that I breathe
_ [B] It's who you are
You are greater, higher, over it all
In [Abm] your presence, Jesus, [E] I stand in awe
Of [B] your mercy, your goodness, Lord, you're [Db] the air that [Abm] I breathe
That's _ [B] who you are to me
Who you [Db] are [B] to me
[Ab] Who [B] _ you are to me
_ _ That's who [Db] you are [Abm] to me
Chris, [B] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ good to see you, man.
Jimmy, thank you, buddy.
Daniel and Matt, thank you guys for joining us, sharing this song.
Man, it's so amazing, Chris.
_ I'd love to hear you talk a little bit about this song.
We've been hearing this music for a little while and so excited about it. _
As you and I have talked a little bit about, I love these songs
because I feel like they're worship songs for the church,
but they're really relevant and understandable to anybody that's even outside the church.
This is one of those songs, I mean, Who You Are To Me,
it's really coming up against, a lot of people have ideas about what God is,
but this is about relationship and personal.
It just has this song moves and it gets really worshipful during that last bridge
and the chorus at the end.
But talk about this a little bit.
I love that you wrote this with all the girls and the guys in Lady A
and y'all collaborated on this, which I think is amazing.
Just the influences there and you can hear those harmonies and everything
definitely coming out that you guys worked on.
But talk about that experience, first of all, of writing that
and then just a little bit of thoughts behind the song.
Yeah, this is really special.
I wrote this with Lady A, with Charles, Hillary and Dave,
who are good friends of mine.
I've known Dave and Hillary for quite a while.
_ Getting to know Charles, we wrote this together.
I remember Charles walked in with this thought, this idea.
He said, when I think about faith, when I think about what I know of God,
I think about these stories from the past.
I think about Sunday school stories when I was a kid.
So much of my faith for me has been those Sunday school stories as a kid.
_ David and Goliath, Noah's Ark, the party in the Red Sea, all those things.
Then he just got vulnerable really fast.
_ He got real, really quick.
He said, _ _ I've been in a hard place the last couple of years, a real hard place.
He said, it's been in that moment where God's been really personal to me
and I really understood who God is.
Man, instantly, these words came.
Some people think you're distant, just some words on a page.
You're nothing more than fables handed down along the way,
but I've seen you part the waters when no one else can pull me from the deep.
That's who you are to me.
I think that people feel this in that song.
It's like you said, it's very relatable to anybody
because most of us, that's where we are.
At some point in our life, it's like, is God really real?
Is it more than just those stories I've heard, those amazing miracle stories?
God can do that in my life and He's real to me.
Just writing this with them, it was really a dream.
I don't think I've written a song that fast in a long time.
It was just wow.
It came so quickly.
I love, and that was my first time to write with them,
and they're such good singers.
You can hear on the track, they are incredible.
It's three-part.
It's like they talk in three-part because they've been doing it for so long
and they have that sound, that harmony thing.
So we would sing a line, I was like, what about,
you were amazing faithful, and they just go into the three-part.
I was like, I don't know if this is good or not because this sounds so amazing.
Let me sing it by myself, see if it's any good.
See if the common person can sing it.
They just sounded incredible.
And so it was so fun making this track because it was all there, done.
In a couple hours, we were finished, and I feel like this song could be really
special for a church because there's so much, especially worship teams now,
the guys and the girls singing together.
There's not a lot of songs where they kind of intermix.
And as you sing this, you'll hear how the melodies work with each,
with the guy and a female.
It just sounds like one thing, but when you start dissecting the song,
you'll see, oh, wow, that's really thought through because that's the way
they think through songs.
All their songs are that way.
Where does Hillary fit in with Charles and the melody and making sure it all
works right because guys and girls sing in such a different place, right?
It's brilliant.
I wish I could take credit for it, but it's just genius how they just enter,
they do the melodies like that.
Well, and I love just the honesty in the lyric of this too.
That second verse is what really, it just really gets me.
Sometimes I have my doubts.
I know that everybody does.
It's like when you sing that, I feel an instant togetherness.
It's like, yeah, okay, we're all just together.
We're walking this road together.
And I think about churches singing that and just with a worship leader singing
that and being transparent with this congregation, and then [Gm] all of a sudden
that person is sitting out there that's got all of these doubts and stuff like
that, and they're like, man, yeah, we're all together.
I'm no different than everybody else.
It's so encouraging to know that we're all in this together.
Yeah, and in the interesting scripture too, it makes me think of the interesting
scripture when it wasn't Jesus, but it's the Apostle said,
_ Lord, I believe, help me in my unbelief.
What an incredible sentence.
Lord, I believe, now help me in my unbelief.
That's what this song is saying.
Sometimes I have my doubts.
I'm sure everybody does, but I know that I get stronger when I'm talking to you
down on my knees.
_ That's powerful.
Wow, that is really powerful.
Man, walk us through what you're playing.
You're capoed four, is that right?
Yeah, right now I am because, again, I put the song way too high.
I had to bring it down.
I had to bring it down because when we were singing it with them, I was like,
okay, I got to reach here because they're just such incredible singers.
This record has pushed me, man, vocally more than any record I've ever done.
You've got these incredible singers on every song in their own style.
Everybody has their own style, and I'm trying to just keep up at every turn.
[E] I put it in B just for [Ab] demonstrations.
_ [Abm] It's in C, D flat, [Gm] those kind of keys, but _ [B] just playing in the G shapes.
_ _ The progression is really about this one to two minor kind of feel.
_ I'll count it out for you, and that's really the feel of it.
But it goes on.
The verse is _ _
_ _ [Dbm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ that's really that one, two, six, four, one, G, A minor, E minor,
C.
When you count it out, it's like [B] one, two, three, four, one, [Dbm] two, three, four,
[Abm] one, two, three, four, one, [B] two, three, [Abm] four.
You get that?
It really doesn't change much.
There's a few changes in the song, but that's the basis of the song.
_ Sometimes I have my doubts.
I'm sure that everybody does.
[Abm] I wonder when I stumble, am I still worthy [B] of your love?
That's that feel.
The same in the chorus.
You're amazing, faithful, _ love's open [Db] the door [Abm] when I'm in fear.
It's [Gb] just that really cool feel of the song that _ _ really keeps that feel throughout the whole song.
Then the bridge changes a little bit, and it goes, [Abm] E _ minor.
_ [Gb] It's kind of a five over seven chord, or D [Gb] over F sharp. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] E [Ab] minor, five over seven, [B] G, _ C.
_ Then the chords just kind of keep going up.
When I was working on that little bridge, you keep the one with [Db] the five in the bass.
[B] The five, one over, it's kind of hard to say on the guitar.
_ You can hear the bass change to the five chord [Gb] while you're playing the one chord.
My forgiveness, [Abm] my healer, [Gb] the Messiah, my [B] redeemer. _
Those changes kind of get a little bit interesting in the back half of that bridge. _
It's just how the bass really walks up with the chords that make it that emotional lift
into just going back to that simple chorus.
Man, it's so good.
Thank you so much for sharing the song with us.
Thank you for writing it, man.
What an encouragement for the church.
Thanks, buddy. _
_ You're amazing, faithful, love's [N] open the door when I'm in fear. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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