Mercy Came Running by Phillips, Craig & Dean
Key: AA | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

Verse 1

D                             A               D                        A                         D
 Once there was a holy place.      Evidence of God’s embrace.
                              A                    D                                     E   D
I can almost see mercy’s face,  pressed against the veil.
                                 A                   D                                  A            D
Looking down with longing eyes,       mercy must have realized.
                                 A               D                                 E
Once His blood was sacrificed freedom would prevail.         
                   D                                    A
And as the sky grew dark, and the earth began to shake.
         F#m         Bm     D        E
With justice no longer in the way!

(Chorus)

                           A                                      E
Mercy came a running like a prisoner set free.
                    F#m                 D                E
Past all my failures, to the point of my need.
                 D              A                                 E
When the sin that I carried, was all I could see.
                    D
And when I could not reach mercy,
Bm                  E               A    E
Mercy came a runnin’ to me.

Verse 2

D                             A                   D                           A                    D
 Once there was a broken heart.     Way to human from the start.
                              A                D                            E   D
All the years left it torn apart, hopeless and afraid.
                        A                     D                               A              D
Walls I never meant to build,       left this prisoner unfulfilled
                                A                  D                               E
Freedom called but even still, it seemed so far away.
          D                                               A
I was bound by the chains, from the wages of my sin!
F#m           Bm         D      E
Just when I felt like givin’ in!

(Chorus)

Bridge

C                                    A
  Sometimes I still feel so far!    
                                                   C
So far from where I really should be.
                                      E
He gently calls to my heart! Just to remind me! 

(*Key Change*)

(Chorus - 3x's)

                          B                                        F#        
Mercy came a running, like a prisoner set free. 
                    G#m                                  F#
Past all my failures, to the point of my need.
                                   B                               F#
When the sin that I carried, was all I could see.
                   G#m                               F#                                  B
And when I could not reach mercy, mercy came a runnin’ to me.