Gracious Lord

 
C 
My gracious Lord and loving Father 
                     C 
Attend my desperate plea 
C 
What Earthly truth or mortal power 
                       C 
Can break the curse in me? 
C 
For I cannot bear this burden 
                           C 
O the weight - a grievous toll! 
C 
My broken heart in desperate longing 
                   C 
Unveils my fading soul (Hmm) 
 

 
C                     F         C 
O Lord I fear the righteous judgement 
Am             G       F 
And dread the wage of sin 
C                 F          C 
I shudder at the toll its taken: 
Am          F        C 
My pains without, within 
G                              Am7 
Who can serve this sinners sentence? 
F                 C        G 
Who can pay the ransoms price? 
C                     F      C 
But Christ alone can make amends 
Dm              G     Am 
And bridge the dark divide 
 

Interlude 
G C F Am 
G F Dm 

 
C 
Yet still my thoughts are drawn to Calvry 
                             C 
Where bellowed my Saviours cry, 
C 
My God! My God! Why now forsake me? 
                        C 
Echoes so deep in the night 
C 
Greater still, the Lords surrender 
                        C 
In the twilight of His fate 
C 
His life He yields to God the Father 
                           C 
In death, sin's power He breaks (Hmm) 
 

Interlude 
F 

 
C                   F          C 
My hour has come, defeat is certain 
G                      C 
Conceding, I count my bones 
C                     F      C 
My Prayer is but a broken whisper 
Am            G     C 
My song, a deathly moan 
G                   Am 
Do the dead cry hallelujah? 
F                C           G 
Or the saints recount Your works? 
C                  F         C 
I must accept my heart's surrender 
Am            G       C 
My life, my souls rebirth 
 

Outro 
G                   Am 
Do the dead cry hallelujah? 
F                C         Gsus4 G 
Or the saints recount Your works? 
C                  F         C 
I must accept my heart's surrender 
Am            G       C 
My life, my souls rebirth