Where Were You

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I said God I do not understand this world
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everything is dying and broken
G                        C      G
why do I see nothing but suffering

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God I'm asking could this be Your plan
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Sin has taken hold of this whole land
G                              C  G
Will You not say anything else to me?

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He said where were you the day that I measured
D                  Am                          C
sunk the banks and stretched the line over
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all the earth and carved out its corner stone?

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Where were you the day that I spoke and
D                Am                     C
told the sun to split the night open
C                                         G
caused the morning dark with its light to show

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Who shut in the ocean with stone doors
D                   Am                           C
marked the reach of tides on those new shores
C                                           G
hung the day the waves rose and first broke forth

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Have you seen the springs of that great sea
D                  Am                          C
walked the caverns carved in the black deep
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through the gates of darkness there on its floor

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Have you seen the armoury i hold
D                 Am                    C
snow and hail are stacked up in silos
C                                    G
for the times of trouble and war and strife

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Can you raise your voice to the storm cloud
D                 Am                    C
would the thunder answer and ring out
C                                          G
does the lightning ask you where it should strike

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Who has cleft the channels for torrents
D                   Am                   C
rain to sprout the desert with forest
C                                  G
in the wilderness that my hand has built

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Can you hunt the prey for your lions
D               Am                C
can you use the cords of orion
C                                        G
is this whole world bending beneath your will?

  D                         C
I spoke of things I did not understand
           Em            D
things too wonderful for me
D                          C
although I had no right to ask
       D                  G
my God knelt and answered me