Intro
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I was once a dead man
C2         D/F#    G
A stranger with no home
C2      D/F#       G
I stood opposed to God himself
    C2     D/F#     G
And yet He pardoned me

Intro x4

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With all my heart and the fiercest will
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Desired not but to thieve and kill
           G                     D/F#
I hadn't a thought of peace, but war
              G        C2      D/F#
Surrender was not what I'd endure

G       C2   G                    D/F#
Deliver me! Wake me up from this damning sleep
G            C2   G                     D/F#
I'm surrendering! Pull me out from this wickedness
G       C2       G        C2
In this thieving heart of stone
G                    C2           G    D/F#
I realized all these sins I could not atone

G       Gsus D/F#
I was a murderer
G             Gsus    D/F#
Faced with my list of crimes

C2    D/F#   G
I was once a dead man
C2         D/F#    G
A stranger with no home
C2      D/F#       G
I stood opposed to God himself
    C2     D/F#     G
And yet He pardoned me

G          D/F#           Gsus         D/F#
So just at the right time when we were dead in our sins
G             D/F#     Gsus             D/F#  G
  C2  G
You took this heart of mine and gave me life again
            D/F#  G   D/F#  G
You gave me life again

D/F#    G          D/F#
So far apart and a debt to fulfill
   G          C2        D/F#
This purchase bought on redemption's hill
          G                  D/F#
An ailing disease I couldn't cure
        G          C2       D/F#
Oh this grace! How rich and pure!

G D/F# C D/F#

G                       D/F#
The mob they yelled and screamed for justice
     C2                       D/F#
That wrath was ours we are to blame
G
You made a spectacle of rulers
                        D/F#
Denying You of a king's fame
C2     D/F#        G
Having crushed the written canon
D/F#          G       D/F#
That wrote of all our guilt and shame
C2        D/F#     G
Displayed upon the tree it was nailed
C2         G     D/F#
The saving power of Your name


    C2    D/F#   G
For I was once a dead man
C2         D/F#    G
A stranger with no home
    C2       D/F#
You saw this wretch
        G
And You gave him life
C2      D/F#        G
Forever I'll praise You!
              C2
I will praise You!