Mercy Came Running sing and play along

Once there was a holy place,

evidence of God's embrace;

and I can almost see mercy's face pressed against the veil.

Looking down with longing eyes,

mercy must have realized

that once His blood was sacrificed it freedom would prevail.

And as the sky grew the dark and the earth began to shake,

with justice no longer in the way,

mercy came arunnin' like a pris'ner set free,

past all my failures to the point of my need.

When the sin that I carried was all I could see,

and when I could not reach mercy,

mercy came arunnin' to me.

Once there was a broken heart,

way too dence man from the start;

and all the years left it torn apart,

hopeless and afraid.

Walls I never meant to build

left this pris'ner unfulfilled.

that Freedom called but even still it seemed so far away.

And I was bound by the chains from the wages of my sin,

and just when I felt like givin' in,

mercy came arunnin' like a pris'ner set free,

past all my failures to the point of my need.

When the sin that I carried was all I could see,

and when I could not reach mercy,

mercy came arunnin' to me.

Sometimes I still feel so far,

so far from where I really should be.

He gently calls to my heart just to remind me:

Mercy came arunnin' like a pris'ner set free,

past all my failures to the point of my need.

When the sin that I carried was all I could see,

and when I could not reach mercy,

mercy came, mercy came arunnin' like a pris'ner set free,

past all my failures to the point of my need.

When the sin that I carried was all I could see,

and when I could not reach mercy,

mercy came, mercy came arunnin' mercy came,

mercy came arunnin'.