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Standard (EADGBE)

Is this the strange feeling

Of you working all to good

'Cause I am so confused

 I don't even ask for what I should

When I asked for and deserved a stone

 You broke and gave your body as bread

And even the stone that dropped down and rolled away

 Spoke of the one who bled

There you go working good from my bad

There you go making robes from my rags

There you go melting crowns from my calves

There you go working good of all I have

 Till all I have's not that bad

When I asked for and deserved a serpent

You gave a net full of fish

And even the serpent that told the lie

When lifted high foretold the gift

Repeat chorus

For you so loved the unlovable

That you gave the ineffable

 That who so believes the unbelievable

 Will gain the unattainable

Repeat chorus

2. Thankful

You know I ran across

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An old box of letters

 When I was bagging up some clothes for goodwill

And you know I had to laugh

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At the same old struggles

 That plagued me then are plaguing me still

'Cause I know the road is long

From the ground to glory

But a boy can hope he's getting some place

But you see I'm running from

The very clothes I'm wearing

And dressed like this I'm fit for the chase

 ‘Cause there is none righteous

 Not one who understands

There is none who seeks God no not one

 I said, no not one

 And so I am thankful that I'm incapable of doing any good on my own

'Cause we're all still-born

Dead in our transgressions

Shackled up to the sin we hold so dear

What part can I play

In the work of redemption

'Cause I can't refuse and I cannot add a thing

'Cause I am just like Lazarus

And I can hear your voice

I stand and rub my eyes and walk to you

Because I have no choice

And so I am thankful that I'm incapable of doing any good on my own

Said I'm so thankful that I'm incapable of doing any good on my own yeah

'Cause it's by grace I have been saved

And through faith it's not my own

It is a gift of God and not by works

Lest anyone should boast

Repeat chorus

until end

3. Shifting Sand

Shifting sand Words and music by Aaron Tate

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Sometimes I believe all the lies

 So I can do the things I should despise

And everyday I am swayed

 By whatever is on my mind

I hear it all depends on my faith

 So I'm feeling precarious

The only problem I have with these mysteries

 Is they're so mysterious

And like a consumer I've been thinking

 If I could just get a bit more

More than my fifteen minutes of faith

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Then I'd be secure

Chorus

My faith is like shifting sand

 Changed by every wave

My faith is like shifting sand

 So I stand on grace

I've begged you for some proof

For my Thomas eyes to see

A slithering staff, a leprous hand

And lions resting lazily

A glimpse of your back-side glory

And this soaked altar going ablaze

But you know I've seen so much

And I explained it away

Chorus

Bridge

Waters rose as my doubts reigned

My sand-castle faith it slipped away

Found myself standing on your grace

It'd been there all the time

Chorus 2x

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4. Faith in my eyes

 Intro

 As I survey the ground for ants

Looking for a place to sit and read

 I'm reminded of the streets of my hometown

 How they're much like this concrete that's warm beneath my feet

And how I'm all wrapped up in my mother's face

With a touch of my father just up around the eyes

And the sound of my brother's laugh

But more wrapped up in what binds our ever distant lives

But if I must go

Things I trust will be better off without me

 But I don't want to know

Life is better off a mystery

 So keep 'em coming these lines on the road

 And keep me responsible be it a light or heavy load

 And keep me guessing with these blessings in disguise

 And I'll walk with grace my feet and faith my eyes

Hometown weather is on TV

And I imagine the lives of the people living there

And I'm curious if they imagine me

Cause they just wanna leave; I wish that I could stay

But I get turned around

And I mistake my happiness for blessing

But I'm blessed as the poor

Still I judge success by how I'm dressing

 So keep 'em coming these lines on the road

 And keep me responsible be it a light or heavy load

 And keep me guessing with these blessings in disguise

 And I'll walk with grace my feet and faith my eyes

 La-la-la’s

So I'll sing a song of my hometown

I'll breathe the air and walk the streets

Maybe find a place to sit and read

And the ants are welcome company

Repeat chorus

 I'll walk with grace my feet and faith my eyes.

 And I'll walk with grace my feet and faith my eyes...

5. Where I Began

Where I began Words and music by Aaron Tate

The grass looked greener on the other side so I tried to

Snatch myself from your hand

Caught a boat to anywhere but Nineveh and, well, you know, I

Got spit back on dry land.

Give me purity and give me continence

But oh no, not yet

Like a coin hiding in the corner trying not to be swept

I was trying not to be swept.

Kicking against these goads sure did cut up my feet

And didn't your hands get bloody as you washed them clean.

Here I am again, back where I began

Try as I may I can't get away from you

And all of these roads that lead me to roam, bring me back home.

Here I am again, back where I began.

So you have yourself your ninety nine

Isn't that enough for you

Still you followed me to the shadowed valley

Carried me on your shoulders too.

I've done the work of Sisyphus

Thinking that I could get over this hill

But the one thing I can't get over now...(is the)

Is the force of your will.

Repeat chorus 2x

Chords

6. Table for two

Danny and I spent another late night over pancakes

 We talked about soccer and how every man's just the same

 We made speculation on the 'who's and the 'when's of our futures

 And how everyone's lonely but still we just couldn't complain

 And how we just hate being alone

 Could I have missed my only chance

 And now I'm just wasting my time

 Looking around

But you know I know better I'm not gonna worry 'bout nothing

'Cause if the birds and the flowers survive then I'll make it okay

If given a chance and a rock see which one breaks a window

And see which one keeps me up all night and into the day

Because I'm so scared of being alone

That I forgot what house I live in

But it's not my job to wait by the phone

For her to call

Well this day's been crazy but everything's happened on schedule

From the rain and the cold to the drink that I spilled on my shirt

'Cause You knew how You'd save me before I fell dead in the garden

And You knew this day long before You made me out of dirt

And You know the plan You have for me

And You can't plan the ends and not plan the means

And so I suppose I just need some peace

To get me to sleep

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7. Climb On

Intro

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Oh, my soul, sometimes we don't know what to do

 We work so hard at being tough on our own

 But now it's me and you

 Let's give it up, sad bones

 'Cause we all fall on hard times

 But you don't have to stand up all alone

 Just put your hand in mine

 Climb on

…..

 A back that's strong

Hey hey, you can get what you want

 Climb on a back that's strong

If you could save me a place in heaven

With a clean well lighted room

I'd muscle up to Armageddon

Wave to you darlin' be home soon

If you could show me the story of love

I would write it again and again

And then you could be the women you need

If you'd just let me be the man that I am

Repeat Chorus

Oh, I don't know

Sometimes we try to hard to see

But we've got one down and one more to go

That's when you say to me

Repeat chorus

8. Petrified Heart

This old heart's been left

 Out on my sleeve

And I have paid as it's been rent

Into pieces

 Seems everyone I've loved has

Taken a bit of my insides

 I'm scattered as the woman whose body

 Was torn for the twelve tribes

When did my heart get so petrified

When did it get so hard to feel

When did my heart get so afraid to love

When did it get so hard

And the easy-living Gnostic proud

Use their knowledge

Like a wrecking ball to tear me down

Flooding me with their fallacies

I can't walk on this water

I'm starting to drown

Repeat chorus

Strike this rock with your rod

 I'll take the blows

Till your living water begins to flow

As it flowed from the man of sorrow's sides

On that day when his body was torn for the twelve tribes

Was torn for the twelve tribes

Repeat chorus

9. Somewhere North

Somewhere north

It's a muggy night in Houston

And all the intersections are like full serve stations

 I'm on my way to a familiar place

It's cold in Kansas city

And you can no more hear me than I can see your face

 How I wish it was just you and me

We wouldn't have to talk above the crowd

 We wouldn't have to talk so loud

 'Cause I give you my life and all I am

 But what have I to give

So I hand you a candid photograph of this little boy

 'Cause I've nothing to my name

 But I can give you that

I don't miss the driving

Seems like forever

And I'm always driving in my mind

And wearing out the road that gets me there

And I'm driving till my eyes just can't see straight

But I suppose that it's getting late

Repeat chorus

I may never find the sleep

 I've lost all feeling in my hands and

Feet may touch the ground but

 My mind's somewhere north of here

Repeat chorus

 Chords

10. Daring Daylight Escape

 I've got my mind made up, I've got to love you or leave you fast

Cause I've been thinking clear and I don't know how long it'll last

Cause just like Uri Geller I'm bound to twist the facts around

I've got to get them straight before my baby up and leaves town

 Cause I can't walk on water

 And if I chase you I might drown

 And I'm already up to my neck

 If I may pose a question it'll only take a second

 Cause I know that it's getting late.

 And depending on your answer I might have to pack

 And make a daring daylight escape

 Because it's either high time to make you mine

 Or I swear it's time to get outta town

 So please say yes quick cause the sun's going down

London's nice but it's the last place you wanna go

But there's no crime and you can catch a broadway show

Cause it's just so far and it's bound to get a hold on you

And I've got front page headlines pulled right outta yesterday's news

You can read all about it

About boy meets girl and then

screws the whole thing up

Just like always

Repeat chorus

It's no crime to love you

But my heart's still doing time

It's acting on it's best behavior

Repeat chorus

11. 40 Acres

Out on these Texas plains you can see for a million lives

And there's a thousand exits between here and the state line

About the last time that I saw you

 You said call me Pandora, call me a fool

And I'm thinking this view it could do you some good

So drop these scales and take a look

There's 40 acres and redemption to be found

Just along down the way

There is a place where no plow blade has turned the ground

And you will turn it over,(hey) 'cause out here hope remains

'Cause out here hope remains...

Out here the Texas sky is as big as the sea

And you're alone in your room like an island floating free

Your spirit's hanging in a bottle out on a tree

You say that you're the black sheep, I say you're still family

So throw that bottle to the waves

They'll bring you in to me and from the shore you will see

Repeat Chorus

Out here the Texas rain is the hardest I've ever seen

It'll wash your house away, but it'll also make you clean

Now these rocks they are crying too

And this whole land is calling out for you

Repeat Chorus

Enjoy