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
Freedom would prevail


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

With justice no longer in the way

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Mercy came running
Like a prisoner 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 running to me


Once there was a broken heart
Way to human from the start
And all the years left it torn apart

Hopeless and afraid

Walls I never meant to build

Left this prisoner unfulfilled
Freedom called but even still
It seemed so far away


I was bound by the chains
From the wages of my sin

Just when I felt like giving in

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Sometimes I still feel so far
So far from where I really should be

He gently calls to my heart
Just to remind me


repeat chorus