Misc Praise Songs – Shadows Lengthen Into Night Lenten Verses (Guitar)

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This is the alternate lenten setting of this song. There are eight other verses not found here. [Verse]
Em                       Em/D
God who rules the waning day

C7                         Bsus Bm
Darkness steals across the land

Am                     Em/G
Hear your people as we pray

F#m(b5)                   Bsus Bm
Hold us trembling in your hand

C7      Bm7      F7     Em
Shadows lengthen   into night
[Chorus]
Em                   Em/D
Lonely roads to Zion mourn

C7                Bsus Bm
As her enemies prevail

Am                         Em/G
All her priests and elders groan

F#m(b5)                        Bsus Bm
All her young girls grieve and wail

C7      Bm7      F7     Em
Shadows lengthen   into night
[Verse]
Em                    Em/D
Shackled with a heavy chain

C7                   Bsus Bm
Sorely broken by the rod

Am                    Em/G
Days of sorrow and of pain

F#m(b5)                 Bsus Bm
Can this be the hand of God

C7      Bm7      F7     Em
Shadows lengthen   into night
[Chorus]
Em                      Em/D
Look, O Lord, on our disgrace

C7                     Bsus Bm
Captive people live as slaves

Am                        Em/G
Heartsick hungering after grace

F#m(b5)               Bsus Bm
Be for us the God who saves!

C7      Bm7      F7     Em
Shadows lengthen   into night

Em                      Em/D
Look, the Lamb of God appears,

C7                        Bsus Bm
Sinless, to the slaughter led

Am                           Em/G
For our sins and griefs, his tears:

F#m(b5)                 Bsus Bm
Beaten, he will soon be killed

C7      Bm7      F7     Em
Shadows lengthen   into night