Steven Curtis Chapman – How Love Wins Thief (Guitar)

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Our life began like any other man,

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held beneath a mother's loving gaze

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And somewhere between now and then

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I lost the man I could have been

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Took ev'rything that wasn't mine to take

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But love believes that it is not too late

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Only one of us deserves this cross,

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our suffering that belongs to me

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And deep within this man I hang beside

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Is the place where shame and grace collide

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And it's beautiful agony

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that love believes it's not too late for me

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This is how love wins ev'ry single time,

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and climbing high up - on a tree

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Where someone else should die,

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this is how love heals the deepest part of you

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Letting Himself bleed into the middle of your wounds,

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this is how love says Standing at the door,

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 you don't have to be who you've been before

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Silenced by His voice, death can't speak again,

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this is how love wins

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Did you see this moment from the start

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That we would drink this cup of suffer - ing

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I wonder did we ever meet,  childhood games and dusty streets

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For all my many sorrows and regrets

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nothing could compare to just this one

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That in the presence of my King

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I cannot fall upon my knees

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I cannot carry You up to Your throne,

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You instead will carry me back home

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This is how love wins ev'ry single time,

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and climbing high up - on a tree

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Where someone else should die,

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this is how love heals the deepest part of you

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Letting Himself bleed into the middle of your wounds,

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this is how love says Standing at the door,

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you don't have to be who you've been before

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Silenced by His voice, death can't speak again,

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this is how love wins

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What can wash away my sin,

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nothing but the blood, nothing but the blood

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What can make me whole again,

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nothing but the blood, nothing but the blood

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'Cause this is what love says standing at the door

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You don't have to be who you've been before

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Silenced by His death can't speak again,

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this is how love wins