Chords for David Phelps - He's Alive from Stories & Songs Vol. I (Official Music Video)

[Am] _ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
[Am] _ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ [G]
[Am] The gates and doors were barred and all [G] the windows fastened [Am] down.
I spent the night in sleeplessness [G] and rose at every [Am] sound.
[D] Half [Dm] in hopeless sorrow,
[G] half in fear the [Am] day
would find the soldiers breaking through [G] to drag us all [Am] away.
[D] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [G] Then [Am] just before the sunrise I [G] heard something at the [Am] wall.
The gate began to rattle and [G] a voice began to [Am] call.
[Dm] I hurried to the window, [G] looked down into the [Am] street,
_ expecting swords and [G] torches and the sound of soldiers [Am] feet. _
_ _ _ But there was no one there but Mary, so [G] I went down to let her [Am] in.
And John stood there beside me as [G] she told us where she'd [Am] been.
She [Dm] said they've moved him in the night and none of us [Am] knows where.
The stone's been rolled away and [G] now his body isn't [Am] there.
_ So [Bm] we both ran to the garden, [A] then John ran on [Bm] ahead.
We found the stone, an empty tomb, [A] just the way that Mary [Bm] said.
[Em] But the winding sheet they'd wrapped him in was [Bm] just an empty shell.
And how well were they taking him?
[A] It was more than I [Bm] could tell.
_ _ _ _ [Gbm] _
[Bm] Oh, something strange had happened there, [A] just what I did not [Bm] know.
John believed a miracle, [A] but I just turned to [Bm] go.
[Em] Circumstance and speculation
couldn't lift me [Bm] very high because I'd seen them crucify him.
[A] _ And then I saw [Bm] him die back _ _ _ _ inside the house again.
[A] The guilt and anguish [Bm] came. _
Everything I'd promised him [A] just added to my [Bm] shame.
When [Em] at last it came to choices, I _ [Bm] knew his name.
So even if he was alive, _ [A] _
it could never [Bm] be the same. _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] Then suddenly the air was filled with [Bb] a strange and sweet [Cm] perfume.
[Bb] [Cm] Life that came from [Bb] everywhere, drove shadows from the [Cm] room.
[Fm] Then Jesus stood before me with his eye _
[Cm] _ and I fell down on my knees and I just [Bb] clung to him [Cm] _ and cried. _ _
_ _ [Eb] Oh, but [Cm] then he raised me to my feet.
[Bb] And as I looked into his [Cm] eyes,
love was shining out from him [Eb] like sunlight from [Cm] the skies. _
[Fm] Guilt and my confusion
disappeared in sweet [Cm] release.
_ And every fear I'd ever had
_ _ [Ebm] _ [Bb] just melted into _
[C] _ _ _ peace.
Oh, _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] oh, _
_ _ [F] _ _ [C] he's alive.
[Eb] He's alive.
Oh, [Bb] he's alive.
And I'm forgiven.
[F] Heaven's gates are open wide.
[C] He's alive. _
[Eb] He's alive.
Oh, [Bb] he's alive.
And I'm forgiven.
[F] Heaven's gates are open wide.
[C] _ _ _ [Dm] [Eb] He's alive.
_ [Bb] _ And I'm forgiven.
[F] Heaven's gates are open wide.
[C] He's alive.
_ _ [Eb] He's alive.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
Oh, [D] he's alive.
[C] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [C] _ He's _ [Eb]
alive.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [C] _ Oh, he's alive.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _