Chords for Steven Curtis Chapman - Free (Live Acoustic)

I had an opportunity a few years ago to walk through a prison up [Eb] in Michigan with a man named Chuck Colson who is
in a large way responsible for what we're doing here tonight [Cm] began the Ministry of Prison Fellowship and
Starting line which grew out of that [Eb] and I met a man walking through death row cell block
Spent a little time talking to him and after I left that [Ebm] prison that day a few [F] months later
I wrote this song about my [E] experience there, and I [Ebm] pray that it'll encourage you guys to
Hear probably more so than anyone else who can appreciate and identify with the message of the [Eb] song
_ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] Sun was beating down inside
The walls of stone and razor [Eb] wire as we made our way across [Bb] the prison yard
I [Cm]
felt my heart begin to race [Ab] as we drew nearer to the [Eb] place
Where they say the death is [Bb] waiting in the dark _ _
[C] Slamming doors [Cm] of iron echoed through the halls _
[C] Where the spirit holds life within its [D] cruel claws
[G] _
[Cm] Then I met a man whose face
[Ab] Seemed so strangely out of place [Eb] a blinding light of hope was [Bb] shining in his eyes _
_ [Cm] With repentance in his voice
[Ab] Told me of his tragic choice, but let him [Eb] to this place [Bb] where he must pay the price
[C] But then his voice grew strong as he began to tell
_ [Cm] About the one he said had [G] rescued him from hell.
You [Eb] said I'm free
[Bb] _ _ [Cm] I've been forgiven
[Eb] God's grace is broken [Bb] all my chains [Cm] and given me these wings and [Ab] I'm free
_ [Bb] _ [Cm] And the freedom I've been given
[Eb] Something that not even death [Bb] can take away from me [Cm] because I'm free
[Ab] _
_ Jesus [Eb] set me free
_ [Bb] _
_ _ [Cm] So we said a prayer and said goodbye [Ab] and tears begin to fill my [Eb] eyes
as I stepped back out [Bb] into the
blinding Sun [Cm] and
Even as I drove away
[Ab] I found that I could not escape [Eb] the way he spoke of what the [Bb] grace of God had done
_ [Ab] Thought about how sin [Cm] has sentenced all of us to die
[C] How God gave his only [G] son so you and I [Eb] could say I'm free
[Bb] _ [Cm] Oh
_ _ _ [Eb] God's grace is broken all our [Cm] chains given us these wings [Ab] and we're free
[Bb] _ [Cm] And the freedom we've been given
[Eb] Something that not even death [Bb] can take away from me [Eb] because I am free _ _
_ _ _ [G] And if the Sun has set you free Oh if the Sun has set you [Eb] free then you are really free
You are really free
[G] And if the Sun has set you free Oh if the Sun has set you free
[Eb] Then you are free really really free
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Cm] We have been forgiven
[Eb] God's grace is broken all our [Cm] chains given us these wings [Eb] and we're free
[Bb] Yeah, [Cm] and the freedom we've been given
[Eb] Something that not even death [Bb] can take from you and me because [Eb] we're free
[Bb] Yeah
[Cm] The freedom we've been given
[Eb] There's something that not even there [Bb] can take from you and me
No, [Eb] this is something that [Ab] not even there [Bb] take from you and me
Oh, [Eb] this is something that not even there [Bb] take from you and me
He's Jesus
_ [Eb]
Free Free
_ _ We are free
_ _ _ Jesus set us free
_ _ _ We are free
_ _ We _ are free _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _