Chords for The Alisa Turner Story

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Music has always been such a big part of [F] my life.
There's always been a song in my heart that I needed to sing.
[C] I started writing songs when I was around 12, 13 years old.
[G] I never really grew up _ envisioning sitting on a [Am] stage with people in front of me, but
I absolutely fell in love with [F] the passion in music and the way you can [Em] relate to [C] others
through telling stories.
I love to tell stories, so telling stories through music.
[G] My dad was a worship pastor, so I grew up always in the [Am] worship music world and watching
him lead worship and learning what [F] worship music was and who we were worshipping.
He was such a [C] big encourager of me chasing my passion and my dream.
[G] So those dreams throughout the years kind of led me to Nashville.
I [Am] spent about a year there, chasing after it and leaving demos at [F] doorsteps.
One [C] day I got a phone call and it was unknown.
[G] They asked me if I was a relative of Ross Turner.
It was [Am] hours after that that I finally found out my dad had passed away.
It was [F] a sudden heart attack, absolutely out of nowhere.
It [C] was such a dark period of my life, but music was still such [G] a strong desire in my
heart, so it just kept pulling me forward.
[Am] So I chased it.
I packed my blue Honda [F] CRV and spent about eight years out on the road touring around,
[C] playing and singing songs and sharing stories for absolutely anybody [G] that would give me
the time of day.
But it got to a point where I was starting to do [Dm] some shows and I'd be on [C] stage and
all of a sudden my [G] memory, I was having some memory problems.
I couldn't remember my songs as well.
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My speech was getting really [C] slurred.
But it got to a point where [F] I couldn't function anymore.
I couldn't think very well.
[Dm] So I finally went home [C] and that last trip [G] home I stayed for a number of [Am] years.
I ended up bedridden for [Dm] a really long time.
[C] My muscles atrophied.
I [F] could no longer walk.
I couldn't swallow.
I had a feeding tube.
[Am] I had seizures.
I found out I had Lyme disease.
Spent [F] another six or seven years on every kind of IV [C]
treatment protocol that there possibly is.
The Lord was [G] very quiet during that time.
So it's like in those seasons [Am] I just have to hold so tight to what I know that He [F] doesn't
ever leave and that He loves and that it's [C] forever.
Finally some of the treatments that we were doing started to work [G] and my body would bounce
back and I finally started [Am] to get back out on the road a bit and do what I love to do
and connect with [F] people and sing and hear their stories.
I met my husband [C] out on the road.
We got married and about a year into marriage [G] we got pregnant.
Which was a huge surprise because we had been [Am] told I couldn't get pregnant.
And then right around our 12 week [F] ultrasound I was laying there and I remember looking
at the doctor [C] and I just remember his face going white.
He said, [G] your son has a birth defect and that it's [Am] absolutely fatal.
There's nothing that can be done about it.
[F] We carried him about 34, [C] 35 weeks.
They did a C-section.
I [G] remember the way it felt to have him sit on my chest.
And [Am] I remember they said that his breathing was getting labored.
So [F] I kind of knew.
[G] So I just remember whispering [C] to him, if you're ready to go, you can go now.
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Again music played such a [Cm] constant role in that.
It was such a way for [Eb] me to process so much [F] emotion [Ab] and grief.
It really has always felt [Cm] like a gift that the Lord brought me.
I think he knew I was going [F] to need it to get through all [Ab] of that.
Throughout [Cm] that first year or so [Bb]
I was going [A] out on the road and still doing [F] singer-songwriter
storytelling, lots [Ab] of house shows.
And for so many years I [Abm] prayed, Lord please open these doors, please open these doors,
[Cm] I'm working hard.
And it was just [Bb] a change in my prayer and I said, Lord, [A]
whatever door you open, [Ab] I'll walk through.
_ [Cm] It's kind of scary because you don't [Eb] know what's about to [F] happen.
But to [Ab] share songs about my faith [Cm] and about the [Bb] Lord and _ [F] just saying thank you for all
He's done, it's an [Ab] incredible honor to me as well as it's a huge [Abm] responsibility for me.
But he asked me to show [Eb] up.
He asked me to do this and I said yes.
[Gm] So I've just kept showing up.
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_ [Fm] _ _ _ [Eb] I'm so happy.
You're a peace in the [Bb] fire.
You're a walking [Ab] dream.
This is my prayer now.
[Abm] _ This is my prayer for [Eb] you. _ _
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_ [Ab] _ For you.
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