The Kingdom Has Already Come chords by Iris Dement

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
D Gm C F Bb

Verse 1:
  F              Bb
I stopped in the church to pray
      D7
It was the middle of the day
Db                                    Bb
And I don't even know if I believe in God
       G   F
But I laid my soul on the table
              Gm                    C7
And left that place believing I was able
   Bb            F              Eb              Cm F Bb
to pull back the curtain my old fears had drawn

Verse 2:
      F          Bb
I was out on the fourth of July
        D7                             Eb
when I saw those kids I just had to cry
                                          Bb
The whole town was blazing in the summers heat
                      F
But out in front of a row of run down shacks
              Gm             C7
they had that fire hydrant uncapped
Bb              F                     Eb         Cm Bb
Baptizing their bodies right there in the street

Chorus:
          Gm              Bb     Eb
There's a tree outside my window
              Bb         Gm
It sings when wind blows
                     Bb          Cm
I have got water and fire I know sorrow
       Eb
I feel desire
             Bb          F                     Eb  Cm F Bb
And could it be that the kingdom has already come

Verse 3:
F          Bb              D7                      Eb
We all see good and bad in everything that we have
                                     Bb
But life is waiting just behind that veil
             F
if this will be loved and that will be hated
    Gm                            C
The soul is left to struggle segregated
Bb             F                   Eb           Cm Bb
Trapped in the harbor too weighted down to sail

Chorus:
          Gm              Bb
There's a tree outside my window
Db            Bb
It sings when wind blows
Gm                 Bb
I've got water and fire
         Cm           Eb
I know sorrow I feel desire
             Bb          F             Gm         C7
Could it be that the kingdom has already come
             Bb          F               Bb       Eb  Bb
Could it be that the kingdom has already come