The Road The Rocks And The Weeds chords by John Mark McMillan

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: E

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
   E
Come down from the stars, show your human scars
 C#m/E            E
Tell me what it's like to believe
      A/E
Through my Christ haunted thoughts that the losses you bought
     C#m               B/D#
Are the nights that you peopled with your dreams
   A/E
Well, I've got no answers for heartbreaks or cancers
    C#m             E  B/D#
But a Savior who suffers them with me
    C#m    B      A      E
Singing goodbye, Olympus, the heart of my Maker
   A/F#        B            E
Is spread out on the road, the rocks, and the weeds


Verse 2:
   E
Come down from your mountain, your high-rise apartment
   C#m               E
And tell me of the God you know who bleeds
   F#m
And what to tell my daughter when she asks so many questions
    C#m               B
And I fail to fill her heaviness with peace
   A
When I've got no answers for hurt knees or cancers
   C#m             E  B/D#
But a Savior who suffers them with me
     C#m    B      A      E
Singing goodbye, Olympus, the heart of my Maker
    A/F#       B            E
Is spread out on the road, the rocks, and the weeds


Chorus:
  A               B
And Aphrodite would not weep, nor Zeus would suffer for the weak
  E                 A
But have you come to stand inside my pain?
  F#m                  B
And all the things I've begged you for, eternity and evermore
   E       B/D#       C#m
Are hidden with me here beneath the rain
   B
The rain


Instrumental:
C#m B A E A B E B
C#m B A E A B E


Verse 3:
  E
So shall I plant sequoias and revel in the soil
   E
Of a crop I know I'll never live to reap?
   B   C#m     B      A       B
Then sow my body to my Maker, and my heart unto my savior
   A         B           E
And spread me on the road, the rocks, and the weeds
  A       B
Spread me on the road

E