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

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