Tono: C
Introducción:
C
I am not my family tree
F
These are different leaves, you know
Am
There are miles and miles between
G
My roots and what I'm tryin' to grow
C
I am not the slave they sold
F
Nor am I royalty
Am G
worn them both The finest coat,
C
And rags that barely covered me
Am
But there's mercy in the soil
F
Mercy in the sun
C
Learnin' to forgive
G
What cannot be undone
Am
What was meant to harm
F
Can't harm you in the end
C
Stepped out on a limb I thought my break
G
But love said,
Am F
It will only bend
C G
It will only bend
C
I am not my past mistakes
F
Labeled by some place in time
Am
Nor am I a trophy case
G
Tryin' to maintain my shine
C
I have dreamed a thousand dreams
F
Watch a grain in famine grow
Am
I am not my family tree
G
I have branches of my own
C G
Oh, Does fate resign us too?
Am
Find shelter for our wounds
F
Beneath the battered roof of broken dreams
C G
Oh, But I will choose to stand
Am
In the shadow of Your hand
F
And see what grows when grace has sown the seed
F C G
Oh, oh, oh
Am
These are different leaves, you know
F C G
Oh, oh, oh