Mercy Came Running
Phillips, Craig, and Dean
Miscellaneous
Mercy Came Running
Once there was a holy place
Evidence of God's embrace;
I can almost see mercy's face
Pressed against the veil.
Looking down with longing eyes-
Mercy must have realized
Once His blood was sacrificed
Freedom would prevail.
And as the sky grew dark
And the Earth began to shake-
With justice no longer in the way...
Mercy came arunnin'
Like a prisoner set free
Passed all my failures
To the point of my need.
When the sin that I carried
Was all I could see;
And when I could not reach mercy
Mercy came arunnin' to me.
Once there was a broken law-
We're too human from the start-
Though the years left it torn apart
The hope would set me free.
Walls I never meant to build
Left this prisoner unfulfilled
And freedom called out- even still-
Seemed so far away.
I was bound by the chains
From the wages of my sin
Just when I felt like giving in...
Mercy came arunnin'
Like a prisoner set free
Passed all my failures
To the point of my need.
When the sin that I carried
Was all I could see;
And when I could not reach mercy
Mercy came arunnin' to me.
Sometimes I still feel so far-
So far from where I really should be-
He gently calls to my heart
Just to remind me...
Mercy came arunnin'
Like a prisoner set free
Passed all my failures
To the point of my need.
When the sin that I carried
Was all I could see;
And when I could not reach mercy
Mercy came arunnin' to me.