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