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#mE
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
VerseA
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:
AE
Oh, Does fate resign us too?
F#m
Find shelter for our wounds
D
Beneath the battered roof of broken dreams
AE
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 ) EmDAE
Oh, oh, oh
F#m
These are different leaves, you know
DAE
Oh, oh, oh
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