Bend Joseph

{name: 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 {name: 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 {name: 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 {name: 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