“I know this is not anything like you thought the story of your life was gonna be...but there's so much of the story that's still yet to unfold.” Few people know the pain and the promise in that statement better than Steven Curtis Chapman. The past few years have been an incredible journey that Chapman wouldn’t have chosen, yet has taught him so very much. Those lessons permeate every song on Chapman’s new album The Glorious Unfolding.
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I am re-tabbing this song because the one that Lisa originally tabbed is way off! So I have the correct chords for this song. I must give the credit to Dona Sherrill for figuring out some of the strange chords in this song. So here is the correct version.
GEmD 1. If I could only fly I’d go up GCG/B and look down from the sky Am7D so I could see the bigger picture GEmD and lord if I could sit with you at your feet GCG/BAm7D for an hour or two, I’m sure I’d ask too many questions CG/BAm7D/F cause there’s so much going on down here, G7susCmaj7 that I must confess I just don’t understand, D I don’t understand
G But I have prayed and at your feet my whole life BmCDEm has been laid, so I won’t worry I won’t be afraid CCmG cause my soul is resting on your higher ways. GBm So let the road ahead become unclear, CDEm oh I am yours so what have I to fear CCmG If my soul is resting on your higher ways. Ebmaj7Dm7G Chorus: Your Higher ways teach me to trust you Ebmaj7Dm7GAm7G/B Your higher ways are not like mine EmBm Your higher ways are the ways of a father, BbAmDG hiding his children in his love.
(hopefully you can figure out the rest because it is all the same as the other verses)
2. So let it rain and if my eyes grow dim with tears of pain, this hope I have will not be washed away, cause my soul is resting on your higher ways (does an instrumental and then repeats chorus)
3. someday I will fly and maybe then you will take me aside and show me the bigger picture but until I’m with you I’ll be here with a heart that is true, and a soul thats resting on your higher ways.