Phillips, Craig & Dean - Mercy Came Running Lyrics

Once there was a holy place
Evidence of God's embrace
And 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 running
Like a prisoner set free
And past 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 running to me

Once there was a broken heart
Way too human from the start
And all the years left it torn apart
Hopeless and afraid

Walls I never meant to build
Left this prisoner unfulfilled
Freedom called but even still
It 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 running
Like a prisoner set free
Past 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 running 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 running
Like a prisoner set free
And past 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 running to me

Mercy came running
Like a prisoner set free
And past 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 running to me

Mercy came running
Like a prisoner set free
And past 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