Pretty amazing grace    (video)    (intro)

 

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1. Pretty amazing grace is what you showed me,

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    pretty amazing grace is who you are.

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    I was an empty vessel, you filled me up inside,

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    and with amazing grace restored my pride.

 

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2. Pretty amazing grace is how you saved me,

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    and with amazing grace, reclaimed my heart.

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    Love in the midst of chaos, calm in the heat of war,

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    showed with amazing grace what love was for.  - - -

 

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    You forgave my insensitivity

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    and my attempt to then mislead you.

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    You stood beside a wretch like me,

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    your pretty amazing grace,      was all I needed.

 

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3. Stumbled inside the doorway of your chapel,

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    humbled and awed by everything I found.

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    Beauty and love surround me, freed me from what I feared

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    asked for amazing grace, and you appeared.   - - -

 

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    You overcame my loss of hope and faith,

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    gave me a truth I could believe in.

 

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    You led me to a higher place,

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    showed your amazing grace,      when grace was what I needed.

 

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4. Look in a mirror, I see your reflection,

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    open a book you live on every page.

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   I fall and you’re there to lift me, you share every road I climb,

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    and with amazing grace you ease my mind.  - - -

 

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    I came to you with empty pockets first,

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    when I returned I was a rich man.

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    Didn’t believe love could quench my thirst,

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    but with amazing grace,       you showed me that it can.

 

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5. In your amazing grace I had a vision,

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    from that amazing place, I came to be.

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    Into the night I wandered, wandering aimlessly,

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    found your amazing grace to comfort me.

 

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+ Pretty amazing, pretty amazing !  (4x)              - - -

 

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    You overcame my loss of hope and faith,

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    gave me a truth I could believe in

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    you led me to that higher place

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    showed me that love and truth and hope and grace    - - -

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    were all I needed !

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (Neil Diamond)