I'm Not Alone

[Verso 1]
 (You could play verse 1 in Rings) 
Em 
I hit the floor somewhere around November 
     D 
In a way I don't quite wanna remember 
           C 
Pulled the blinds and let the days blur past 
                              D 
Thought this darkness was too deep to last 

            Em 
The kind of hurt that lives behind your ribs 
              D 
The kind that takes more than a man can give 
      C 
To himself when he's running on empty 
              D 
I thought the silence meant that God had left me 

    Em 
But then I heard a knock upon my door 
       D 
Voices said I ain't leaving, that's what friends are for 
              C 
And something cracked inside my chest that day 
         D 
Like the first light through the clouds after the grey 
 


[Refrão]
 (I do start with a Beat) 
         Em 
I'm not alone, even when it felt like I was 
D 
  I'm not alone 
           C 
There were hands reaching through the dark 
             D 
Because they loved me when I couldn't love myself 
     Em 
They carried me when I had nothing left 
         D 
I'm not alone God was in the quiet all along 
    C 
I'm not alone He was there in every person, every song 
D 
  He found me at exactly the right time 
Em 
  Every call, every prayer, every sign 
     D 
That somebody somewhere still had me in mind 
    C              D 
I'm not alone, I'm not alone 
 


[Verso 2]
 (You could play RINGS) 
Em 
Mama drove three hours without asking why 
     D 
Just showed up with food and held me while I cried 
       C 
Didn't try to fix it, didn't say be strong 
     D 
Just sat beside me and she stayed all night long 

   Em 
My friend called every day for thirty days 
       D 
Didn't push, just said I'm here in quiet ways 
    C 
And somewhere in the middle of their love 
  D 
I started feeling something from above 
     Em 
Like grace was working through the people near me 
     D 
Like God was speaking through whoever'd hear me 
            C 
Through the ones who showed up, stayed and prayed 
            D 
Through the ones who loved me through my darkest days 
 


[Refrão]
 (I do start with a Beat) 
         Em 
I'm not alone, even when it felt like I was 
D 
  I'm not alone 
           C 
There were hands reaching through the dark 
             D 
Because they loved me when I couldn't love myself 
     Em 
They carried me when I had nothing left 
         D 
I'm not alone God was in the quiet all along 
    C 
I'm not alone He was there in every person, every song 
D 
  He found me at exactly the right time 
Em 
  Every call, every prayer, every sign 
     D 
That somebody somewhere still had me in mind 
    C              D 
I'm not alone, I'm not alone 
 


[Ponte]
 
      Em 
And I won't pretend the heartbreak wasn't real 
         G 
Won't pretend I know exactly how to heal 
      C 
Won't stand here like the valley wasn't low 
               D 
Because it was   and that's just something that I know 

      Em 
But I also know that in the lowest place 
       G 
I have ever been I still felt grace 
        C 
Not the kind that takes the pain away at once 
        D 
But the kind that sits beside you in the months 
 


[Verso 3]
 
          Em 
Of slow recovery, of learning how to breathe 
   D 
Of finding out what you actually believe 
          C 
About yourself, about the world, about tomorrow 
         D 
There is mercy in the middle of the sorrow 

        Em 
And the people God put in my corner 
                D 
Lord, I don't deserve that kind of love 
                                C 
But I'm floored by the way they showed up 
                                  D 
Stayed and chose to be the light,   inside the dark I chose 
 


[Refrão]
 (Start On Cue) 
         Em 
I'm not alone I know that now in ways I never did 
         D 
I'm not alone And to every broken soul who's hit in the skids 
C 
You are not alone. Neither, I promise you 
          D 
There are people who will love you through 

             Em 
The worst of it, the bottom of it, the fear 
          D 
There are hands that will hold you God is here 
    C                        D 
I'm not alone, He never left my side 

         Em                D 
I'm not alone, love was my guide 
              C 
Through the depression and the heartbreak 
                         D 
And the loss through the nights 
                                     C 
I didn't think I'd make it across to morning 
              D 
But I did and here I stand 

Ending 
     C          D          C          D 
Not alone, not alone, not alone, not alone 
        D 
With my people and my God held in loving hands 
            Em 
There was a night I thought nobody knew 
       D 
Nobody cared, nobody was coming 
C       D 
  I was wrong about all three God knew 
Em          D 
  God cared   and God sent everybody I needed 
G          D 
  Right on time 
         Em   D                 C 
I'm not alone   and neither are you