The Far Country
Words and music by Andrew Peterson & Ben Shive
(Hebrews 11:8-10, 11:13-16, Genesis 3:24, Romans 8:18-27)

        A
Father Abraham 
           A
Do you remember when
         D
You were called to a land
                      D
And didn’t know the way

                A
‘Cause we are wandering
       A
In a foreign land
         D
We are children of the
                 D
Promise of the faith

      F#m
And I long to find it
        E
Can you feel it, too?
         D
That the sun that’s shining

Is a shadow of the truth

          A              D
This is a far country, a far country
         A         D
Not my home

                   A
In the dark of the night
                A
I can feel the shadows all around me
    D                             D
Cold shadows in the corners of my heart

                     A
But the heart of the fight
              A
Is not in the flesh but in the spirit
        D                              D
And the spirit’s got me shaking in the dark

      F#m
And I long to go there
      E
I can feel the truth
      D
I can hear the promise
                     D
Of the angels of the moon


          A              D
This is a far country, a far country
         A         D
Not my home

                 F#m
I can see in the strip malls and the phone calls

The flaming swords of Eden
       D
In the fast cash and the news flash

And the horn blast of war
       G
In the sin-fraught cities of the dying and the dead
     Bm
Like steel-wrought graveyards where the wicked never rest
       F#m                             E
To the high and lonely mountain in the groaning wilderness
   D
We ache for what is lost
      Bm
As we wait for the holy God
          A            D
Of Father Abraham

      F#m     E
I was made to go there
            A            F#m
Out of this far country
      E           D
To my home, to my home

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