Once there was a holy place Evidence of God's Embrace And I can alost see Mercy's face Pressed against the way Looking down with loving eyes Mercy must have realized That once His blood was sacrifised Freedom would prevail And as the sky grew dark And the earth began to shake Justice no longer in the way Mercy came running Like a prisoner set free Past all my failures To the point of my need And 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 to human from the start And all the years left you torn apart Hopeless and afraid Walls I never meant to build Left this prisoner unfulfilled Freedom called but even still It seems so far away I was bound by the chains Of the wages of my sin And just when I felt like giving in. Ohhhh 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 When I could not reach mercy Mercy came running to me Sometimes I still feel so far {So far from were I really should be yeah} He gently calls to my heart Just to remind me Mercy came running Like a prisoner set free Past all my failures To the point of my need And the sin that I carried Was all I could see When I could not reach the mercy Mercy came running to me Like a prisoner set free Past all my failures To the point of my need And the sin that I carried Was all I could see When I could not reach mercy Mercy came running to me Mercy came running to me