Too Simple To Be True

Music and lyrics by John Bisset

Chords for performance in the key of E:

E Esus4 B7 ^{(listen for F# in bass or open high E string variations)}

A Am ^{(Am alternating from A to C on the A string)}

Intro: E Esus4 E Esus4

Chorus

B⁷

It seemed too simple to be true

A E

It seemed too simple to be true

A E

That the job’s already done

B⁷ E

That the victory’s already won

B⁷

Yes I believed in God above

A E

And knew he was a God of love

A B⁷

But that the ransom’s paid for my sins too

A E Esus4

Seemed too simple to be true

Verse 1

E Am E Am

Simple for me, to put my faith, in the cross

E Am E Am

Simplicity, bought at such a terrible cost

E Am E Am

God become man, despised and rejected by his own

E Am E Am

Facing, the hatred and torture and death all alone

E Am E Am

“It is finished”, he cried out right at the end

E Am E

What the sin of Adam wrought, put right again

Chorus

Verse 2

Simple to see, now that I’m looking, in the right place

Romans to Philemon, the Pauline gospel of grace

So recently, full of fear and anger and misery

Living condemned by a doctrine never intended for me

Such a relief, not to be a lost sheep, of Israel

So happy to be just a Gentile who got off the highway to hell

Chorus

Verse 3

If you’re like me, you may die ‘fore you see, the scriptures afresh

Who is this Paul anyway, he never met Christ in the flesh?

But was it not, the flesh on the cross, a blood sacrifice?

And was not Saul, transformed into Paul, by the risen Christ?

A Pharisee hunting down Christians, a Roman, what a CV

So is he not the perfect apostle for someone like me?

Chorus

Outro: E Esus4 E