Only Word Left Is Glory — Nashville Number Chart Key: Eb major | 84 BPM | 4/4 6m=Cm 1=Eb 3m=Gm 4=Ab 5=Bb Public domain (CC0). Transcribed from the audio — verify by ear. ================================================== [Intro (a cappella, dead-dry, no groove yet — lone voice holds the word, soft answer way behind the beat)] 1 (Glory...) 6m ((glory...)) 4 5 1 6m (I turned to look, and there was more —) 4 (Glory...) 5 1 ((everyone cries it — Glory!)) [Verse 1 (lone lead, way behind the beat, loose acoustic + slow banjo, upright bass lopin' behind, dirty electric hummin' low)] 3m 4 5 1 6m (No preacher had to say it, no page had to be read —) 4 5 1 6m (the heavens been preachin' since before the light was spread;) 4 5 1 (mornin' to mornin', no word and no sound,) 6m 4 5 (His handiwork hollerin' all the sky around.) 1 3m 4 5 (And I ain't even started, and I'm already undone...) [Pre-Chorus (mandolin/fiddle drift in, soft clap on the lazy backbeat, funk bass struts but stays behind)] 1 6m 4 5 1 ('Cause every time I look, there's a little more of Him —) 6m 4 5 1 (higher than I can climb, wider than I can hold;) 6m 4 5 1 3m (I run clean out of language 'fore I halfway begin —) 4 5 1 6m (so here it comes... here it comes... here it comes...) [Chorus (full band eases in but stays LAID-BACK, slow soulful sway, dirty electric lazy off the beat, funk slow, warm gang vocals, call-and-response)] 4 5 (Glory... glory... (Glory!)) 1 6m 4 5 1 (I keep on lookin' and I'm runnin' out of words —) 6m 4 5 (the only word left is Glory.) [Chorus (turn to the King)] 1 3m (Glory... glory...) 4 5 1 6m 4 (from the skies to the shore to the throne to the Name —) 5 1 6m (King of glory, all of it is You.) [Verse 2 (pull WAY back, half-time, most spacious, hushed and awestruck, draggin' behind the beat)] 4 5 1 ((let Your glory cover the earth)) 6m 4 5 (How excellent Your name in all the earth,) 1 3m 4 5 (Your glory hung higher than the heavens' worth —) 1 6m 4 5 1 (and who is little man that You'd even call his name,) 6m 4 5 1 (yet You crown us with a little of the same.) 6m 4 5 1 (Robed in the light like a garment thrown wide,) 3m 4 5 1 (clouds for a chariot, the wind at Your side —) 6m 4 5 1 6m (and I can't take it in, Lord, I can't take it in...) [Bridge (strip nearly bare, slow heavy stomp + soft clap way behind the beat, dirty guitar swellin' like a tide, leader-and-all call-and-response, room only answers the one word)] 4 5 1 (Who is this King of glory? — (Glory!)) 6m 4 5 (the Lord, strong and mighty — (Glory!)) 1 3m 4 5 (they speak of the glory of Your kingdom — (Glory!)) 1 6m 4 (everlasting, and it will not fall — (Glory!)) 5 1 6m (declare it to the nations — (Glory!)) 4 5 1 (fire and the mountains meltin' like wax) 6m 4 5 1 3m ('cause the more of You I see, the less I've got to say...) [Turn (the one word)] 4 5 1 6m 4 (so I fall on the one word — the only word — and I'll sing it all the way:) [Final Chorus (band leans in full and warm but STAYS in the deep slow pocket — no key jump, no speed-up, just wider and heavier)] 5 1 (Glory... (glory...) glory...) 6m 4 5 1 6m (I quit tryin' to name it, I'm all out of words —) 4 5 1 (the only word left is Glory.) [Final Chorus (be exalted)] 3m 4 ((Glory...) glory...) 5 1 6m 4 (be exalted, O God, above the heavens high —) 5 1 6m (let Your glory cover the earth.) [Vamp (cover the earth)] 4 5 (Cover the earth...) 1 6m (Cover all of the earth...) 4 5 (Cover all of the earth...) 1 3m (Cover all of the earth...) 4 5 (Cover All, Glory) [Tag (still more of Him)] 1 6m 4 5 (still more of Him than I could ever say —) 1 6m 4 (King of glory, all of it is You.) [Outro (instruments fall away, back to the bare dead-dry a cappella, lone voice holds the word, one last banjo note decays into silence)] 5 (Glory...) 1 ((glory...)) 6m (Glory...) 4 5 1 3m (still more of Him than I could ever say —) 4 (Glory...) 5 1 ((the only word left...)) 6m 4 5 1 (King of glory. All of it is You. Amen.)