The King Appears (Pop) — Nashville Number Chart
Key: Bb major (with key modulations toward the climaxes)   |   84 BPM   |   4/4
2m=Cm  3m=Dm  4=Eb  5=F  6m=Gm  b7=Ab  1=Bb
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[Intro (solo grand piano, rubato -- single female voice, barely above a whisper)]
  1 1    (Oh... after all the waiting...)
  4 1 2m 1    (after all the silent years -- behold, He came.)

[Verse 1 (intimate -- female lead over gentle piano, pp)]
  1 4 1    (Long we held the ancient promise,)
  1 5 1 1    (a word we could not touch and could not see;)
  5 4 1    (He had sworn His faithful mercy,)
  1 1 5    (a covenant that heaven vowed to keep.)
  1 5 6m    (And He never let the promise fall--)
  4 2m 5    (so lift your weary head, and look:)

[Pre-Chorus 1 (strings breathe in, the pulse begins to rise)]
  5 5    (He remembered mercy,)
  1 4    (He remembered truth;)
  2m 5 1    (every word He swore to Israel)
  1 6m 4    (is standing here -- the living proof.)

[Chorus (the reveal opens up -- lead soars, gospel choir shadows underneath)]
  1 1 1    (Lift your eyes -- the King appears!)
  3m 1 5    (the hope of all our waiting years;)
  1 4 4    (salvation shown for every eye to see,)
  1 1 4    (in open sight of all the world--)
  1 5 4 1    (now the ends, all the ends of the earth)
  1 1 5    (have seen the salvation of our God!)
  2m 5 6m    (So lift the sound, let the nations hear:)
  5 1 2m    (behold, behold -- the King appears!)

[Verse 2 (warmer, fuller -- piano + strings, the witness widens to the nations)]
  5 5 1    (He has made it known to strangers,)
  4 1 2m    (to the far, the foreign, and the lost;)
  5 1 6m    (what the prophets saw in glimpses,)
  1 4 1 1    (now the whole wide earth is rising to behold.)
  6m 4 1    (From the islands to the desert,)
  1 1 4    (every distant shore will see Him now--)

[Pre-Chorus 2 (higher, faster than the first -- claps and kick gathering)]
  1 4    (He remembered mercy,)
  1 6m    (He kept His every vow;)
  1 4 4    (all that Israel ached and waited for)
  1 2m 2m    (is breaking open -- here and now:)

[Chorus (bigger -- full band under the lead)]
  1 4 5    (Lift your eyes -- the King appears!)
  1 6m 3m    (the hope of all our waiting years;)
  b7 1 1    (salvation shown for every eye to see,)
  6m 4 5    (in open sight of all the world--)
  4 5 4 1    (now the ends, all the ends of the earth)
  4 1 4    (have seen the salvation of our God!)
  4 5 1    (So lift the sound, let the nations hear:)
  4 4 1    (behold, behold -- the King appears!)

[Bridge (KEY CHANGE UP -- full gospel choir + orchestra, call-and-response, the joyful noise -- Ps 98:4)]
  1 1 1    (Make a joyful noise, all the earth!)
  4 1    ((Sing! Sing!) lift it higher!)
  2m 1    (Every tribe and every tongue,)
  1 4    (join the everlasting choir!)
  1 1 5    (Make a joyful noise, all the earth--)
  1 1    (let the whole creation ring:)
  5 4 1    (the salvation of our God has come,)
  1 1    (so sing, sing, sing!)

[Final Chorus (everything at full -- choir + strings + timpani + bells; lead ad-libbing over the top)]
  5 1 5    (Lift your eyes -- the King appears!)
  6m 4 2m    (the hope of all our waiting years;)
  5 5 5    (salvation shown for every eye to see,)
  1 4 2m    (in open sight of all the world--)
  5 1 1 6m    (now the ends, all the ends of the earth)
  4 1 1    (have seen the salvation of our God!)
  1 3m 1    (So lift the sound, let the nations hear:)
  5 1 4    (behold, behold -- the King appears!)

[Tag (the choir falls away -- lead alone, back to the piano, hushed and sure)]
  4 1 1    (The ends of the earth have seen...)
  4 1    (behold... the King appears.)