You Started This — Nashville Number Chart
Key: F# major   |   80 BPM   |   4/4
5=C#  6m=Ebm  1=F#  2m=Abm  3m=Bbm  4=B
Public domain (CC0). Transcribed from the audio — verify by ear.
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[Intro (a cappella / one soft Tele + space, hushed and close)]
  1 1 4    (Mm... it's late, just You and me,)
  4 1 1 4 4    (and I'm too tired to be who I'm tryin' to be.)
  6m 5 4 4 1    (I keep on reachin' for the parts I can't fix —)
  1 4 4 6m 5    (so I'm layin' it down, layin' it all in Your hands.)

[Verse 1 (warm clean Tele + soft snaps, laid-back behind the beat)]
  4 4 2m 5    (I woke up tired of tryin' to be enough,)
  1 1 3m    (chasin' some version of me I couldn't love.)
  3m 6m 6m 4 4    (So I laid it down — got nothin' left to prove —)
  1 1 4 4 6m    (and in the quiet, I can still feel You in the room.)
  5 4 4 2m    (I don't have to fix these broken parts alone;)
  5 2m 5 1    (You started somethin' good — You won't leave it half-grown.)

[Chorus (the sing-along hook, soft harmony layers)]
  1 3m 3m    (You started this, and You'll finish it,)
  6m 6m 4 4 1    (I'm the work of Your hands, You won't quit on it.)
  1 3m 3m 5    (Your mercy runs on, oh it never ends —)
  5 4 4    (You started this, and You'll finish it.)

[Verse 2 (groove settles in, bass rounds out)]
  1 1 1 3m    (I used to think that grace was mine to earn,)
  6m 6m 6m    (countin' up my failures, waitin' on my turn.)
  5 5 5 6m 6m    (But You don't love me for the good that I could do —)
  5 4 1 1 1    (these are Your hands, and I'm the work You're seein' through.)
  1 6m 6m 4    (I'm still in progress, not yet who I'll be,)
  4 6m 1 1 4    (but You don't give up — You just keep holdin' me.)

[Chorus]
  4 1 1    (You started this, and You'll finish it,)
  4 4 6m 5 4    (I'm the work of Your hands, You won't quit on it.)
  4 1 1 4    (Your mercy runs on, oh it never ends —)
  4 6m 5    (You started this, and You'll finish it.)

[Bridge (strips back, then swells — the heart of it)]
  4 4 2m 5    (You won't walk away, no, You won't walk away)
  1 1 3m    (from the good that You began.)
  3m 6m 6m    (And You won't forsake the work)
  4 4 1    (that was shaped by Your own two hands.)
  1 4 4    (I don't have to finish me —)
  6m 5    (I'm bein' finished by You.)
  4 4 2m    (I'm not done yet, but I'm not afraid,)
  5 2m 5    ('cause Your mercy's gonna carry me through.)

[Final Chorus (fullest, warm gang-harmony on the hook)]
  1 1 3m    (You started this, and You'll finish it,)
  3m 6m 6m 4 4    (I'm the work of Your hands, You won't quit on it.)
  1 1 3m 3m    (Your mercy runs on, oh it never ends —)
  5 5 4    (You started this, and You'll finish it.)

[Outro (winds down to voice + one warm Tele, at rest)]
  4 1 1    (So finish it, Lord, finish it —)
  1 3m 6m 6m    (take Your time, I trust Your hands with it.)
  6m 5    (You started this...)
  5 5    (and You'll finish it.)