AMAZING GRACE gone prog rock

This is a progressive rock reimagining of Amazing Grace, blending the timeless hymn with shifting time signatures, dynamic builds, and modern rock textures. The familiar melody is stretched and reshaped through extended instrumental passages, unexpected harmonic turns, and dramatic contrasts between quiet reflection and full-band intensity. The goal isn’t novelty for its own sake, but to explore how an ancient song of redemption can still speak with weight, tension, and release in a modern musical language.

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed

Chorus (original)
Grace has found me where I am
Lifted me from sinking sand
Every road that led me here
Was held by love, not fear
I am free, I am restored
By the mercy of the Lord

Through many dangers, toils, and snares
I have already come
’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far
And grace will lead me home

Chorus
Grace has found me where I am
Lifted me from sinking sand
Every road that led me here
Was held by love, not fear
I am free, I am restored
By the mercy of the Lord

When we’ve been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we first begun

Final Chorus (variation)
Grace has found me, grace will stay
Light to guide me all my days
From the first breath to the end
I am held by Christ my friend
I will sing forevermore
Of the mercy of the Lord