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Words & Music: Michael W. Smith and Brent Bourgeois
My life is like a racing car hurtling towards the wall
At the speed of sound
My time has been so finely tuned
But I've never seen a human being so tightly wound
At times it seems beyond belief
I just need a bit of relief
Like a war-weary soldier
Marching up and over the edge
Take my hand and pull me up cause I'm falling too fast
Somehow I've lost my way - I'm cryin' save me
Chorus
Can you hear me...I'm calling out
I'm crying out...a cry for love
I can feel you...you're touching me
You healing me...my cry for love
I will be the first to admit
I don't have the strength to handle it alone anymore
I don't have to fret, don't have to explain
All my worrying's in vain
I'm not alone anymore
Why is this so hard to believe
What is mine is mine to freely receive
Like the changing of seasons
This is the beauty of the word
And for all that I have seen and heard
Oh I want to come home
Somehow I'll make my way - my way home to you
Chorus
Bridge:
Oh Father hear my call (Oh Father hear my call)
I know you'll catch me when I fall
Oh Father hear my call
I know you'll catch me when I fall
Oh I pray that you'll hold me now
Hold me
And take my fear away
I'm cryin' save me
Oh I know that you can hear me
Hear me crying out for love
Oh I know that you can feel my cry for love...ooh...
I can feel you - you're calling out
You're crying out - a cry for love
I can feel you - you're touching me
You're healing me - my cry for love
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Words & Music: Michael W. Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick
Wasn't it long ago
Wasn't it on a New England coast
Wasn't it the standard - people praying to
The Son and the Father and the Holy Ghost
One nation over God
Is that what we've now become?
The founding fathers left a noble legacy
To their sons and daughters
To their sons and daughters
Look at what we've done
Look at what we've done
Chorus:
Breakdown, breakdown, breakdown
As we learn to bite the hand
That tries to feed us
Breakdown, breakdown, breakdown
If we say that we are free
Who will believe us
If we breakdown, breakdown, breakdown
Breakdown, break
See the powder on the glass
See the pillow on the street
See the charter of a modern love
With no obligations...or promises to meet
Hear the fear of disease
Hear the baby never born
Hear a people crying out
"Somebody save us - oh, please somebody save us
From what we're headed for - from what we're headed for"
Chorus
Breakdown, breakdown, breakdown
As we learn to bite the hand
That tries to feed us
Breakdown, breakdown, breakdown
Chorus
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Lyrics: traditional
Music: Michael W. Smith
Our Father, which art in Heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Our Father, which art in Heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Thy Kingdom come
Thy Will be done
On Earth as it is in Heaven
Our Father, which art in Heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Hallowed be thy name
Our Father, which art in Heaven
Our Father
Hallowed be thy name
Hallowed be thy name
Thy Kingdom come
Thy Will be done
On Earth as it is in Heaven
Give us this day
Our daily bread
And forgive us our debts
As we forgive our debtors
Our Father, which art in Heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Our Father, which art in Heaven
Hallowed be thy name
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us, deliver us from evil
For Thine is the Kingdom, and all the power
And the glory
Forever Amen
Our Father, which art in Heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Thy Kingdom come
Thy Will be done
On Earth as it is in Heaven
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Words & Music: Michael W. Smith and Brent Bourgeois
When I'm down when my soul's in need of rest
Come your words of comfort and of hope
I see your face always smiling back at me
A stream of light shining straight to the heart
Child of God, child of light
There'll be no more lonely nights
Cause you have brightened up my life
There's a road that leads me to this place
A path of love running straight to the heart
Over the years I've learned one important thing
It's that real friends shall never truly be apart
You were there in my darkest time of need
With a hand reaching straight to the heart
Child of God, child of light
There'll be no more lonely nights
Cause you have brightened up my life
Take this gift, it is all I have to give
A prayer of love forever straight to the heart
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Words & Music:Michael W. Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick
Sexual harassment - nuclear reactors
Natural disasters from here to L.A.
Drug importers
New World Order
Wars over borders
Murder on the subway
The social classes - high rise of taxes
Diplomats are passive with a promise again
Talk of recession - people in depression
Dow Jones, bank loans, the Japanese yen
Chorus 1:
I wait for Kingdom come
When love will be here to stay
It will change us everyone
Someday, someday
Violence in the movies
Drive-by shootings
Rioting and looting
With the boys in the hood
Cults and religions
Deadly premonitions
Fiery oppositions
Evil battling good
AIDS awareness
Temporary marriage
Pro-life, pro-choice
Roe v Wade
Ethics and the media
Tabloid T.V.
The Kennedy Conspiracy
The Trial of O.J.
Chorus 2:
I wait for Kingdom come
When love will be here to stay
It will change us everyone
Someday, someday
There peace will make a stand
and the anger will fall away
We'll see the lion with the lamb
Someday, someday, someday
Chorus 2
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Words & Music: Michael W. Smith and Bob Farrell
Hey boy - did you find out
Whatcha had to know - 'n what it's all about
When you started to move - just a step at a time
You never wanted to fall
You took a chance on the wild side
Hey, girl - can'tcha come down
Are ya way at the top - afraid of somethin' you found
Then you try to go back - not as easy to do
Did you find who you are
From a dance on the wild side
I know sometimes it's hard for you
To keep your feet upon the path that you've chosen
It's not for you to walk alone
Together we can take this road where it's going - hang on
Chorus 1:
Stand by me - stand right here
The time has come to say it clear
Now don't give up - but don't give in
We will stand together to the end
And I'll be around - I'll be around, yeah
No joke - the sooner you find
It happens all the same - for every mother's child
when you walk in the dark - then you stumble and fall
It's a part of it all
When we dance on the wild side
But everybody needs someone
Who loves 'em through the toughest times - while they're growing - yah
Who keeps a candle burning
When the darkness covers up the path where they're going - hang on
Chorus 2:
Stand by me - stand right here
The time has come to say it clear
Now don't give up - don't give in
We will stand together to the end
And I'll be around - come what may
Heaven hears us when we pray
So don't give up - but don't give in
We will stand together to the end
I will be there, my good friend
And I'll be around
Be around, I'll be around...
I'll walk this road with you
wherever it may wind
And I'll be around
Chorus 2
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Words & Music: Michael W. Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick
Wandering the road of desperate life
Aimlessly beneath the barren sky
Leave it to me
I'll lead you home
So afraid that you will not be found
It won't be long before your sun goes down
Just leave it to me
I'll lead you home
Chorus:
Hear me calling
Hear me calling
Just leave it to me - I'll lead you home
A troubled mind and a doubter's heart
You wonder how you ever got this far
Leave it to me, I'll lead you home
Vultures of darkness ate the crumbs you left
And you got no way to retrace your steps
Just leave it to me
I'll lead you home
Chorus 2:
Hear me calling
Hear me calling
You're lost and alone
Leave it to me
I'll lead you home
Chorus 2
So let it go and turn it over to
The one who chose to give his life for you
Leave it to me
I'll lead you home
So let it go and turn it over to
The one who chose to give his life for you
Just leave it to me
I'll lead you home
Leave it to me
I'll lead you home
Chorus 2
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Words & Music: Michael W. Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick
If they were to write about
The story of my life
They would have to mention you
With every page they'd write
There's another side to every story told
If I were the ocean
You would be the shore
And one without the other one
Would be needing something more
We are the shadow and the light
Chorus:
Always love me
(And) never leave me now
(And) now you are the other side of me
Always love me
(And) never leave me now
(And) now you are the other side of me
I have known the emptiness
Of feeling out of touch
And living life without you here
Would be living half as much
Cause I've a need that only you can fill
If love was mathematical
You'd understand the sum
to the heart's equation
Where one and one makes one
And lonely equals me minus you
Chorus
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Words & Music: Michael W. Smith & Wayne Kirkpatrick
You breathe in me
And I'm alive
With the power of your holiness
You breathe in me
And you revive
Feelings in my soul
That I have laid to rest
Chorus:
So breathe in me
I need you now
I've never felt so dead within
So breathe in me
Maybe somehow
You can breathe new life
In me again
I used to be
so sensitive
To the light that leads
to where you are
Now I've acquired
These callouses
With the darkness of
A cold and jaded heart
Chorus
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Words & Music: Michael W. Smith & Wayne Kirkpatrick
Maybe there's a light in my soul
Maybe it flickers like a neon sign outside an abandoned hotel
Maybe there are things you just can't know
But can you say there are no mysteries in the house you choose to dwell
Maybe we are entertaining angels unaware
Maybe there's a place where we will fly
But some say God is dead like Nietzsche said and faith has made me a fool
But maybe there is more than meets the eye
Who's that stranger there beside you? Don't be smug and don't be cruel
Maybe we are entertaining angels unaware
Battles of the heart and of the mind
We stay caught in mental purgatory 'til our existence can be defined
Meanwhile on the shores of parallel
There may be a holy conference held somewhere discussing all mankind
Maybe we are entertaining angels unaware
I say maybe we are entertaining angels unaware
Angels unaware
Soaring, somewhere, longing, reaching
Searching, knowing, loving, caring
Let me take you by the hand
Lead you to the promised land
And trust Him with your heart
He'll lead you home
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Words & Music: Michael W. Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick
Chorus:
Calling heaven
Seeking mercy
Tell me there's a place for these
What of the children who have never felt a love
Tender as the morning
Nursing the bruises
And the scars that never seem to go away
What of the babies who have never left the womb
Breathing in the lifeline
Angels in waiting
Gone before they could be given wings to fly
Chorus
What of the noble who are searching for the truth
With truest of intentions
And yet they're jaded by
Hypocrisies behind cathedral walls
What of the humble and the meek that knew despair
And never got their moment
But sacrificed a life of comfort
So that others knew no pain
Chorus
What of the ones who call you Lord
But play the field
with faithless indecision
Forgive us father for we truly
Do not know what we have done
Chorus
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Words & Music: Michael W. Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick
I was throwin' away what I needed most
It was the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost
A little carnal knowledge is a dangerous thing
It'll eat a hole in the brain
I'd be the biggest fool in the whole universe
To trade a heavenly blessing for a worldly curse
I was a weaker man 'til I made my stand
Now I am here to make a change
Chorus:
I'm running blind on the wheels of faith
(I'm) moving to the beat of a heart that prays
(And) hangin' on every word you said
I get a little stronger every day
Ain't ganna find any help on the T.V.
Or written down on the pages of People Magazine
It takes digging a little deeper into the Good Book now
For a little sacred advice...oh yah
Chorus
Bridge:
Gettin' strong, a stronger now, every day
Gettin' strong, a stronger now, every day
I'm getting stronger
Chorus
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Musical Adaptation: Michael W. Smith
Crown Him with many crowns,
The lamb upon the throne:
Hark! How the heav'nly anthem drowns
All Music but its own!
Awake, my soul, and sing
Of Him who died for thee,
And hail him as thy matchless King
Thru all eternity.
Crown Him with many crowns
Crown Him with many crowns
Crown Him the Lord of Heav'n:
One with the Father known.
One with the Spirit thru Him giv'n
From yonder glorious throne.
To Thee be endless praise.
For Thou hast died for me;
Be Thou, O Lord, thru endless days
Adored and magnified
Adored and magnified
Crown Him with many crowns
His glories now we sing,
Who died and rose on high,
Who died eternal life to bring
And...lives that death may die.
Crown Him with many crowns
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Words & Music: Michael W. Smith, David Mullen, and Sam Mullins
I walked this road
So very long ago
To show the way
So you would know
I walked the road
With holes in my hands in feet
To make the way
Come follow me
Chorus:
No, you are not alone
You will be free indeed
The journey begins and ends
With me
One million miles
It starts with a step or two
What are you waiting for?
I'm waiting for you
You run the race
Thinking you've almost won
Then you may find
You've only begun
You're on the road
Thinking you're far from here
And suddenly find
You're very near
Chorus
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